Michel Portal

His audience is ever-present and critics have been using superlatives to  qualify his work for years ; younger musicians refer to him as a leader  in jazz that is both accessible and demanding, and his peers readily  admit to being impressed by his bulimic taste for adventure… Yet Michel Portal  is no leading light in the way others are : risk comes as second nature  to him, and he stubbornly refuses the “senator of jazz” status he could  have claimed ages ago.

As an accomplished practitioner of improvisation in jazz he continues to  multiply adventurous encounters onstage ; he still plays classical  music as if it were a challenge to his brio as an instrumentalist ; and  in parallel he continues to approach recording as a highly perilous joy.

Source : Anteprima Productions