Hélène Labarrière - Puzzle (2025)

Double bassist Hélène Labarrière created PUZZLE on stage in March 2022: three years later, the recording made at WMStudio in Bringolo is released on the Jazzdor Series label, and will be the subject of a release concert at the 17th Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin festival in June 2025. Puzzle is a game of patience made up of irregularly cut pieces that have to be assembled to form a whole. Five small pieces were composed by Hélène Labarrière, then developed by musician friends (François Corneloup, Marc Ducret, Sylvain Kassap, Jacky Molard, Dominique Pifarely) to be transformed, arranged, recomposed, decomposed and made to grow. For each of these pieces, a great emancipating and inspiring figure forms the backdrop (Jane Avril, Angela Davis, Emma Goldman, Louise Michel and Thérèse Clerc). To play this puzzle on stage, five musicians: Catherine Delaunay (clarinet), Robin Fincker (saxophone), Stéphane Bartelt (guitar), Simon Goubert (drums) and Hélène Labarrière (double bass). Loyalties and novelties, women’s stories and the memory of jazz in all its freedom, irregularities and irreverences.

Tracklist
01 - Babayagas
02 - Free Angela!
03 - Vivre sa vie
04 - Jane
05 - A travers la vie
06 - Souvenir