Off Center Le Boeuf Brothers

• 1 Down the Road 01:54
• 2 In Captivity 05:45
• 3 Variations on a Mood 05:22
• 4 Off Center 05:33
• 5 But Some Stay the Same 03:12
• 6 Bah Dum 04:33
• 7 Everything and Nothing 04:38
• 8 Stones 05:09
• 9 Dactyl 05:33
• 10 Archne 03:26
• 11 Face Value 05:45
• Total Runtime 50:50

Info for Off Center

The Le Boeuf Brothers—saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf and pianist Pascal Le Boeuf—are GRAMMY-winning musicians with distinct voices in modern jazz. Together, alongside a stellar ensemble of longtime collaborators, they’ve formed one of the most compelling creative partnerships in the genre.

On Off Center, the group leans into spontaneity and elasticity, allowing the music to stretch beyond its written form. “We’ve known each other a long time,” Remy says, “and have taken this music to some creatively adventurous places on the road. We wanted to capture that magic in the studio.” The result is a set of compositions that highlight trust, interplay, and a shared sense of risk.

Remy Le Boeuf, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone (tracks 5, 9, 11)
Pascal Le Boeuf, piano
Dayna Stephens, tenor saxophone
Linda May Han Oh, bass
Christian Euman, drums

Recorded by Andy Taub at Brooklyn Recording, Nov. 29 & 30, 2021
Assistant Engineer Sam Wahl
Mixed and Mastered by Dave Darlington at Bass Hit Studios
Produced by Pascal & Remy Le Boeuf

The Le Boeuf Brothers
are "talented musicians and award-winning composers who channel their influences, environments, and resources into works that reflect their own identities." (All About Jazz). Pianist Pascal Le Boeuf and saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf "pursue a hyper-fluent streamlined modern ideal" (New York Times) with "an impressive level of sophistication." (San Francisco Chronicle). Together, they have received 6 GRAMMY nominations for their innovative compositional projects, which span as broadly stylistically as they do collaboratively.

Their latest project, HUSH (2023), crafts an atmosphere of intimacy and solace with its innovative compositions and experimental recording techniques. Past projects include imaginist (2016) in collaboration with JACK Quartet; House Without A Door (2009) "an impressively self-assured new album, which reaches for the gleaming cosmopolitanism of our present era" (New York Times); In Praise of Shadows (2011), which "deftly blends elements of electronica with touches of indie rock and sophisticated jazz writing on this genre-defying project" (JazzTimes); and Remixed (2013) an "open-minded and masterfully crafted precursor of things to come" (All About Jazz) featuring collaborations with David Binney, Knower, and others.

In addition to their work as performers/composers with Le Boeuf Brothers, Remy and Pascal take part in a number of diverse projects. Remy leads a jazz orchestra called Assembly of Shadows, serves as the chief conductor of the Nordkraft Big Band in Denmark, and has written for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Pascal tours with his hybrid chamber ensemble Ritual Being and jazz piano trio Pascal’s Triangle (with Linda May Han Oh and Justin Brown), is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in music composition at Princeton University, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice in Music and Technology at Vanderbilt University.

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