On May 10, 2023, two days before its release, Alex Dutilh devoted the Jazz Bonus segment of Open Jazz on France Musique to Life & Umbrella, the new album by Mexican pianist Javier Red and his quartet Imagery Converter.
What France Musique wrote
“Life & Umbrella” est le nouvel album du pianiste mexicain Javier Red, qui sort le 12 mai 2023, sous le nouveau label Desafio Candente Records. Sa contribution à l’approche de l’autisme. (“Life & Umbrella is the new album by Mexican pianist Javier Red, out on May 12, 2023 on the new label Desafio Candente Records. His contribution to the approach of autism.”)
France Musique, Jazz Bonus
The Jazz Bonus page
The Jazz Bonus page quotes Javier Red on the origin of the project, his son’s autism diagnosis, and on the album’s twelve compositions, which describe the emotions, inner world and daily life of an autistic child. It also recalls his first album, Ephemeral Certainties (Delmark Records, 2019), selected among the best debut albums of 2019 in the NPR Jazz Critics Poll.
Read the Jazz Bonus page on France Musique
About Life & Umbrella
Life & Umbrella · Javier Red’s Imagery Converter · Desafio Candente Records, 12 May 2023. Twelve compositions by Javier Red that describe the emotions, inner world and daily life of an autistic child, and how parents experience it. Javier Red (piano), Jake Wark (tenor saxophone), Ben Dillinger (bass), Gustavo Cortiñas (drums). Artwork by Carmen Chami.
