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Baptiste Trotignon

Title: Suite ...

Label: Naive

Cat No:NJ620311
Format:CD

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• After “Share”, recorded with a top-level international group – Tom Harrell, Mark Turner, Matt Penman, Otis Brown III, Eric Harland – in New York in June 2008, Baptiste Trotignon is back with “Suite …” : an ambitious project recorded on tour last summer with almost the same team (Jeremy Pelt replaces Tom Harrell). The result is a very fine “Suite” for quintet, lasting about fifty minutes and in five parts, sometimes with and sometimes without interludes.

• The piece entitled ‘Suite’, was recorded at Charlie Wright’s club in London, and is a small masterpiece of contemporary jazz, revealing how magnificently Trotignon’s compositional skills have developed - stylistically rooted in modern jazz but also nourished by Brazilian chorinho, pop music, and the European classical tradition.

• There are two further pieces : ‘Flow’ (recorded in the studio at the same time as the first album, “Share”) opens with a splendid unaccompanied solo from Mark Turner; then, after the density of the past hour of music, the CD ends on a lighter note with the ballad ‘I Fall in Love Too Easily’ (recorded in Paris), a peaceful evocation of original swing and blues.

Track Listing for Suite ...
1-8. Suite (Prologue, Part I, Part II, Part III, Interlude I, Part IV, Interlude II, Part V)

9. Flow
10. I Fall In Love Too Easily

Reviews

Jazzwise - Jack Masserik

as a performer, the composer himself has never sounded more assured. ****

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