Andy Milne/Benoit Delbecq

Andy Milne is considered one of the most distinctive voices in New York’s jazz scene, performing with Steve Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Ralph Alessi, and Cassandra Wilson. His genre-breaking band Dapp Theory re-draws the boundaries of jazz. Milne’s long association with Steve Coleman inspired his unique integration of rhythmic concepts from Cuba, Ghana, American jazz, funk, and hip hop.

Described by the New York Times as “brilliant and unconventional,” Benoit Delbecq is acclaimed as one of France’s indispensable pianists. He leads several projects, while his collaborators include Evan Parker, François Houle, and Mark Helias. As an innovator in improvised prepared piano performance, Delbecq has synthesized sounds and concepts from Ligeti, Steve Lacy, to Aka Pygmy music.

While interpreting each other’s compositions and collaboratively developing pieces, Milne and Delbecq discovered a synchronicity and used it with great care to develop complex rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic relationships involving timbre and texture, space, and time. In doing so they have created new sonic properties for piano duo performance.