Soul Voyage / Various - Soul Voyage [CD]

Today, the jazz fan can look back on one hundred years of jazz history, the first recordings reaching back to 1917 with the original Dixieland Jazz Band. In jazz, some profit and some play, giving into creative reexploration, a movement that began in the 80s with neo-boppers. Here, the five members of Soul Voyage opted for a certain simplicity, avoiding the acrobatic melodies of bebop. Soul jazz, as they see it, looked for the freshness and efficiency found in gospel and blues as opposed to the hard bop of the fifties. It's greatest period, from 1960 until 1975, featured such musicians as the Hammond B3 king Jimmy Smith, Horace Silver, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lou Donaldson, John Patton, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Grant Green and the Adderly Brothers among others. Soul Voyage have known each other for quite a while, Michel Mainil and Antoine Cirri on one side and Olivier Poumay and Vincent Romain on the other. It simply took the addition of the not quite 30 year old Maxine Moynaerts to create a warm and nostalgic music destined for those who remember this period of jazz history. It is, however, not simply a copy/paste, for the compositions are originals.