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After a break of over three years, Original Gros Bonnet, or OGB to its friends, launches the first of 3 triptych-like EPs on November 15. On Friday and Saturday at the new Espace Transmission, the band is back in the saddle, offering a variety of moods, from quasi-free jazz to jazzy hip-hop mixed with trap. Since its arrival on the Montreal scene, OGB has distinguished itself not only for the virtuosity and groove of its instrumentalists, but also for its beatmaking, rap and jazzified trap, as well as for the eloquence and literary qualities of its rap. From 2017 to 2021, OGB released the Original Gros Bonnet EP ( 2017), the Volume 1 album (2018), the Fruit Jazz EP ( 2018) and the Tous les jours printemps album ( 2021), before retiring to pursue various individual projects, including Franky Fade’s solo album, Contradiction (2021). Here we are in 2024, the time has come for a new chapter for OGB, and its members have taken up the mantle and cobbled together a big door for us to walk through. Welcome to Jazz Bangereux evenings! For PAN M 360, Alain Brunet met them virtually.
