[TR24][OF] Baptiste Trotignon (ft Ibrahim Maalouf, Camelia Jordana, Thomas de Pourquery, Avishai Cohen, Joe Lovano, Vincent Segal) - You've Changed - 2019 (piano jazz, contemporary jazz, post-bop)

#777Французский джазовый пианист и композитор Батист Тротиньон (родился в 1974 г. близ Парижа) – это очень талантливый, энергичный, виртуозный и весьма разноплановый музыкант. В возрасте пяти лет он начал играть на скрипке, но позже, наследуя примеру отца, переключил свое внимание на фортепиано. Поступив в консерваторию Нанта, уже в возрасте 17 лет Батист получил свой первый приз, как композитор и исполнитель. В подростковом возрасте Батист переключается на джазовое исполнение и импровизацию, которой учится самостоятельно. Свои первые концерты в Нанте он начал давать с 16 лет.
В 1994 он стал одновременно пианистом и актером в фильме Алэна Корно «Новый мир» (le Nouveau Monde) и через год принял решение переехать в Париж.
В 1998 Тротиньон создает трио с Николя Клови на контрабасе и Тони Рабсоном на ударных. Так началась его карьера как лидера группы. Первый альбом под названием «Fluide» увидел свет в июне 2000 года, когда Батисту было 26 лет, а в 2001 этот альбом получил приз престижного джазового конкурса в категории «подающие надежду исполнители». В 2001-ом второй альбом принёс Батисту награду от Академии Джаза – приз имени Джанго Рейнхардта в категории «лучший джазовый музыкант года» и премию «Открытие года».
Со временем Батист Тротиньон все реже выступает как сайдмен и всё чаще играет роль лидера трио, с которым участвует в международных джазовых фестивалях во Франции (Марсиак, Париж, Ницца, Нанси, Вийет), в Канаде (Монреаль и Ванкувер), в Австрии (Вена) и др.
Знаменательной для творчества музыканта стала встреча с барабанщиком Альдо Романо, с которым завязалась настоящая дружба. Из сотрудничества этих двух музыкантов и Реми Виноло в 2006 году родился потрясающий альбом «Flower Power» – дань музыке 60-х, начала 70-х годов, где представлены джазовые перепевки Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd и Боба Дилана наряду с произведениями Генсбурга и Польнарефа.
В 2007-ом Батист возвращается к своей «давней любви» – органу Хаммонда и выпускает совместный альбом с итальянским саксофонистом Стефано Ди Батисто «Trouble shootin», за выходом которого последовало турне, состоявшее из 60 джазовых фестивалей по всей Европе.
В 2009 вышел первый «американский» альбом пианиста «Share», записанный в Нью-Йорке при участии таких легенд джаза как Том Харрелл (Tom Harrell) и Марк Тёрнер (Mark Turner). Альбом имел огромный успех и ему было посвящено турне из 20 концертов, которые были записаны в версии «live» – эти записи стали основой для следующего диска «Продолжение…» («Suite…»), записанного в Лондоне.
Батист Тротиньон сотрудничал с такими звездами, как (в алфавитном порядке): Ambrose Akinmusire, Jeanne Added, Nicholas Angelich, Jeff Ballard, Stephane Belmondo, Lionel Belmondo, Emmanuel Bex, Jane Birkin, Fabrizio Bosso, Sylvain Beuf, Philippe Cassard, André Ceccarelli, Avishai Cohen, Blas Cordoba, Alban Darche, Riccardo Del Fra, Thomas de Pourquery, Natalie Dessay, Stefano Di Battista, David El-Malek, Christian Escoudé, Laika Fatien, Jean Fauque, Glenn Ferris, Lawrence Foster, Melody Gardot, Minino Garay, Anne Gastinel, David Grimal, Tigran Hamasyan, Eric Harland, Tom Harrell, Donald Harrison, Billy Hart, Gregory Hutchinson, Ari Hoenig, Bob Hurst, Jairo, Camélia Jordana, Manu Katché, Angelique Kidjo, Elisabeth Kontomanou, Bireli Lagrène, Nguyen Lê, Joe Lovano,Eric Le Lann, Eric Le Sage, Kate Lindsey, Didier Lockwood, Jeanette Lindstrom, Jean-Loup Longnon, Russell Malone, Ibrahim Maalouf, Albert Mangelsdorff, Rick Margitza, Brad Mehldau, Malik Mezzadri, Christophe Miossec, Marc Miralta, Bill Mobley, Nils Petter Molvaer, Francois and Louis Moutin, David Murray, Milton Nascimento, Claude Nougaro, Dré Pallemaerts, Leon Parker, Mônica Passos, Jeremy Pelt, Matt Penman, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava, Danilo Rea, Aldo Romano, Perico Sambeat, Jacques Schwarz- Bart, Vincent Segal, Archie Shepp, Geoffroy Tamisier, Alexandre Tassel, Yosvanny Terry, Mark Turner, Alexandre Tharaud, Jean Toussaint, Reggie Washington, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Kenny Wheeler, Bojan Z... и многими другими.
