| Rouge | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Louis Sclavis Quintet |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | March 1992 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 63:24 |
| Label: | ECM |
| Producer: | Manfred Eicher |
| Chronology: | Louis Sclavis |
| Prev Title: | Ellington on the Air |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Title: | Trio de Clarinettes: Live |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Rouge is an album by French jazz musician Louis Sclavis, recorded in 1991 and released in 1992 on the ECM label. It was reissued in 2006 and 2019.[1]
In a review for Jazzwise, Robert Shore wrote: "I don't know what the Frenchman's inspiration for the title of this recording was – Rouge (Red) – but there's a fair bit of intergalactic shimmering going on in clarinetist/saxophonist Sclavis's ECM debut from 1991. And, of course, ECM is very good at capturing this sort of soundscape... It's a heady brew, pitched somewhere between avant-garde jazz and chamber music."[2] According to The Penguin Guide to Jazz, "Sclavis's ECM debut is a challenging and surprisingly abstract set that rarely allows itself to settle into a jazz groove. Rouge establishes Sclavis as an enterprising and thought-provoking composer. If it does so at the expense of rhythmic energy (a strategy consistent with his ambivalence about jazz percussion), it doesn't short-change in other departments."[3]