“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 de Montreuil and played with Marc Ducret (who is full of praise for his... Read More
“Alba Lux” Jazzman, Janvier 2009, Numéro 153
Review by Jean-Marc Gelin Un-complexed. Tam de Villiers is a particularly promising young guitarist. After having lived several years in Scotland, he moved to France where studies took him under the guidance of Malo Vallois and Marc Ducret. If our feelings are not wrong, we can hear that, along with his musical comrades, he is attracted to a very contemporary New York jazz style.... Read More
“Alba Lux”, UK reviews
JAZZWISE MAGAZINE, September 2009 This ex-Leeds College jazz guitar student was taught by Mike Walker, and now back in France is working in a similar contemporary jazz-rock vein with nods to Krantz via John McLaughlin. JAZZ UK, June/July 2009 Venturing further out, guitarist Tam de Villiers releases Alba Lux (Yes Or No), a kind of hard bop into free bop sort of thing with playing... Read More
“Alba Lux” Jazz Magazine, December 2008, No. 598
Review by Franck Bergerot It’s a strange modernity which delights me here. The same that I looked for at the end of the 1980’s in the music of Marc Ducret, Malo Vallois and Serge Lazarévitch. The guitar, its limitations and its heritage made them write music which really gave wings to the knowhow of improvisation during that epoch. A modernity which now dates twenty years:... Read More
“Alba Lux” culturejazz.net 31, octobre 2008
Review by Thierry Giard Tam DE VILLIERS Quartet: illuminated guitar. In Jazz music, the guitarists are legion, as are pianists. If we exempt the wild Manouche, and the die-hard swingers and boppers, who distinguishes those incarnate of the post seventies generation, after Hendrix, The Who, McLaughlin or Santana and others? The quest for the unprecedented created new norms which... Read More
