On January 24, 2026, Japanese jazz magazine PJ Portrait in Jazz included “Otsukaresama”, the title track of Grégory Sallet’s album with his Sur Écoute Quartet, in its NEW DISCS playlist, written by Hiroki Sugita.
What PJ Portrait in Jazz wrote
①は日本語の意味を理解した上での楽想であり、グレゴリー・サレがM-Baseから確実に音楽性を吸収したことを物語る。 (“The opening track is a musical idea built on an understanding of the meaning of the Japanese word, and it shows that Grégory Sallet has clearly absorbed musicality from M-Base.”)
Hiroki Sugita, PJ Portrait in Jazz
The NEW DISCS playlist
The note presents Grégory Sallet as a Lyon-based saxophonist who built his style under the influence of Jan Garbarek and Steve Coleman, and the album as the project’s second release after a 2019 record, in two parts: quartet tracks, then pieces where the two guests bring Japanese and Indian musical elements. The playlist is also available on Spotify.
Read NEW DISCS on PJ Portrait in Jazz (in Japanese)
About Otsukaresama
Otsukaresama · Grégory Sallet « Sur Écoute » Project · La Voie de la Musique Créative, Inouïe Distribution, released November 7, 2025. Grégory Sallet (saxophones, compositions), Matthieu Roffé (piano), Kevin Lucchetti (drums), Michel Molines (double bass), with guests Yuriko Kimura (flutes) and Prabhu Edouard (tablas, udu, voice). Recorded in May 2025 at Le Crescent, Mâcon.
