Jim Black - Marc Ducret - Liudas Mockūnas (US,FR, LT)

Liudas Mockūnas - Marc Ducret – Jim Black (LIT-FRA-USA) 

A tandem of two ingenious personalities: French guitarist Marc Ducret and Lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockūnas joining forces with American genius drummer Jim Black. 

Mockunas and Ducret began there collaboration in 2002 when Marc Ducret joined the band « Toxikum » co-lead by Liudas Mockunas and Danish drummer Stefan Pasborg. In 2004 « Toxikum » was awarded « Danish Music Award » after that « Toxikum » was touring actively in 2004-2006 around Scandinavia, Baltic countries and France. At the same time Liudas Mockunas and Marc Ducret began playing as a duo and since playing together. In 2009 NoBusiness Records released there album « Silent Vociferation.

Marc Ducret and Jim Black worked together with Tim Berne’s « Bloodcount » quintet, more than twenty years ago; they toured and recorded three cds with that band, and then played again together with Hank Robert, and recorded « Green ». Marc Ducret about Jim‘s playing: „..His musicality and his versatility - the fact that, being a composer, he always plays according to the group sound instead of « just » playing drums, always made him one of my favorite drummers...“

Liudas Mockūnas about Jim and Marc: „...for the first time I heard Jim‘s and Marc‘s playing in the late 90‘s with Tim Berne‘s Blodcount. „Espacially Marc Ducret and Jim Black blew up my mind in that band. There playing sounded so honest, fresh and special to me. To be honsest I always had a secter dream to play with both of these great musicians“

Jim Black is at the forefront of a new generation of musicians bringing jazz into the 21st century.
In addition to being one of the most influential drummers of our time, he is also the leader of one
of the world's most forward-thinking bands, AlasNoAxis, featuring his longtime collaborators
Chris Speed, Hilmar Jensson and Skúli Sverrisson. Based on the foundation of his virtuosic but
highly personal approach to jazz drumming, Black's aesthetic has expanded to include Balkan
rhythms, rock songcraft and laptop soundscapes. Though he is revered worldwide for his
limitless technique and futuristic concepts, what many listeners treasure in most Jim Black's
work is the relentless feeling of joy and invention he brings to his performances. Jim Black's
smiling, kinetic, unpredictable presence has enthralled and inspired audiences worldwide for
over twenty-five years.
Since the mid-90's, Black has played a major role in the incorporation of new sounds and
techniques into the jazz/creative music context. As a member of the collective group Pachora
(with Speed, Sverrisson, and guitarist Brad Shepik) Black was one of the leaders in the study
and adaptation of Balkan music into jazz-based music. His advanced techniques abstracted the
odd time signatures of the Balkans into a new polyrhythmic language equally informed by
modern jazz, drum&bass and the dumbeks of the Balkans. Black has also been an innovator in
the use of electronics in improvisation, bridging the gap between electro-acoustic improv and

more jazz-based traditions. Today, Black's performances are just as likely to feature his laptop-
based electronic textures as his drumming.

Born in 1967, Jim Black grew up in Seattle alongside future colleagues Chris Speed, Andrew
D'Angelo and Cuong Vu. After cementing their personal and artistic relationships in Seattle's
various youth jazz ensembles, in 1985 they moved to Boston, where Black entered the Berklee
School of Music. In Boston, Black, Speed and D'Angelo formed Human Feel with guitarist Kurt
Rosenwinkel, which rapidly attracted the attention of the jazz cognoscenti in Boston, New York
and beyond.
By 1991, Black and the other members of Human Feel had moved to New York City, where they
electrified the Downtown music scene then centered around the Knitting Factory and rapidly
became among the city's busiest sidemen. Black's early years in New York saw him take
featured roles in some of the most critically acclaimed bands of the time, like Tim Berne's
Bloodcount, Ellery Eskelin's trio, and Dave Douglas's Tiny Bell Trio. Thus began twenty years of
near-constant touring and recording, with the above bands as well as artists like Uri Caine, Dave
Liebman, Lee Konitz, Nels Cline, Steve Coleman, Tomasz Stanko, Laurie Anderson, and John
Zorn.
After 12 years of leading his singer-less-songwriting-post-rock-improv band AlasNoAxis, Jim
chose to go in the absolute opposite musical direction by forming a piano trio featuring one of
the most in demand NY musicians, Thomas Morgan on bass, and the young Austrian pianist
Elias Stemeseder. After two albums and a host of international tours and performances, the
trio’s third cd The Constant was released on Intakt Recordings. Jim’s latest project Malamute,
featuring tenor saxophonist Oskar Gunjonsson, was released on Intakt in January 2017.
For more information, media links and press, please visit www.jimblack.com.

