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'La Ripaille'

At this years Melbourne International Jazz Festival David Ades played his album 'A Glorious Uncertainty' with:
the great Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone, David Ades on alto saxophone, Mark Helias on double bass and Gerald Cleaver on Drums.
The band played at Bennett's lane jazz club which was packed to the brim with enthusiastic voyeurs entranced by the spectacular performance of the quartet.

The track La Ripaille is dedicated to the famous New York restaurant owned by Davids brother in Law.

La Ripaille
605 Hudson St
New York, NY 10014
Area: West Village
(212) 255-4406
http://www.laripailleny.com/

New York has always been Ades' musical Mecca. It's where he went at age 19, after completing his first year at the Sydney conservatory, to get his musical ass kicked. Night after night from 1981 to 1984, he sat in on shows at the Blue Book in Harlem, witnessing remarkable artists like Jack McDuff, Sonny Stitt, Stanley Turrentine and Freddie Hubbard. Quite simply, Harlem taught him how to play.
Armed with his saxophone, a little Casio keyboard and three rough compositions, Ades left the hills of Byron Bay in mid 2011 to return to New York. He secured himself in room above La Ripaille, a bustling French restaurant owned by his brother-in-law, and let the music come. Soon he had nine songs and, after one rehearsal, the quartet of Ades, Helias, Malaby and Cleaver entered the Acoustic Recording Studios in Brooklyn with engineer Michael Broby the following day. Proving the fluidity of Ades' compositions, the dexterity of the players and the depth of their connection, the album was finished within five hours.
Titled A Glorious Uncertainty after a phrase his sister coined to describe their father's life, the album contains nine compositions of startling individuality, each track dripping with a life force all of its own. Together they stand as a testament to Ades' beautifully courageous approach to music and the shared willingness of the players' sublime abandon.