With one leg in classical music and the other in jazz, the Belgian pianist and composer Jef Neve is a passionate artist whose inspiration seems inexhaustible. He tours the world with his jazz trio, but he also wrote the music for Belgian films (The Sadness of Things, Dagen Zonder Lief) and piano concerts that he performed with the Brussels Philharmonic. At Mysterium, he investigates, in the information
… age, things that we are still not sure about or that we just don't know. This again manifests itself in a melange of (neo) classical and severely disposed jazz pieces that are sometimes reminiscent of the later, more serious work of . With his balanced and measured sound, Neve is unable to hold the attention for an album this time. A variety of top European musicians are constantly kept in line by Neve, like a conductor. There may be mystery in the music but it lacks adventure. (MR)more
