Napoli's Walls
Context
Title track of the ECM album recorded in December 2002 at La Buissonne studios. Sclavis wrote it in response to the images that visual artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest pasted on the walls of Naples between 1987 and 1995. He plays there with Médéric Collignon, Vincent Courtois and Hasse Poulsen.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to French jazz, ECM and European jazz. Among the origins and influences of French jazz: Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's), Traditional revival, Hot Club de France, Gypsy jazz, Jazz in France (interwar years), Jazz of the Maghreb and the Near East.