The Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra was created in 1971 by an ?old hand? of French free jazz, Fran?ois Tusques. Free Jazz, was also the name of the recording made by the pianist and other like-minded Frenchmen (Michel Portal, Fran?ois Jeanneau, Bernard Vitet, Beb Gu?rin and Charles Saudrais) in 1965. But, six years later Tusques had had his fill of free jazz.
After having wondered, together with Barney Wilen (Le Nouveau Jazz) or even solo (Piano Dazibao and Dazibao N?2), if free jazz wasn?t a bit of a dead end, Tusques formed the Inter Communal, an association under the banner of which the different communities of the country would come together and compose, quite simply. If at first the structure was made up of professional musicians from the jazz scene it would rapidly seek out talent in the lively world of the MPF (Musique Populaire Fran?aise).{French Popular Music, ndlt}
As with L?Inter Communal a few years earlier, Le Musichien follows on from the group of varying musicians that Tusques had conceived as a ?people?s jazz workshop?. In 1981, at the then famous Paris address, 28 rue Dunois, the pianist sang with his partner Carlos Andreu an ?afro-Catalan tale?. Over a slow bass line (exceptional work from Jean-Jacques Avenel) backed by percussion from Kilikus, saxophones (Sylvain Kassap and Yebga Likoba) and trombone (Ramadolf) which presented a myriad of constellations. The sky has no limits, let?s make the most of it.
The following year, at the ?Tomb?es de la Nuit? festival in Rennes, bassist Tanguy Le Dor? would weave with Tusques the fabric on which would evolve an explosive ?brotherhood of breath?: Bernard Vitet on trumpet, Dani?le Dumas and Sylvain Kassap on saxophones, Jean-Louis Le Vallegant and Philippe Le Strat on? bombards. With hints of modal jazz inspired by Coltrane or Pharoah Sanders, the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra is an ecumenical project which speaks to the whole world.
