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En 1960, il a trente-quatre ans et d\u00e9barque au Havre pour entamer une carri\u00e8re qui sera d\u00e9sormais quasi exclusivement fran\u00e7aise. Un premier disque explosif, Amen, cette m\u00eame ann\u00e9e\u00a0; des collaborations avec Ren\u00e9 Thomas, Kenny Clarke, Barney Wilen, Leo Wright, Philippe Catherine\u2026 Et plusieurs formations personnelles, dont le trio avec guitare et batterie, tr\u00e8s en vogue, et qu\u2019il affectionne. En 1980, il s\u2019installe \u00e0 Paris pour ce <strong>Live at Club Saint Germain<\/strong> avec <strong><em>Billy Brooks<\/em><\/strong> \u00e0 la batterie, et un autre virtuose carib\u00e9en \u00e0 la guitare, <strong><em>Andr\u00e9 Condouant<\/em><\/strong>. Sur les six pistes de l\u2019album, on est au royaume du meilleur swing (Arrival, Pentatitus\u2026) o\u00f9 guitare et orgue se renvoient la balle de chorus en chorus avec une dext\u00e9rit\u00e9 \u00e9poustouflante. Lou Bennett n\u2019h\u00e9site pas \u00e0 improviser de v\u00e9ritables solos de basse, issus de son ancienne pratique du tuba. Et sur un Not So Softly qui porte particuli\u00e8rement bien son nom, Billy Brooks fait sonner ses f\u00fbts pour le plus grand bonheur du public du Club Saint Germain. Bref, un vrai plaisir de retrouver Bennett sur cet enregistrement. Il n\u2019en a pas grav\u00e9 tant que \u00e7a, et est disparu en 1997.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddf6\ud83c\udfb9\ud83c\udfb8\ud83e\udd41\ud83c\udfb6 Jean-Louis Benoit est le plus martiniquais des organistes franco-am\u00e9ricains. Ou bien le contraire. Lou Bennett nait \u00e0 Philadelphie, d\u2019un p\u00e8re martiniquais, donc, et d\u2019une m\u00e8re am\u00e9ricaine. Influenc\u00e9 par Wild Bill Davis et Jimmy Smith, il se met \u00e0 l\u2019orgue apr\u00e8s avoir touch\u00e9 au piano et m\u00eame au tuba. 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