Jazzlab Orchestra consists of the three reed team of Mario Allard/sp-as-cl, Benjamin Deschamps/sp-tn-fl, Samuel Blais/ss-bcl, the brass players Jacques Kuba Seguin/tp with Thomas Morelli-Bernard/tb and a rhythm team of Felix Stussi/p, Alain Bedard/b and Michel Lambert/dr. The plethora of horns make for harmonies and textures reminiscent of vintage Duke Ellington, with Deschamp’s soprano bopping over the brushes on “Pum la Suite” and his tenor getting loose and Mingusy “Bluesy del Lunedi”. There’s a melancholy feel with Blais’ bass clarinet on “La Grande Suave Majeuri” and a sort of New Orleans Second line feel with Seguin’s horn out in front of the march on “Humor de la Seconda Noche”. The drums rumble under Stussi and Blais on “Cruicm” and the horns are elegiac and yet vaudevillian as if the circus is in town for “Compte-rendu” and the unison’d “Casse-pattes/case-guele/case-tete”. Rich and flavorful French sauces of sound.