"A complete musician and wonderfully fertile composer... Black has produced a masterpiece of
future jazz." -Andy Hamilton, The Wire
"Fluent in all languages." -Time Out NY
"wickedly inventive... A revelation." –CMJ


Marc Ducret is among today's most original improvisers. Self-taught, extraordinarily gifted musician does not restrict himself to a particular style, writes distinctive and unexpected music - attacking with ferocious electric guitar outbursts or drifting into subtle impressionistic abstractions, resounding with rock hits or approaching post-bop, bursting into noise avalanches or playing with bits and pieces from the world of flamenco and classical music. One of the most unconventional guitarists empowered by acoustic and electric, bass and baritone guitars produces a unique sound, embracing all imaginable music forms.
Born in Paris in 1957 Marc Ducret began his professional career in 1975, playing bass in dance bands, rock and folk groups, accompanying singers and singing himself, and working as a studio musician. This experience was his 'Alma Mater'. As a guitarist he debuted in 1986 playing with Patrice Caratini octet. The same year he became a member of the first French Orchestre National de Jazz, and formed his own trio, becoming a regular performer on the domestic and international concert and festival scene. The following year his trio recorded its debut album La Théorie du Pilier.
Marc Ducret soon gained recognition - he was awarded Django Reinghardt Prize in 1987, in 1988 and 1989 Jazz Hot magazine elected him the best French jazz guitarist, and in 1989 he was hailed as SACEM star. His career picked up and before long as a soloist he became much demanded abroad.
Since 1991, collaboration with American saxophonist Tim Berne brought Marc Ducret recognition in the motherland of jazz. He has since worked in a number of formations led by Tim Berne, including duo, Big Satan, Caos Totale and Bloodcount. Marc Ducret recoded several solo albums, released on T.Berne's Screwgun label. A regular member of New York Factory, Marc Ducret today is one of the few European musicians regularly playing overseas.
Marc Ducret also collaborates with Larry Schneider, David Friedmann, Michel Portal, Joachim Kühn, Franco Ambrosetti, Didier Lockwood, Miroslav Vitous, Enrico Rava, Adam Nussbaum, Django Bates, David Sanborn, Joey Baron, Michel Godard, Dominique Pifarély, David Linx, Bobby Previte and many others, works with various groups, including AKA Moon, Acoustic Quartet with Louis Sclavis and Dominique Pifarély, Andy Emler quintet, Fran?ois Jeanneau orchestra Pandémonium, Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Daniel Humair and Antoine Hervé ensembles, Fran?ois Corneloup quartet, performs as a duo with percussionist Bobby Previte and his quartet Latin for Travelers also with Pasborg-Mockunas"Megaphone" and Pasborg-Mockunas "Toxikum".
In addition, Marc Ducret performs solo and with his own ensembles, including tentet Seven Songs, exploring the music of the '60s with a very personal touch.Marc Ducret formed the present line-up of the trio in 1997, after accumulating experience of working in similar formations. 
www.marcducret.com


Liudas Mockunas has been active on European Jazz scene as solo performer and co-leader of bands Pasborg - Mockunas Toxikum, Saga Quartet, Red Planet, Traffic trio, Heavy Beauty, duos with Marc Ducret, Barry Guy, Ryoji Hojito, Petras Geniusas and Vladimir Tarasov. He is a member of Pasborg’s Odessa 5, Vladimir Tarasov Trio, Copenhagen Art Ensemble, the Lithuanian New Music ensemble Gaida.
He played with Piere Dorge’s New Jungle Orchestra, Andrew Hill's Jazz Par Octet, Mikko Innanen’s Inkvisitio, Ibrahim Electric, Trio VD, Mats Gustafsson, Burry Guy, Raymond Strid, Frank Gratkowski, Vladimir Chekasin, Jaak Sooaar, Jacob Anderskov, Marc Solborg, Jonas Westergaard, Mats Eilertsen, Nils Davidsen, Jakob Riis...
The creative interests of Mockūnas are focused on improvised music and experimental jazz stage.
In 2004 Liudas Mockunas and Stefan Pasborg band Toxikum reiceved the "Danish Music Award' for there album "Toxikum", Mockunas also has reiceved "Vilnius Jazz Prize" 2006', Birstonas Jazz 2008, the Lithuanian Musicians Union prize "Golden Disc" 2008' and the “Golden Cross” for the best Lithuanian drama theatre composer 2011.
Mockunas plays new academic music of such composers as Anatolijus Senderovas, Alvydas Malcys, Osvaldas Balakauskas, Dietrich Eichmann, Bronius Kutavicius, Giedrius Puskunigis, Vykintas Baltakas, Viacheslav Ganelin. As a soloist of new academic music he played with Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Kralovy Hradec Symphony Orchestra, St. Christofer Chamber Orchestra, Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra and string quartet Chordos.
http://www.mic.lt/en/database/jazz/composers-artists/mockunas/

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