It is no exaggeration to declare that this latest BMC Records release highlights the “cream” of French jazz. However, Bulgarian-born trombonist Gueorgui Kornazov’s “Horizons” Quintet is not just a casual project of outstanding musicians, but a regularly working outfit since 2006, despite the numerous commitments of its members in other groups. The quintet’s music moves from “pensive beauty” to “stormy savagery” on a wide mood scale and emotional range. As its title suggests, the quintet’s second BMC album is a live recording, documented at their highly successful performance at BMC’s Jazzforum festival in Budapest, 2011.“In this music full of life, Gueorgui Kornazov shows that he doesn’t necessarily need to abandon his identity as a jazzman to discover the music of another world. As for the technical ease of this exceptional trombonist, it is never demonstrative, but always in the service of an intense emotion shared by prominent musicians totally immersed in the world of the leader. A musical gluttony!” Philippe Vincent (Jazz Magazine \u002F Jazzman)“A limpid music like a calm, unbroken flood which snakes between pleasant open lands. This line-up shares a unifying aesthetic which reaches from the edges of folk and popular traditional music to original, inventive forms which are always accessible. A subtle alloy of folklore, hymns, and spellbinding melodies which are always looking towards free forms.” Thierry Giard (culturejazz.fr)