Turning his back on the trendy tune, Stéphane Kerecki inscribes his artistic approach over the long term. Since 2003, combining change and continuity, the bass player has relied on two talented musicians of his generation: Thomas Grimmonprez (drums) and Matthieu Donarier (saxophones). For this project, Kerecki has expanded his trio to a quintet with two major voices in contemporary jazz: saxophonist Tony Malaby and pianist Bojan Z, with whom he has many things in common, in particular their Serbian origin. Out of the 12 tracks, Stéphane (alone or in collaboration) wrote 11 of them, the twelfth being a Serbian folk tune. In solo or at the head of the group, the leader makes his double bass speak nicely, including with the bow. To this elegant spareness respond Malaby s density and Donarier s lightness, both alternating on tenor and soprano, and Bojan Z s incisive lyricism.