Baptiste Trotignon

Baptiste Trotignon, dont on connaît depuis plus de onze ans les qualités artistiques, publie sous le titre For A While une sorte d’anthologie de son travail enregistré sur le label Naïve, travail qui a reçu, depuis Fluid en 2000 jusqu’à Share en 2008, des récompenses nombreuses et justifiées.

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.

Les reprises de grands classiques contemporains revisités à travers le filtre jazz font florès

Because "hitting" as percussion, as the primary driving force of sound, the fundamental element of so many musical forms, their organic element and life source, has always been at the centre of most types of Afro-American music and all those derived from it. And because my love for melody, which has always made me want to make the piano sing and use it as a cantabile instrument, has never completely taken me away me from the pleasure of physically hitting the keys, with all its instinctive, earthly connotations.