Michel Portal: Turbulence | Jazz review

(Le Chant du Monde)Michel Portal has been a powerful presence on the European jazz and new music scene for a few years, and was a noted contemporary-classical clarinetist before that. This is a fine reissue from 1987, absorbing not just for the quality of the playing and the players (accordionist Richard Galliano and Weather Report percussionist Minu Cinelu are on it), and the focus of a leader who famously hates recording, but for the continuing freshness of influences from Zappa to Zawinul via...

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