Under this aquatic title, three musicians – Kimihiro Yasaka, piano, Louis-Philippe Bonin, saxophone, and David Therrien Brongo, percussion – explore as many themes of the Japanese cultural imagination: the mystical aspect of nature, temporality, and the notion of movement. The music will of course take on the colours of Asia and will include works from the repertoire as well as a piece created especially for the occasion by Montreal-based composer of Japanese descent, Keiko Devaux.
Leaf is a Montreal jazz quartet. After the release of an eponymous, self-produced album in September 2017, the ensemble returns to the stage to offer a modern, melodic, consonant, harmonically rich kind of jazz that draws from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, with a light, contemporary touch. At least, that’s one gets from a recording released two and a half years ago. Things may have changed…
