TRIO WITH
MOZES ROSENBERG

A project originating from a common passion of its members for traditional jazz styles and predominantly New Orleans and Swing. Groove is taken care of by two musicians whose resumes are longer than their arms: Dave Kelbie, a human metronome who combines the softness of genuine swing with enriched chords (regularly invited by masters such as Angelo Debarre and Fapy Lafertin) and Sébastien Girardot, a solid double-bass magician, with both a strong and agile style, highly solicited by famed jazz lineups (Michel Pastre Quintet, La Section Rythmique…). In a word: an Imperial rhythm section, no doubt one of the best of its kind and tied together in the Lejazzetal hall of fame project: Django à la Créole. Mozes Rosenberg, the newcomer to this project is no other than Stochelo Rosenberg’s younger brother. At 35 he already has 20 years’ experience and he is one of Gypsy Swing guitar’s newest gems. A brilliant heir to the Dutch informal ‘Gypsy guitar academy’, Mozes has achieved the development of his own voice despite the obvious connection to Stochelo Rosenberg’s legacy. A master of every modern guitar player’s skills (arpeggio, chord, and single note playing), Mozes illustrates himself with long, floating and sharp choruses, sometimes acrobatic, always remarkably formed and musical. If he occasionally blows proper musical torpedoes, he also knows that poetry lies in gentleness.

MOZES ROSENBERG – Guitar
TCHA LIMBERGER – Violin
DAVE KELBIE – Guitar
SÉBASTIEN GIRARDOT – Double Bass

Live in Foixe 2015 - Lejazzetal Records

ALBUM REVIEW. LOS ANGELES JAZZ SCENE 02.07.2020
‘Live’ in Foix – Tcha Limberger Trio
Tcha Limberger, who is blind, started out as a guitarist, added the clarinet, and did not take up the violin until he was already 17. Within a few years he was a masterful violinist and on his way to becoming one of the leaders in the Gypsy Swing movement. His trio with rhythm guitarist Dave Kelbie (who founded and runs the important Lejazzetal label) and bassist Sebastien Girardot has had strong success.
For this 2015 concert, the Tcha Limberger Trio is joined by the Dutch gypsy guitarist Mozes Rosenberg who is the younger brother of guitarist Stochelo Rosenberg, the influential leader of the Rosenberg Trio. The quartet performs swing standards and a couple of Django Reinhardt songs, swinging hard and playing creatively within the idiom.
On such numbers as “My Blue Heaven,” “Avalon,” “Topsy,” and “Some Of These Days,” the quartet is often blazing. While touched by the inspiration of Stephane Grappelli, Limberger does not overly emulate him and has his own sound; the same can be said for Rosenberg’s musical relationship with Django. They are close enough to the tradition so their playing will greatly interest fans of Reinhardt and Grappelli yet they never copy the greats and instead have forged their own path within swinging jazz.
The results are quite enjoyable and available along with a couple of dozen other excellent swinging jazz releases from the Lejazzetal label (www.lejazzetal.com).
SCOTT YANOW

ALBUM REVIEW. JAZZ HOT 12.12.2019
‘Live’ in Foix – Tcha Limberger Trio
In the realm of Django’s music, here is an excellent recording carried by a popular culture that continues to shine in Europe due to its quality and the high number of talented musicians who uphold it. Here, we have the very expressive Tcha Limberger, whose violin seems to convey the entire history and soul of Europe, particularly in the extremely sensitive high notes and with a very deep sound. The other soloist in this encounter is Mozes Rosenberg, the brother of Stochelo Rosenberg, one of those great gypsy families (from the Netherlands) who transmit Django’s music with exceptional virtuosity, a quality completely mastered to give the music the necessary expressive fullness. Mozes is thus not only very brilliant but also perfectly clear in his solos (“Someday You’ll Be Sorry”), his counterpoints (“I Surrender Dear”), and his exchanges (“Topsy”) with Tcha Limberger. The rhythm section, ensured by the fundamental Sébastien Girardot and by Dave Kelbie (rhythm guitar), the producer of the record, completes a very high-level ensemble where Tcha Limberger’s extroverted personality brings a particular warmth, and Mozes adds the virtuosic brilliance of his guitar (“Flamingo,” the introduction). It should be noted that like the Three Musketeers, the Tcha Limberger Trio is actually four with Mozes Rosenberg…
The repertoire consists of beautiful American standards (“Avalon,” “Moonglow,” etc.) or French ones (“Pour que ma vie demeure,” “Clair de Lune”). Thus, all the ingredients for a very good record are present, with the added pleasure of rediscovering Tcha Limberger in jazz, where he brings a lot of soul (on his violin and in his singing, with his heart, naturally: “I Surrender Dear,” “Someday You’ll Be Sorry,” “What Is This Thing Called Love”) and discovering Mozes Rosenberg as a high-level soloist. Django music enthusiasts will also find in this hour of music everything that makes this expression exceptional: the energy of live performance, the depth of sincerity, the ever-renewed originality in a familiar language, and an anchoring in everything that makes the magic of this music—the combination of swing and the ancestral spirits of the most elaborate, essential European popular music, magnified by the genius synthesis with Django Reinhardt’s jazz nearly a century ago.
YVES SPORTIS

