P o l y M o r p h o s i s [Urban jazz trip] is a patchwork made of jazz, soul, funk, gospel, organised

on the basis of themes composed by CLaude EVence JAnssens, blended with variations on jazz

standards, paraphrases of J.S.Bach and influences of various blues guitar players, groovy bass

players and funky drummers, with the contribution of singers and instrumentalists gathered around

the project.

A surprising interpenetrations game where standards themes take unexpected forms over the

variations which they are subjected and depending on the new harmonic context in which they

appear. The whole thing is overhanging a groovy background tinged with jungle-jazz and brass band

tones.

About the composer:

Claude Evence Janssens is a Belgian composer, but also instrumentalist, graduated in musicology.

He composes mainly for ensembles and groups that he creates according to his various projects,

which do not belong to jazz in particular but to crossings which relate to urban jazz, electro-jazz,

world-jazz, and in general what one could call a 'shifted jazz', although always close to roots. Due to

the lyrical expressiveness that dominates his compositions, Claude Evence readily qualifies his music

as narrative, cinematographic or scenographic.