«You've Changed» – новый студийный альбом Батиста Тротиньона. Виртуозные оригинальные композиции – «законченные, не лишенные спонтанной импровизации», которые дают волю воображению Батиста («Milonga», «Speed» и «Epilogue») – идеально сочетаются с блестящими версиями вневременных стандартов («I’m a Fool to Want You» Фрэнка Синатры и Билли Холидей, «Sugar Man» Сиксто Родригеса, и «Here, There and Everywhere» The Beatles). В записи альбома принимали участие такие музыканты как: Ибрагим Маалуф (Ibrahim Maalouf), Камелия Жордана (Camélia Jordana), Тома де Пуркуэри (Thomas de Pourquery), Джо Ловано (Joe Lovano), Венсан Сигаль (Vincent Segal) и трубач Авишай Коэн (Avishai Cohen).
Батист Тротиньон, которого многие считают одним из лучших пианистов своего поколения, за свою двадцатилетнюю карьеру получил не мало престижных наград, включая Echo Jazz Award, приз Джанго Рейнхардта, главный приз на Международном конкурсе джазовых пианистов Марсиаля Солаля и премию конкурса Victoires du Jazz в номинации «Французское открытие года» в 2003-м.
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#777Born near Paris in 1974, Baptiste Trotignon grew up in the Loire region, outside Saumur. He started playing the piano when he was 8, and a few years later he joined the Nantes Conservatory, where he won prizes for piano and harmony. In his teenage years, he discovered and taught himself jazz and improvisation, performing his first concerts at the age of sixteen.
In 1994 he appeared as actor and musician in Alain Corneau's movie "Le Nouveau Monde", deciding to move to Paris the following year. In 1998 he formed his trio with Clovis Nicolas (double bass) and Tony Rabeson (drums), and then develops his activities as a leader and signs with the independent label Naïve: released in June 2000, his debut album FLUIDE revealed him as one of the most spectacular, broad-ranging and fascinating pianists of his generation. The album won a Django d'Or for Best First Record in March 2001. Still with the same musicians, he released his second album SIGHTSEEING later that same year: Jazzman declared it "The shock of the year" and in December 2001 the Jazz Academy awarded Baptiste the Prix Django Reinhardt, an annual award given to the jazz musician of the year.
He began to make fewer and fewer appearances as a sideman, performing instead with increasing frequency both with his trio and as a solo artist at international jazz festivals, including: Jazz in Marciac, Montréal, La Villette Jazz Festival, Jazz a Vienne, Nice, Montreux, Vancouver, Toronto, Ramatuelle, Parc Floral de Paris, Nancy Jazz Pulsations...
In October 2002 he won the "Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris" at the Martial Solal International Jazz Competition, and a few months later he also received the French Newcomer of the Year award at the Victoires du Jazz 2003. Spring 2003 saw Baptiste Trotignon release a new recording, this time as a solo pianist performing his original compositions; it was a disc widely praised by the press ("ffff" in Télérama, "Shock of the year" in Jazzman, "top choice" in Jazz Magazine), by the buying public (over 15,000 copies sold) and concert-goers (La Roque d'Anthéron Festival, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, Salle Pleyel in Paris, and many others). In early 2005 he released an excellent recording of a four- piece co-led by David El-Malek; the eponymous TROTIGNON – EL-MALEK was widely praised by press and public alike. October 25, 2005 witnessed the release of SOLO II, a new studio album backed by a live DVD recorded at Piano aux Jacobins and an interview with Michel Contat, released as a digipack and limited edition longbox. Beyond simple genres, this latest solo album was a return to the spirit of his debut that confirmed Baptiste's uncontested originality, as if such a thing had ever been in doubt. It was around this time that he first met Aldo Romano, and a true musical affinity developed between them as they gave concerts together, most often as a trio with Rémi Vignolo. In autumn 2006, this combo released the remarkable album FLOWER POWER, a musical homage to the period between the late sixties and early seventies. Without ever disguising their particular musical language, the three of them offered their take on a repertoire of pop songs and tracks written by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd or Bob Dylan, as well as Gainsbourg and Polnareff.
