Listen to the 2011 vintage of Château Palmer and its Alter Ego, interpreted by Giovanni Mirabassi, Glenn Ferris and Flavio Boltro, on TSF JAZZ Radio and on the Web.
Friday, March 23, 2012, from 7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m., the concert will be broadcasted live, in its entirety from the Château Palmer website and TSF JAZZ Radio.
Château Palmer and jazz : A common philosophy
Like Château Palmer, jazz has deep roots, with a long history that has undergone many influences and inspirations and, while traditional, is always open to innovation. This respect for tradition is constantly enhanced by expanding its limits—while remaining faithful to its roots.
Jazz is a blend of tradition and innovation, memory and improvisation, listening and dialogue. Wine is the same, combining terroir, climate, grape varieties, science, and technology. However, creating fine wine also takes inspiration, good taste, expertise, and an excellent memory that ties everything together. That is how great wines are made.
JAZZ in PALMER 2012
As a preview to the En Primeur tastings, the 3rd edition of Jazz at Château Palmer will take place on Friday, March 23, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
In March of 2010, Château Palmer invited the jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson to improvise, during a private concert, on the 2009 vintage. In 2011, Château Palmer hosted the clarinetist Michel Portal and the pianist Yaron Herman. The first interpreted Château Palmer 2010, the second Alter Ego 2010.
This year, on the eve of the En Primeur tastings in Bordeaux, Château Palmer will host the AIR trio, featuring the pianist Giovanni Mirabassi, the trombonist Glenn Ferris and the trumpeter Flavio Boltro. During two days, the jazzmen will walk through the vineyards, guided by Thomas Duroux, who will initiate them into the secrets of each plot.They will taste, in advance, the 2011 vintage, starting with the wines made from each individual vineyard plot, then the final blends of Alter Ego and Château Palmer
Imbued with their sensations, the three jazzmen will have time to imagine the mood, the musical world inspired by the wines. These three great musicians will deliver the substance of the 2011 vintage, its originality and nuances. A new form of “Tasting notes," in a unique interpretation.
The AIR trio:
Three great artists fuse together to create the heart of the AIR trio. Born in 2003, the compilation won the Album of the Year award from the Jazz Academy.
Giovanni Mirabassi began playing piano when he was two years old, at his family home in Perugia. “I had my first five lessons when I was sixteen years old, and at twenty-two, I had my last five." Clearly Giovanni Mirabassi is the free radical of piano, fully independent, never holding back from discovering the less travelled roads of jazz, with such brilliant selflessness, liberty! Among the many roads he likes to venture down, Giovanni Mirabassi, in his famous albums, Avanti! and Adelante!, takes on revolutionary hymns, Cuban rhythms, South American songs, or even French libertarian tunes, giving fervent and hot versions.
Glenn Ferris has been the face of the trombone since the sixties. As a kid in Hollywood, born into a family of musicians, he attended a concert at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and fell in love with the trombone. He has made the brassy instrument shine its brightest, over a long career where he has played with the masters—Don Ellis, Frank Zappa and his legendary Grand Wazoo Big Band, then the Mothers of Invention, full of memorable moments on the recording Imaginary Diseases (2006), Stevie Wonder, Tony Scott and many others. In 1970, he formed the Celebration Orchestra: the king's share going to his eclectic traveling trombone. While living in France in 1982, he shared his talents at universities, which didn't stop him from traveling around the world. He has played and recorded with Michel Petrucciani, Martial Solal, Michel Portal and the National Jazz Orchestra, all the greats. Listening to X Actimo, recorded in 2006, refined and spontaneous, is invigorating.
Flavio Boltro. His instrument? The trumpet. This discreet man and gifted blower, brilliant and voluble musician, is one of the most influential soloists on the European scène. Exceptional technique, a master of harmony, as expressive as a lead as when accompanying, he composes original music, always energetic, rich with multiple influences. Throughout their tours, his quartet has shown exceptional cohesion and energy. In quintet with the Italian saxophonist Rosario Giuliani, he recorded the album Anything Else (2009). Since 2007, he has been playing beside the very popular Italian singer Gino Paoli who brings together jazz musicians, their greatest hits compiled in the album Milestones, un incontro in jazz. Flavio Boltro's quintet, Sidewinder (in homage to Lee Morgan), has been very successful in the jazz scene.
Two fine wines: Château Palmer and Alter Ego
Château Palmer is a classified Grand cru in the Margaux appellation, 55 hectares of gravely soil on the banks of the Gironde. Château Palmer was purchased in 1814 by an Englishman, General Palmer, then was the property of the Pereire brothers, who built the château and created the village, where the winery is today. Since 1938, it has been the property of wine merchant families of Dutch and English origin. Thomas Duroux, winemaker and agronomist, has been directing the estate since 2004.
Château Palmer is an elegant wine, combining the inestimably smooth texture of silk and the nobility of leather. Its bouquet is a rare complexity of fruit, flowers and spices, with a fleshy and generous structure.
