News :
New album: THE HOOKUP QUARTET , “Twenties
Released February 28, 2025 on the Jazz Eleven label ( https://www.jazzeleven.com )
(photo credit : Axelle Du Rouret )
THE HOOKUP
Géraldine Laurent :Alto Saxophone
Louis Moutin : Drum
Noé Huchard : Piano
François Moutin : Double bass
The origin of Hookup is a desire shared by the Moutin brothers and Géraldine Laurent. After several one-night concerts in a variety of contexts, they decided to create a joint project. A home session with Noé Huchard later, and The Hookup was born. For their first album, they came up with the idea of arranging standards from the '20s, thus tracing a red thread linking the origins of jazz to its present a century later. It's a way of questioning the meaning of today's jazz, by visiting the timeless melodies of yesterday in the light of the inventions that have come since.
The absolute necessity of breaking out of the shackles of the past is written into the DNA of jazz, and it's in this perspective that the “Twenties” project is situated. Far from being a simple homage or rereading, it's in line with modernity and testifies to the passion these four artists feel for jazz and its liberating madness.
