The album’s title is a homage, sidestep and claim all at once. It is the literal translation of Giant Steps, the legendary John Coltrane standard from 1959, which Camille Bertault made her own in a YouTube video, including every note of the saxophone solo and marking the start of her rise in spring 2015.

And she sings the aria from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations at full speed, covers Serge Gainsbourg’s “Comment te dire adieu”, the surrealist “Conne” by Brigitte Fontaine and “La femme coupée en morceaux” by Michel Legrand, written and sung in Brazilian over some Wayne Shorter and in French over Bill Evans.

Together with her musicians they have created more than an album just about jazz, vocals or some pre-set fusion: Pas de géant is an album about Camille Bertault, her encyclopedic culture of pleasure, her taste for vocal cascades, her silky sensitivity, her tendency for acrobatics and her evident unbridledness. Coltrane couldn’t have seen her coming but he is sure to be looking down and smiling.