Anima

Description

Prominent ambassador of the "French touch" of jazz - Winner of numerous awards (Django-Reinhardt, Victoires du Jazz, Django d'Or, SACEM grand jazz prizes) - Baptiste Trotignon has been composing for several years for symphony orchestras and classical musicians. The music on this album is not "symphonic jazz," says Trotignon, "but you can hear colors specific to the Afro-American language, whether in the harmonies or in very motoric rhythms, always in motion (dances, toccatas, 'grooves'...)."Three pieces are on the program: Anima, his most ambitious piece written to date, in its duration, but also in its orchestration, its density "and a more assertive desire to make the orchestra sing"; Hiatus and Turbulences, his very first symphonic piece, and finally L'air de rien, a lighter piece that ends with a tango, and on which he himself plays the piano and adds improvised parts.