I love the music of French jazz composer and clarinetist Louis Sclavis.
His melodies are sometimes angular and oblique—other times, smooth and deep and sonorous. Sclavis knows just which note your ear wants to hear next, and—just when you think you’re about to get it—instead he gives you a much different note, confounds and teases you, and then finally slides gracefully into the note you expected… just in time for the next unexpected twist.
If you want to hear some beautiful and strange sounds, check out L’imparfait des Langues.