Whilst simultaneously working on an extremely broad range of projects (concerts as a duo with top-flight improvisers such as Tom Harrell and Brad Mehldau, as well as with the classical pianist Nicholas Angelich; artistic direction of musical tribute evenings at Montreux Jazz Festival in memory of Edith Piaf and Claude Nougaro with guests like Catherine Ringer, Bernard Lavilliers or Ute Lemper; "classical" experiences playing the Concer-to in F or "Rhapsody in Blue" from George Gershwin; music for Claude Goretta's film Sartre, and so on...), he continues to develop a musical style that is resolutely open-minded and richly fertile, in collaboration with the quartet he co-leads with David El-Malek: their musical journey has now produced a second album, FOOL TIME, released in September 2007. It's a double CD live recording, again in the company of Darryl Hall and Dré Pallemaerts.
Fall 2008, his label Naive re-releases for its 10 years anniversary his first solo album brought together with a piano solo recital recorded Salle Pleyel in May 2007. During that period he returned to one of his first loves, the Hammond B3 organ, when he took part in the recording of Stefano Di Battista's album Trouble Shootin', with Eric Harland, Fabrizio Bosso and Russell Malone, followed by a tour-over 60 concerts at Europe's major festivals.
Early in 2009 Baptiste's first "American" album, Share, was released. Recorded in New York in June 2008, again with Eric Harland, it brought together two fine musicians he particularly admires: that inimitable living legend of jazz, Tom Harrell, and Mark Turner – two soloists he describes as "warriors of beauty". Following that very successful album he gave some twenty concerts with this dream quintet, including a summer tour in 2009 (with Jeremy Pelt replacing Tom Harrell), during which all the concerts were recorded, resulting in the album "Suite...", mixed in London and released in May 2010. In that highly charged live album - the stage equivalent of the Share adventure - Baptiste further asserted his qualities as a composer. In the following months he wrote a version with string orchestra and winds of the Suite for quintet that was presented at the Jazz in Marciac Festival in August 2010.
In 2011, as well as further original stage performances (duets with classical pianist Alexandre Tharaud, saxophonist Mark Turner, and singer-songwriter Christophe Miossec, whom he invited to take part in a Carte Blanche at the Printemps de Bourges with songs they had written together), he releases in September a compilation entitled "For a while", presenting a selection of pieces from his past ten years with the record label Naïve (plus a bonus DVD of the concert given in Marciac in August 2010), and also Aldo Romano's album Inner Smile, on which he appears as sideman, along with Enrico Rava.
In November 2011 he receives the Grand Prix du Jazz awarded by the SACEM.
2012 was an eventful year... After over 80 concerts in France, Europe and Asia, Baptiste released an amazing and bold album entitled "Song, Song, Song" where he invites an amazing handful of artists to join him: Jeanne Added, Monica Passos, Miossec (with whom he co-wrote two songs) and delicious Melody Gardot. This "declaration of love for the voice" (Le Monde) combines with relish his universe as a composer with carefully chosen covers of French songs played on the piano solo. The album is a critical and commercial success. At the same time his Concerto for Piano "Different Spaces" was created by Nicholas Angelich, Commission from Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, his first major orchestral work written entirely without improvisation, received with great enthusiasm at its creation and for which Baptiste is nominated at the 2014 Victoires de La Musique Classique (the annual french Classical Awards) as Composer of the Year. A recording of this piece will be released in 2015 (Naïve). He develops now this new aspect of his work, venturing into Chamber Music with his String Quartet "Empreintes", Sonata for Flute and Piano, documentary soundtrack for Vincent Trintigant-Corneau...
After recording an album of acoustic ballads with saxophonist Mark Turner ("Dusk is a Quiet Place" 2013), the 40-year-old musician Le Monde has described as "a lesson, a model, perfection from A to Z" has now returned to the art of the trio with "Hit", for which he has teamed up with his faithful partner Thomas Bramerie and American groove master Jeff Ballard.
In 2016, while he's releasing a gorgeous and original project mixing jazz and classical music on Kurt Weill songs with american mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey ("Thousands of miles", acclaimed by "New-York Times"), he writes two arrangements for Natalie Dessay's album "Pictures of America".
