Laurent Coq - Confidences (2024) [Hi-Res]

“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
Fred Pasqua, drums

La presse en parle :

"Confidences speaks its own language where the key words are spirited engagement that draws from the deep well of a measured sense of romanticism and winches up to the surface a half a century of modern jazz traditions to feast upon." — Marlbank ★★★★