New SPACE

Check out my new place:http://www.myspace.com/cyrilguiraud, u could be one of my first 20 friends........

WITH SANDRA

THE LUCY DIXON

I Miss MY Friends

TROP FORTS CES AMERICAINS !!

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Art Tatum !!

Ultra JAzz

AMERICAN REVOLUTION !

Jak and Jill (situldi & saspouré)

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STICK & TEUSH

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Fromage de Femme

A la demande générale j' ai repris les recherches sur mon projet révolutionnaire de "Fromage de Femme"™, ça avance bon train et je pense pouvoir produire les premiers exemplaires dans les mois qui viennent. J'attend les premiers investisseurs potentiels de pied ferme . A bon entendeur....

New Mouth

After some painfull teeth surgery!! I am back in the loop. I will be playing with Andre Sumelius on drums and Lorenzo Farrell on bass, at Bacar , Saturday feb 18th. Working on some new mixes at FM Recorders for the upcoming album .....

Si vous etes francophones et que votre humeur n'est pas au beau fixe, allez donc vous entrainer a rire chez JP Tronic, c'est un ami il vous fera un prix si vous venez de ma part.

Keep The Menuet Alive

C'est a la demande express de la Deutsche Grammophon et afin de relancer la carriere somnolente de quelqu'uns de ses artistes ( Jean Sebastien Bach, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Ludwig van Beethoven...) que le sieur Booster se produira demain Mercredi 25 Janvier au Tryptic a Paris. Accompagné de la fine fleur des restoreurs de réputation (Julien Tekeyan (drums), Guillaume Farley (bass), François Faure (keys), Guillaume Dutrieux (trompette), Simon Andrieux (trombonne), Yann Jankielewicz (sax), Sandra N Kake), il tentera l'impossible pari de revisiter quelqu'une des oeuvres majeurs du répertoire mondial. Maximum défi me dirait vous..., certes oui mais c 'est Booster quand meme....
Quant a moi je pratique le jazz et le bateau a voile....."Homme libre, toujours tu chériras la mer."

Finnish Connection

Those Finnish are everywhere.... I will play with my quartet , featuring Aki Rissanen (from Finland) on piano, Andre Sumelius on drums and David Ewell on bass. Come and check us out at Cafe Royale , Wednesday, January 18th . We'll play jazz , jazz and jazz. In case you miss it ( who knows..) I'll play with my "American" quartet Fryday, Feb 3rd at the Red Poppy Art House.

See you there.

Back in Business

en 2006:
Le dernier The MOst sortira sous peu sur le label FM Recorders , Zdong se reforme, Lucy Dixon sort son premier album, les victoires nautiques vont s'enchainer, les tournées mondiales aussi, ça va etre pénible.... Je fonce, j'ai seance dans 1/2 heure pour l'album de David Michel Ruddy avec David Ewell, Justin Brown, Howard Wiley et Ambrose Akinmusire (de retour de tournée avec Herbie Hancock)..... aplus.

DATA

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Booster+NUsens

Echanges de bons procédés Mercredi 21 decembre au Tryptique, Booster se produit å nouveau , ce coup ci avec Nils Nusens comme guest star.
Sa risque de se poser la . C'est gratuit. C'est en vrai. C'est Noel.....

The Link

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Froid dans le dos

Le gouverneur de Californie Arnold Schwarzenegger a refusé sa grâce au condamné à mort Stanley "Tookie" Williams, qui sera donc exécuté comme prévu dans la nuit de lundi à mardi près de San Francisco.

Major Events

We are playing tomorrow, Dec 8th at Zebulon's lounge with the quartet (Andre Sumelius on drums, David Michel-Ruddy on piano and Josh Harry on bass). It's in Petaluma at 9 pm.

L'incroyable Bo Bun Brass Band se produit en concert exceptionnel samedi 10 dec, c'est å la Generale, 10 rue du general Lasalle, metro Belleville, a Paris en France. Les festivites commencent å 18 h, amusez vous bien...

Allez chez Sandra, c'est trop bien expliqué...

Recording

I'll be recording with my trio (Andre Sumelius and David Ewell), Dec 1st at FM recorders. I'll post the music next week. I am still writing for the recording .....,. The pasts gigs have been great , the Santana crew showed up the other day at Deluxe , we had an incredible jam ......I'm currently working on 26-2 (Coltrane) mixing it with Confirmation (Charly Parker)....

BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FLOOD

Crawford, Texas -- A tragic flood this morning destroyed the personal libraryof President George W. Bush.
The flood began in the presidential bathroom, where both of the books were kept.
Both of his books have been lost.
A presidential spokesman said the president was devastated, as he had almost finished coloring the second one.
The White House tried to call FEMA, but there was no answer.

Fast and Furious

Pre Holiday Regata results as reported by Mitch Wells and Fredrik Wallenberg.

Many songs will be written about Flexi's wild rides over these two
days. However the result speaks for itself:

3 - 1 - 1 - 2 for an overall 1!!

It took 10 of us to crew the boat over the course of the regatta, and pull this one off. A true team effort . Flexi cooperated and didn't break (much). It is personally very satisfying to
beat tough boats that are closer in rating to us.

Michael Farrell, famous Berkley maritime attorney, successfully represented us and received kudos from the race committe chairman for his defense of
the hostile, unjustified protest Saturday. Micheal scared the protesters so much they decided to watch football Sunday instead of racing. He and Kathleen blockaded the marina in on Lassie, just in case.

Although Cyril tried his best he could not hit anyone rounding marks on Sunday, or even at the start.

GiG

I am playing tomorrow Nov 17th at Club Deluxe in San Francisco at 9:00 pm with Howard Wiley on drums and Josh Harry on bass. We'll play jazz, jazz and jazz.

Music from The Most

Melo (Aknin)

Cyril Guiraud: sax tenor /Alexandre Hiele : Bass /David Aknin : drums
Recorded at the Big House in Chambourcy, from "the most expensive band in the world" album.

Back in the Days (Hiele/Guiraud)

Cyril Guiraud: alto sax /Alexandre Hiele : Bass /David Aknin : drums/Charly Amadou : turnatables.
Recorded and mixed at Albert's in Paris, from the "white" album.

Camisole (Hiele)

Cyril Guiraud: tenor sax /Alexandre Hiele : Bass /David Aknin : drums/Charly Amadou : turnatables.
Recorded live at Le Triton in Paris, Mixed by Christophe Marais at Recall Studio, from the "white" album

Last Week Report

Great time we had with Simon & Familly, on a fait la visite de 500 Frisco et alentours avec force restos, panoramas et autres spécialités californienne. Splendid concert with my trio (Andre Sumelius and David Ewell) at Cafe Royale last wednesday, we are playing thursday (Nov 17th) at Club Deluxe and we'll go in studio to record in december. We did quite well (2nd and first) in the first week end of the midwinters series in Berkeley, we'll race the Pre-Holiday Regatta next week end.


Simon et Chill sont sur un bateau.....

Lucy Dixon

Chek out Lucy Dixon , amazing dancer/singer from Stomp. I recently worked with her on her upcoming album. She was in concert at China Club in Paris. The album will be soon released. I'll keep her news posted....

Do U Like JAzz ?

I will be playing in San Francisco at Cafe Royale with my trio ( Andre Sumelius on drums and David Ewell on bass) Nov 9th and with my quartet (same rythm section with David MichelRuddy on piano) at Club Deluxe Nov 10th. Come and chek us out....

Unforgiving Laws of Yachting

Last weekend races in the San Francisco Bay as reported by Mitch Wells...

The boys came in overall 3rd on Saturday's 3 races The fleet rated close in PHRF 99 wers . It came down to one rounding, they had a halyard
problem and late douse. Cost them first in the race, and first in the series.

Sunday we had the usual difference of opinion regarding selection of the course direction. It was Cyril and I running the show. We eventually agreed to round counter clockwise (my original plan and assessment) 85 % of the fleet followed the same plan. In reading others opinions on the internet regarding the race even the professionals on some of these crews differ in opinion. :-)

There was good wind at the start, but practically shut off about 5 minutes off the starting line putting us in the deep water channel NE of Angel Island against the ebb. The rest of the fleet stalled badlyThanksfully, Flexi,cue to Cyrils excellent driving, was able to move in light wind, and against the ebb (still 2 hours from max ebb) . We were near the front of the counter clockwise rounders, but the clockwise rounders definitely enjoyed better, air and were clearly ahead.

The theory was of course to sail to Racoon Strait, crossing the deep water channel and the ebb off Richmond at the start . Hopefully, avoid the "no air parking lot" of the year before in Racoon Strait, and instead, ride the 1.0-1.7 ebb expected quickly thru the strait, then reach with clear air across the slot, and the ebb very fast with max power. We executed our tacks extremely well, and were able to lay the bouy at PT BLUNT perfectly without tacking.


