Rouge (Louis Sclavis Quintet album)

Rouge is an album by French jazz musician Louis Sclavis, recorded in 1991 and released in 1992 on the ECM label.

[1] In a review for Jazzwise, Robert Shore wrote: "I don't know what the Frenchman's inspiration for the title of this recording was – Rouge (Red) – but there's a fair bit of intergalactic shimmering going on in clarinetist/saxophonist Sclavis's ECM debut from 1991.

It's a heady brew, pitched somewhere between avant-garde jazz and chamber music.

Rouge establishes Sclavis as an enterprising and thought-provoking composer.

If it does so at the expense of rhythmic energy (a strategy consistent with his ambivalence about jazz percussion), it doesn't short-change in other departments.