“Born in Paris of an Ivory Coast father
and a Moroccan-Spanish mother, Laïka was raised mainly by women (her
grandmother, mother, and aunt) in a Moroccan Jewish family. She leans
towards her maternal Sephardic culture, open to different styles of
music in the Mediterranean.” (MySpace) And as Malcom McLaren has sung:
“Jazz is Paris, and Paris is jazz”, not quite surprisingly, Laïka got
her inspiration from artists as Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Shirley Horn, Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln. She collaborated with Sixun, Julien
Lourau, Steve Williams, Antoine Roney, Michael Bowie, David El Malek,
Richard Galliano, Toot Thielemans, Robert Glasper, Gregory Hutchinson,
Peter Martin, Daryl Hall, Vince Benedetti and Claude Bolling’s big band.
Laïka has also taken to the stage of theaters in a different guise,
quite seriously and played in Claude Lelouch’s film “Hasards ou
Coïncidences”. Leader of her quintet, Laïka bring back to us some of the
shining and the perfume of the classic jazz, this “Nebula” taste like a
good old record from the 40s.
11 tracks, nice pieces from a time that
seems has dawn long-long time ago. It’s like a 20 years old whiskey in a
quiet bar wrapped in discrete smoke on a Wednesday evening.
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