Confidences Laurent Coq

• 1Around The Corner05:50
• 2Confidences06:34
• 3Nawari07:18
• 4Caprices06:09
• 5Carrousel05:43
• 6L'Ange Madidjé07:02
• 726, Esplanade Nathalie Sarraute04:25
• 8Mazurka pour Alain Jean-Marie05:38
• Total Runtime48:39

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“Confidences” marks the return to recording, after a long gap, of one of the most respected pianists in France for his artistic vision, the courage of his—sometimes polemical—positions and the fertility of his musical conceptions: Laurent Coq. For his third opus in the demanding format of the piano-double bass-drums trio, rich in his collaborations with leading musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, from Miguel Zenon to Walter Smith III, from Sophie Alour to Julien Lourau, the pianist presents a series of eight compositions which are all moments of musical truth. Beliving in the the stimulating virtues of form, knowing how to combine rigor and delicacy, accuracy and tenderness, Laurent Coq has woven a set of tunes that are developed and improvised in close collaboration with his playing partners, double bassist Yoni Zelnik and drummer Fred Pasqua, in the moment. Behind each of the “Confidences” that they delivers to their listeners, in the form of a whisper as well as a tormented speech, stories and moments of life can be guessed, which there is no need to explain so much, as the music summons its own characters and transforms into a story. A record with deep feelings, matured over a long period of time, with liner notes by drummer Guilhem Flouzat, which ranks among the great successes of the trio format.

Laurent Coq, piano
Yoni Zelnik, double bass
Fred Pasqua, drums

Laurent Coq
is a French piano player and composer who has been very active during the past twenty five years on both sides of the Altantic. From his first New York stay in 1994 – thanks to a scholarship from the French Government he was able to take lessons from Mulgrew Miller, John Hicks and Bruce Barth — to the fruitful years he spent as a resident from 2000 to 2005 — Like a Tree in The City recorded in quartet with Jérôme Sabbagh in 2003, Spinnin’ in trio, Best Album of 2005 by the French Jazz Academy — and many more collaborations with major musicians of our time (Miguel Zenón, Walter Smith III), up to his last trio recording Kinship (2017 jazz&people/PIAS) recorded with two of the most in-demand musicians in New York, Laurent has managed to keep some strong connections with the Jazz Mecca.

And yet he has always conducted exciting projects in Paris where he now resides – Prix Charles Cros 2002 for the Blowing Trio, Dialogue trio with Ralph Lavital, his former student at EDIM, with whom he toured in Africa and the US — and collaborations with important France based musicians (Julien Lourau, Elisabeth Kontomanou, Sandro Zerafa).

With fifteen albums under his name or as a coleader and many music scores for theater and cinema, he has become an important jazz musician and composer of his generation.

On top of these activities, Laurent Coq has long been a devoted musical educator, leading several youth orchestras and masterclass across continents. Owner of a State Jazz Diploma, he currently teaches at EDIM since 2005, and at Pontault-Combault/Roissy en Brie and Torcy conservatories, near Paris, since 2015.

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