There was not as much current set from the ebb as I expected going across the slot to Alcatraz and our perfect tack allowed us to lay Alactraz Buoy and set
the kite in good breeze ,still near the front of the counter clockwise rounders.

After some confused, swirling air behind Alcatraz we were reacning for Richmond and the finsih. The race is going much faster than scheduled due to the good air 9-14 kts, so
I believed we were still not in the teeth of the max ebb condition. The differential between GPS and boat speed concurred we were taking half the number. The boat was fast, we stayed away from the back of Angel and the constant doldrums there and headed out of the deep channel for the Berkeley Circle shallows and the Southampton Shoal.

The wind seemed better where we were sailing and we were ahead , although some boats were working closer in shore by a hudred yards or more, presumably for current relief.
THEN the wind really shut off where we were 1.5 miles from the finish. 75 boats passed us from clockwise and counter clockwise. I now know there is a permanent dead spot off Richmond. We were only 2 miles or less from the actual finish. Not knowing that little bit of local knowledge suckered us in. There was no signs of reduced pressure to indicate this was a fatal move.

So, the wind shutting off initially put us out of contention overall ,and one mistake by virtue of missing local knowledge sabotaged an otherwise well sailed race. The #1 recut
was a success, the boat is fast again and points well.

Old School/New School

Two versions of My ship: the first one is a duo with Lucy Dixon recorded at the Big House in France, the second one is a remix by Booster also using Out There by The Most. I like both...

Booster en concert

Parisiens, Parisiennes...
Fautes de pouvoir venir m'ecouter a San Francisco, foncez en masse au concert sensationnel de Booster (l'homme qui n'a peur de rien), au Tryptique , le 26 Octobre.
Sa risque bien de vous ravir..
en plus je crois que c'est gratuit.
Genuflexions Circonstancielles
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I love Bossa Nova

This track was recorded in Paris last June, it is part of the JP Tronic project...

Cyril Guiraud "American" Quartet

Instant Karma, recorded in San Francisco, featuring Howard Wiley on Tenor, Andre Sumelius on drums, Josh Holdridge on bass and David Michel-Ruddy on piano, recorded by Mike Walti and mixed by Miikka Huttunen in Helsinki !

I'll post the rest of the recording very soon.

The Most

recorded at the Little House in France, featuring Alex Hiele on bass, David Aknin on drums, Thomas Gromaire on guitar and Charly Amadou on turntables, I took care of the rest, chek out the reviews posted on garageband.com...

On this playlist you can listen to : 1/Ifif, 2/affreux Jojo, 3/ Asb, 4/ Le Reggae du Chasseur, 5/ Out there...
To be continued...

Nils Nusens

Pour les Parisiens potentiels il y a du funk viking de premier ordre demain dimanche a partir de 18h au Cannibale 93, rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, vous pourrais y entendre et y voir un certain Nils Nusens ( a l'organe vocal fort developpé) ainsi que Thomas Gromaire (guitariste potentiellement excellent) et Jay Goldon , ainsi que Perplex, le groupe dont la reputation n'est plus a faire....

Wild Wild West

I am currently playing around the Bay Area with the quartet featuring Andre Sumelius on drums, David Michel-Ruddy on piano and David Ewell on bass, you can chek us out at Zebulonslounge, at Club Deluxe, at Jupiter , we'll be performing with the trio at Cafe Royale next month and in duo at Downtown.
We will record again Nov 7th (I need to write more music.....).
Howard Wiley recorded with us last may , huge sound, amazing craft.......
Sameer Gupta came by the other day to record some crazy tablas on one on the last The Most song, was great......I need to put The Most on the road in France and here......
I'll be playing the sessions as regularly as possible: Pearls on sundays after the Jazzschool and before Dylan's (busy day), I usually sit in on wednesdays and saturdays at the cheeseboard in Berkeley.

I'll be missing Booster's gig in Paris at the Tryptique and Lucy Dixon's concert at China Club... too bad , could not make it.

I'll be in New York Nov 19th to 24th to work on Eric Lelann's new album with Lionel Loueke, Aaron Parks, Ferenc Nemeth and Dayna Stephen

Bunch of races in San Francisco Bay comming in too....


A suivre.....