A concentrate of good humor, sun, and joie de vivre. Such is Swing , Pierre Génisson's latest album from Aparté. At 33, this virtuoso ambassador from the French clarinet school has just taken the plunge. Ignoring the traditional cleavages between classical and jazz, old Europe and America, the Marseillais dared to take up the challenge he had set himself years ago, without really knowing how he would succeed: paying homage to an icon of the instrument, the "King of Swing" Benny Goodman. "When you're a clarinetist, Goodman is a guardian figure that you get to know very quickly , " he explains. Without hiding his humility in the face of the heritage of this master of American music. Because “Benny Goodman is far from being a purely jazz figure. He may even be the only artist who has left as much for our instrument in the field of jazz as for classical, if we think of his work with composers such as Béla Bartok, Aaron Copland, Leonard
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