Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:04
Size: 128.4 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz
Year: 2006
Art: Front
[4:06] 1. Love Me, Please Love Me
[4:28] 2. Say It Ain't So
[6:03] 3. Valse De Melody/Je T'aime Moi Non Plus
[6:55] 4. Sea Song/Crying Song
[3:57] 5. Black Dog
[3:39] 6. Don't Let Me Be Lonely
[4:44] 7. Mr Tambourine Man
[5:46] 8. Bridge Over Troubled Water
[4:15] 9. C'est Extra
[4:45] 10. Your Song
[7:20] 11. The End
Bass – Rémi Vignolo; Drums – Aldo Romano; Piano – Baptiste Trotignon. Recorded at Studio Meudon, France, April 26, 2006.
Although born in Italy, Aldo Romano moved to France with his family at a young age. He was already playing guitar and drums professionally in Paris in the '50s when he heard Donald Byrd's group with drummer Arthur Taylor. Since then, he has dedicated himself to the drums and contemporary jazz. In Paris jazz clubs like le Chat Qui Pêche and the Caméléon, Romano has accompanied visiting Americans like Jackie McLean, Bud Powell, Lucky Thompson, J.J. Johnson, and Woody Shaw while also exploring free music with Don Cherry and Gato Barbieri, Frank Wright and Bobby Few, Michel Portal, François Tusques, Jean-Louis Chautemps, and Steve Lacy.
Rémi Vignolo is he drummer, or bassist? Composer?! We did not know ... How could we have known elsewhere? Nougaro, Lagrene, Terrasson, Galliano, Romano, Werner, Bergonzi, Aznavour, Luke, Di Battista, Legrand, Trotignon, Grossman, El Malek, Pierranunzi, Z (Bojan's) ... It's as if the guy had melted into the landscape, as if he had taken advantage of the light of all these great "Names" to better hide his own. A more exhaustive list of his collaborations or the details of the eighty albums already recorded for others behind his double bass or his drums would not illuminate further the motivations, the choices, the doubts ... The course can be confusing, remains the certainty of being faced with an unusual personality, a rare bird on which decency and fashions have, obviously, little grip. (Translated from French.)
Baptiste Trotignon (born in 1974) began playing the piano at the age of six. He discovered and taught himself jazz and improvisation as a teenager. In 1994 he played both the piano and a role in Alain Corneau's film "Le Nouveau Monde", and one year later he decided to move to Paris. Over the years that followed he developed a number of eclectic encounters, while also continuing to play music that was resolutely open-minded and imaginative. This included performing alongside top-quality improvisers like Tom Harrell and Brad Mehldau and classical pianists such as Nicholas Angelich and Alexandre Tharaud, and he was also artistic director for tribute evenings to Edith Piaf and Claude Nougaro at Montreux, composed film music for Claude Goretta's "Sartre", and did some Hammond B3 organ tours with Stefano Di Battista's "Trouble Shootin'". Baptiste's first "American" album, "Share", was recorded in New York and came out in early 2009. He made it with Eric Harland and invited Tom Harrell (a living and inimitable jazz legend) and Mark Turner along. The album was a hit and was followed by a highly charged live album recorded in London ("Suite…" 2010). In the next few months he wrote a version featuring a string and wind orchestra that was performed for the first time at the Jazz in Marciac Festival.
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