Video of 4tet concert “Jazz sur le Vif” on Radio France Musique
J’ai le plaisir de partager avec vous la vidéo de notre dernier concert pour l’émission “Jazz sur le Vif” sur Radio France Musique duTam de Villiers Quartet Jazz sur le vif – Tam de Villiers Quartet Ce concert a été enregistré et filmé le 17 mars au Studio 105 Charles Trenet à la Maison de la Radio [...]
Reviews
“Motion Unfolding” Jazz Magazine/Jazzman No. 630, October 2011
Elected “Revelation!” award. Review by Franck Bergerot I wrote a review of “Alba Lux”, this quartet’s first album, in December 2008 in which I had expressed the joy I experienced in rediscovering the same feelings I had had 25 years earlier when first listening to Marc Ducret, Malo Vallois and Serge Lazarevitch. Three years on, [...]
“Motion Unfolding” Jazzthing November 2011
British guitarist, living in paris, Tam de Villiers is not only an outstanding guitarist, but also a poet with originality. Two of his texts, which are interpreted here by the Belgian singer David Linx, opens and closes the album “Motion Unfolding”. From references to antiquity, to mythical figures, there are bewitching words – some of [...]
“Motion Unfolding” Les Dernières Nouvelles du Jazz review
Review by Jérôme Gransac After Alba Lux in 2008, Tam de Villiers Quartet reiterates the experience with Motion Unfolding. The quartet has matured incontestably its music, and the guitarist and composer puts to good use all his apprenticeship done during his diverse experiences spun out in the clubs of Paris, from the smallest, little-known and [...]
“Motion Unfolding” Batteur Magazine, October 2011
Reviewed by Laurent Paranthoën After “Alba Lux” released in late 2008, here is the second album of this young British guitarist living in France for almost 10 years. With a rich experience gained over many collaborations, he delivers us a powerful music, rooted in the influences of his time, thanks to an astonishing maturity in [...]
“Alba Lux” CitizenJazz.com, 02 Febuary 2009
CD of the Month Review by Jérôme Gransac A Frenchman by adoption since five years ago, Tam-Lynn de Villiers, of British origin learnt music from a young age with Tommy Smith in Scotland and then in Leeds, in the north of England. In 2003, he moved to France, and continued his studies at the Conservatoire [...]
