Baptiste Trotignon & Minino Garay Chimichurri (2016)

French pianist Baptiste Trotignon and Argentinian percussionist Minino Garay (who has lived in Paris for over two decades now) have come up with a lively and fresh take on songs by Leonard Bernstein, Paul McCartney, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker, among others. They both met for the firrst time in South America in 2011 and have worked together on and off. The heavily percussive, South American stylings of “Maria” or “I Feel Pretty” for example give those two classics from both the musical theatre and jazz canons an exciting new twist.

Baptiste Trotignon will make his return in 2019 with a new album and probably his more intimate "You’ve changed" (to be released in November 19). This project leaves a large place to piano solo but also to an incredible series of duets with guests such as Joe Lovano, Avishai Cohen, Ibrahim Maalouf, Thomas de Pourquery, Vincent Segal and Camélia Jordana.