Hear Jean-Pierre Jumez performing: « IF » and RÊVE » (Pierre Lerich)
« The music of my dreams would be a sort of peaceful meditation, free of elements of folk or jazz, of the exotic or archaic, a music which defies labels, simple and clear. It would have to be played with an empty mind, like a sort of yoga. But there is an infinite distance between the music we dream and the music that comes to our fingers as we improvise, which is held back by habit and by manual and mental clichés. Let us be patient: art is long and life is fleeting.«