ALBUM REVIEW. WORLD MUSIC REPORT 20.01.2018
‘Live’ in Foix – Tcha Limberger Trio
Although this album finds Mr. Limberger primarily on violin which he plays with enormous skill, supplying the requisite emotional density and his playing is fluid and beautifully controlled and exemplary throughout, he does sing on two tracks, scatting (“I Surrender Dear”) and singing expressivo wordlessly executing a succession of breathtaking passaggio phrases on “Someday You’ll Be Sorry”, while executing diabolical double, triple and quadruple stops on “Flamingo”. The album showcases the water-colours of Django Reinhardt’s “Clair De Lune” and a memorable version of Cole Porter’s “What Is This Thing Called Love”.
Mozes Rosenberg’s appearance on this recording adds enormous heft to the music and the guitarist plays with great virtuosity and character. His articulation is pure and in his extraordinary use of dynamics the absent characters in the music’s narratives live and breathe as if they suddenly appeared in front of you. Among the absolute high points on the disc is the bridge on “Avalon” where Mr. Limberger and the guitarist combine in a series of Paganini-like inversions.
The core of this group also includes Mr. Limberger’s life-long musical partners – Dave Kelbie, a rhythm guitarist of such astonishing power and skill, and so flawless a sense of time that he obviates, as always, the need of a drummer. The other musical cohort is Sébastien Giradot, a supremely lyrical contrabassist who also adds light and shade to the music as a painter daubs a canvas with colour. Together, the four musicians succeed in making this an album to die for.
Track list – 1: My Blue Heaven; 2: Avalon; 3: Pour Que Ma Vie Demeure; 4: I Surrender Dear; 5: Moonglow; 6: Topsy; 7: Flamingo; 8: Someday You’ll Be Sorry; 9: Some of These Days; 10: Clair De Lune; 11: What Is This Thing Called Love
Personnel – Tcha Limberger: violin and vocals; Mozes Rosenberg: guitar; Dave Kelbie: rhythm guitar; Sébastien Giradot: contrabass
Released – 2017
Label – lejazzetal Records
Runtime – 1:01:22
RAUL DE GAMA

ALBUM REVIEW. L’ALSACE FRANCE 20.02.2018
Tcha Limberger est béni des dieux
First, there’s a violinist with astonishing technique and a sensitivity to swing that places him in the lineage of Stéphane Grappelli. The Belgian Tcha Limberger, son and grandson of Manouche musicians, is blessed by the gods, also playing guitar and singing more than competently. But it is, of course, the violinist, leading a trio consisting of guitarist Dave Kelbie and double bassist Sébastien Girardot, who commands attention. An effective “machine” in the service of Gypsy swing, tinged with a tradition of classical jazz. The joy of playing is captured in a live recording from the Foix jazz festival in 2015, featuring a special guest: guitarist Mozes Rosenberg. An exceptional rhythmic session on which the soloists take flight and converse with such astonishing technique that it knows how to fade away to achieve a total elegance of play. The spirit of the great Django preserved by worthy heirs.
SERGE HARTMANN

ALBUM REVIEW. SONGLINES 01.06.2018
A hot night of Gypsy Jazz in the French Pyrenees
Tcha Limberger is a super-skilled and versatile violinist, who plays in a number of different genres. Sometimes it’s Transylvanian folk, sometimes it’s Budapest restaurant repertoire, sometimes it’s Django Reinhardt-style swing – all styles closely associated with Gypsy musicians. It’s Gypsy swing that’s the focus here; the tradition Limberger was born into in Belgium. For this live concert in the French Pyrenean town of Foix, he is joined by Dutch Gypsy guitarist Mozes Rosenberg, also born into a Sinti family steeped in this music. This concert was apparently the first time Limberger and Rosenberg had played together, but you would never guess – everything is confident and coordinated and Limberger gives him plenty of room to shine. Rosenberg really is a superb guitarist, with super-fast virtuoso melodies and feathery ornamentations, demonstrating real panache on ‘Some of These Days’. Limberger adds occasional vocals and his scat singing in ‘I Surrender Dear’ is less of a highlight. There are only two Django Reinhardt numbers, one of which is the delicate and little-known ‘Pour Que Ma Vie Demeure’. Tracks by Cole Porter, Louis Armstrong and more are given the same Gypsy swing treatment.
SIMON BROUGHTON

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