Alter Ego is the other wine of Château Palmer. A more contemporary interpretation, from the same sheet of music, as in jazz, the same terroir and vines. A spontaneous wine, true to itself, full and elegant, superb.
Friday, March 23, 2012, from 7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m., the concert will be broadcasted live, in its entirety from the Château Palmer website and TSF JAZZ Radio.
Château Palmer and jazz : A common philosophy
Like Château Palmer, jazz has deep roots, with a long history that has undergone many influences and inspirations and, while traditional, is always open to innovation. This respect for tradition is constantly enhanced by expanding its limits—while remaining faithful to its roots.
Jazz is a blend of tradition and innovation, memory and improvisation, listening and dialogue. Wine is the same, combining terroir, climate, grape varieties, science, and technology. However, creating fine wine also takes inspiration, good taste, expertise, and an excellent memory that ties everything together. That is how great wines are made.
JAZZ in PALMER 2012
As a preview to the En Primeur tastings, the 3rd edition of Jazz at Château Palmer will take place on Friday, March 23, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
In March of 2010, Château Palmer invited the jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson to improvise, during a private concert, on the 2009 vintage. In 2011, Château Palmer hosted the clarinetist Michel Portal and the pianist Yaron Herman. The first interpreted Château Palmer 2010, the second Alter Ego 2010.
This year, on the eve of the En Primeur tastings in Bordeaux, Château Palmer will host the AIR trio, featuring the pianist Giovanni Mirabassi, the trombonist Glenn Ferris and the trumpeter Flavio Boltro. During two days, the jazzmen will walk through the vineyards, guided by Thomas Duroux, who will initiate them into the secrets of each plot.They will taste, in advance, the 2011 vintage, starting with the wines made from each individual vineyard plot, then the final blends of Alter Ego and Château Palmer
Imbued with their sensations, the three jazzmen will have time to imagine the mood, the musical world inspired by the wines. These three great musicians will deliver the substance of the 2011 vintage, its originality and nuances. A new form of “Tasting notes," in a unique interpretation.
The AIR trio:
Three great artists fuse together to create the heart of the AIR trio. Born in 2003, the compilation won the Album of the Year award from the Jazz Academy.
Giovanni Mirabassi began playing piano when he was two years old, at his family home in Perugia. “I had my first five lessons when I was sixteen years old, and at twenty-two, I had my last five." Clearly Giovanni Mirabassi is the free radical of piano, fully independent, never holding back from discovering the less travelled roads of jazz, with such brilliant selflessness, liberty! Among the many roads he likes to venture down, Giovanni Mirabassi, in his famous albums, Avanti! and Adelante!, takes on revolutionary hymns, Cuban rhythms, South American songs, or even French libertarian tunes, giving fervent and hot versions.
Glenn Ferris has been the face of the trombone since the sixties. As a kid in Hollywood, born into a family of musicians, he attended a concert at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and fell in love with the trombone. He has made the brassy instrument shine its brightest, over a long career where he has played with the masters—Don Ellis, Frank Zappa and his legendary Grand Wazoo Big Band, then the Mothers of Invention, full of memorable moments on the recording Imaginary Diseases (2006), Stevie Wonder, Tony Scott and many others. In 1970, he formed the Celebration Orchestra: the king's share going to his eclectic traveling trombone. While living in France in 1982, he shared his talents at universities, which didn't stop him from traveling around the world. He has played and recorded with Michel Petrucciani, Martial Solal, Michel Portal and the National Jazz Orchestra, all the greats. Listening to X Actimo, recorded in 2006, refined and spontaneous, is invigorating.
Flavio Boltro. His instrument? The trumpet. This discreet man and gifted blower, brilliant and voluble musician, is one of the most influential soloists on the European scène. Exceptional technique, a master of harmony, as expressive as a lead as when accompanying, he composes original music, always energetic, rich with multiple influences. Throughout their tours, his quartet has shown exceptional cohesion and energy. In quintet with the Italian saxophonist Rosario Giuliani, he recorded the album Anything Else (2009). Since 2007, he has been playing beside the very popular Italian singer Gino Paoli who brings together jazz musicians, their greatest hits compiled in the album Milestones, un incontro in jazz. Flavio Boltro's quintet, Sidewinder (in homage to Lee Morgan), has been very successful in the jazz scene.
Two fine wines: Château Palmer and Alter Ego
Château Palmer is a classified Grand cru in the Margaux appellation, 55 hectares of gravely soil on the banks of the Gironde. Château Palmer was purchased in 1814 by an Englishman, General Palmer, then was the property of the Pereire brothers, who built the château and created the village, where the winery is today. Since 1938, it has been the property of wine merchant families of Dutch and English origin. Thomas Duroux, winemaker and agronomist, has been directing the estate since 2004.
Château Palmer is an elegant wine, combining the inestimably smooth texture of silk and the nobility of leather. Its bouquet is a rare complexity of fruit, flowers and spices, with a fleshy and generous structure.
Alter Ego is the other wine of Château Palmer. A more contemporary interpretation, from the same sheet of music, as in jazz, the same terroir and vines. A spontaneous wine, true to itself, full and elegant, superb.
