Jazzman - January 2000 -
Francisco Cruz - France
"From
Nancy (where they are based) to Japan, the Briegel Brothers plays
"party-poopers", confirming they are the top of the Lorraine iceberg as
regards of general public jazz. In a rather festive register, the music of
this combo eyes willingly towards funk dynamics and Caribbean rhythms..."
Est Républicain -
06/08/99 - Jean-Paul Germonville - France
"The
flamboyant jazz of the Briegel leaves a large part and space to
improvisation. Once again, the audience is invited to a journey fulfilled
with groove and a change of scenery guaranteed. From the flamenco accents of
"Mas Cabanis" to the "jumpy" Mister Freshy, this music doesn't need to over
do to exist. With a large part left for improvisation, definitely funk
accents, the BBB builds over a bed of strings an impressive palette of
ambiances that talks without useless "détours" to our senses. The
spontaneity of the writing cannot leave anyone indifferent. This music has
for itself its subtle suggestivity."
Républicain Lorrain -
06/03/99 - France
"The
very homogeneous band uses the sophistication of jazz and the simplicity
inherited from rock to transcend its fusional message. The lyrical sax of
Philippe Leclerc and the immediate rhythmical efficiency of the pair J.M.
Robin (drums) and Yvon Susini (percussions) taking care of the rest.
Nathanaël and Cyrille Briegel have assimilated what they learned with major
artists in Los Angeles and have obviously found a convenient formula that
just might reconcile a very large audience with modern jazz, sorry for the
purists".
Jazzman - June 1999 - Renaud Czarnes - France
"The
band succeeds in the tough bet that is to express himself into that binary
jazz - attention, here is the word: Fusion - without making reference to the
"jazz fusion furious", neither to the apathetic of "easy listening". No demo
solos, but a very tight band whose influences (funk, Latin, etc…) are as
many different colored touches that stains each composition without making
it fall into one style or another..."
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