To rediscover the adventurous music of William Russo has a double meaning for me: it is a tribute to Seiji Ozawa and to his open-mindedness when he commissioned them from «Bill»; it is also a way of progressing in a movement of crossing and recognising the different types of music, a trend that has a promising future. I asked Thierry Maillard, a jazzman and connoisseur of Zappa, Bartók and classical orchestras, to compose in the same spirit, sharing the adventure with AWEK, a group immersed in the famous Chicago blues whose records I have always enjoyed. On the road again!