A few months later, he signs with the major label company Sony Music, releasing firstly two co-leaded albums showing his love for South-American musical traditions: "Chimichurri" with argentinian percussionist Minino Garay and "Ancestral Memories" with Afro-Cuban saxophonist based in New-York Yosvany Terry. Many concerts are following with these 3 projects in South-America and United States.
In 2018, while he becomes "Steinway Artist" and receives the prestigious Echo Jazz award in Germany as Best Instrumentalist-Keyboards category, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France creates his first symphonic piece "Hiatus et turbulences", just after he wrote for choir for Vocello ensemble with Henri Demarquette), or a piano solo Prelude for Philippe Cassard... At the end of the year is also created his second piece for piano and orchestra "L'air de rien", Commission from Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, concert where he also plays for the first time Mozart 1st Piano Concerto!
In November 2019, before beginning composing for a new Commission (Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra with Romain Leleu), his new and probably more personal album "You've changed" is getting released: back to solo piano after a break of 15 years, and an incredible series of duets with artists like Joe Lovano, Avishai Cohen, Ibrahim Maalouf, Thomas de Pourquery, Vincent Segal and Camélia Jordana.
Some of the musicians he has played and/or worked with:
(alphabetical order)
Ambrose Akinmusire, Jeanne Added, Nicholas Angelich, Jeff Ballard, Stephane Belmondo, Lionel Belmondo, Emmanuel Bex, Jane Birkin, Fabrizio Bosso, Sylvain Beuf, Philippe Cassard, André Ceccarelli, Avishai Cohen, Blas Cordoba, Alban Darche, Riccardo Del Fra, Thomas de Pourquery, Natalie Dessay, Stefano Di Battista, David El-Malek, Christian Escoudé, Laika Fatien, Jean Fauque, Glenn Ferris, Lawrence Foster, Melody Gardot, Minino Garay, Anne Gastinel, David Grimal, Tigran Hamasyan, Eric Harland, Tom Harrell, Donald Harrison, Billy Hart, Gregory Hutchinson, Ari Hoenig, Bob Hurst, Jairo, Camélia Jordana, Manu Katché, Angelique Kidjo, Elisabeth Kontomanou, Bireli Lagrène, Nguyen Lê, Joe Lovano,Eric Le Lann, Eric Le Sage, Kate Lindsey, Didier Lockwood, Jeanette Lindstrom, Jean-Loup Longnon, Russell Malone, Ibrahim Maalouf, Albert Mangelsdorff, Rick Margitza, Brad Mehldau, Malik Mezzadri, Christophe Miossec, Marc Miralta, Bill Mobley, Nils Petter Molvaer, Francois and Louis Moutin, David Murray, Milton Nascimento, Claude Nougaro, Dré Pallemaerts, Leon Parker, Mônica Passos, Jeremy Pelt, Matt Penman, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava, Danilo Rea, Aldo Romano, Perico Sambeat, Jacques Schwarz- Bart, Vincent Segal, Archie Shepp, Geoffroy Tamisier, Alexandre Tassel, Yosvanny Terry, Mark Turner, Alexandre Tharaud, Jean Toussaint, Reggie Washington, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Kenny Wheeler, Bojan Z...
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Info for You've Changed
Back to acoustic solo piano, with also a series of duets with Joe Lovano, Avishai Cohen, Ibrahim Maalouf, Thomas de Pourquery, Vincent Segal and Camélia Jordana.
Baptiste Trotignon studied piano and classical music since the age of six and discovered jazz and improvisation as a teenager. His first two trio albums in the early 2000’s (followed by two solo piano albums which both received major public and critical acclaim) brought him to people’s attention as one of the most spectacular member of a new generation of pianists, and brought him to perform at many major international venues..
In 2016, while he’s releasing a gorgeous original project mixing jazz and classical music on Kurt Weill with Kate Lindsey (’Thousands of miles’, acclaimed by ’New-York Times’), he signs with the major label company SonyMusic, releasing first two co-leaded albums showing his love for South-American musical traditions: ’Chimichurri’ with argentinian percussionist Minino Garay and ’Ancestral Memories’ with cuban saxophonist Yosvany Terry.
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Baptiste Trotignon – piano
Camélia Jordana – vocals
Thomas de Pourquery – vocals
Ibrahim Maalouf – flugelhorn
Avishai Cohen – trumpet
Joe Lovano – tenor saxophone
Vincent Segal – cello