Jazz Articles about Baptiste Trotignon

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Baptiste Trotignon: Share

by Raul d'Gama Rose
July 15, 2009

At first blush, one thought and just one thought rattles around in the mind: “Can Bill Evans never rest in peace?" But then the music of “Samsara," the second track on the lovely Share wafts into the inner ear.

With flugelhornist Tom Harrell and Mark Turner wailing on tenor saxophone, Share's main protagonist, Baptiste Trotignon, plays rapid trills beforesettling down and applying a remarkable dynamic to his piano solo. Withdrawing the emotion of the song into a virtual ...

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Baptiste Trotignon: Solo II

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 3, 2006

L'Italia è patria di così tanti talenti pianistici che a volte ci si dimentica di curiosare oltre frontiera per vedere che cosa bolle in pentola. Ci si accorgerebbe ad esempio di quanto possano essere simili le traiettorie in seno a un certo jazz europeo, come emerge dal nuovo lavoro in solo del bravo Baptiste Trotignon, Solo II, in cui al disco in studio viene abbinato il DVD di un concerto tenuto a Tolosa nel 2003 e una conversazione con Michel ...

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Baptiste Trotignon: Solo

by J. Robert Bragonier
November 12, 2003

What is it about France and the French? In the U.S., where jazz is part of our cultural heritage, attendance at live jazz events and jazz album sales are anemic by comparison. The future of jazz here would be considerably healthier if we were half as interested in jazz as are the French! Solo is the first solo album to be released by Baptiste Trotignon, the latest in a series of French jazz pianists of enviable talent and ...