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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 [...]

Motion Unfolding EPK – Tam de Villiers Quartet + David Linx

Reviews

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“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 [...]

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“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 [...]

“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 [...]

“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 [...]