''Dans la Nuit'' is an album by French clarinetist

Louis Sclavis Louis Sclavis (born 2 February 1953) is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation and contemporary classical. Life ...

recorded in 2000 and released on the ECM label. The album was initialised through an invitation of French director

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to Sclavis, he agreed and wrote this music to

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's 1929 film '' Dans la nuit''.ECM discography
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Reception

The

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review by Glenn Astarita awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Sclavis' multi-hued and altogether vividly constructed arrangements hit the mark in a noticeably huge way".Astarita, G
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Louis Sclavis except as indicated'' # "Dia Dia" - 1:15 # "Le Travail" - 6:00 # "Dans la Nuit" - 3:39 # "Fête Foraine" - 4:57 # "Retour de Noce" - 2:17 # "Mauvais Rêve" - 1:41 # "Amour et Beauté" - 2:49 # "L'Accident Part 1" - 3:35 # "L'Accident Part 2" - 3:17 # "Le Miroir" (Vincent Courtois, Jean-Louis Matinier, François Merville, Louis Sclavis) - 4:43 # "Dans la Nuit" - 1:11 # "La Fuite" (Courtois, Matinier, Merville, Sclavis) - 5:14 # "La Peur du Noir" (Matinier) - 1:27 # "Les 2 Visages" - 6:19 # "Dia Dia" - 5:00 # "Dans la Nuit" - 1:29 *Recorded at Studios La Buissonne in Pernes-Les-Fontaines, France in October 2000.

Personnel

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clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...

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accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

Dominique Pifarély Dominique Pifarély (born 1957) is a French jazz violinist. He works in avant-garde jazz, but he has also worked in post-bop and other contexts. Career Pifarély was born in Bègles. In 1979, he began touring with bassist Didier Levallet and ...

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violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

Vincent Courtois Vincent Courtois (born 21 March 1968) is a French jazz cellist. Biography Courtois studied classical cello at the Conservatory of Aubervilliers, first with Erwan Fauré, and then with Roland Pidoux and Frédéric Lodéon. He also played Didier ...

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cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

References

{{Authority control ECM Records albums Louis Sclavis albums 2002 albums Albums produced by Manfred Eicher