| bruno tocanne 4 new dreams ! Free, authentic and absolutely convincing CULTURE JAZZ 03/2011  Photo Yves Dorison
Michael Bates (double bass, NY) Rémi Gaudillat (tpt, France) |
Plenty of space for the groove to breathe... European
jazz seems to be on a roll, with players like Peter Brotzmann and Han
Bennink counted among the music's most revered figures, and
Lisbon-based label Clean Feed emerging as this decade's Blue Note.
Musos like Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado and Swiss trombonistSamuel Blaser even
run their own labels. Now you can add French drummer Bruno Tocanne to
the list. He's served as artistic director of the imuZZic collective
for over a decade... On "4 New Dreams !", he leads a quartet where
Blaser intertwines contrapuntal lines and swaps solos with trumpeter
Remi Gaudillat. The leader never rushes the proceedings, always
ensuring that there's plenty of space for the groove to breathe and the
listener to cogitate. The music's mood is somber and reflective, and
the performances are beautifully recorded, so that every intimate
detail and nuance is clearly audible.
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Artistic
director of the imuZZic collective since 2000, Bruno Tocanne has
always initiated a lot of projects like
the Polysons collective with Jean Rémi Guédon, the “Bruno Tocanne
Reunion” with Sophia
Domancich,
then with Laurent
Dehors
and Philippe Sellam, the “Tocanne - Delaunay duet” (CD of emotion
– Jazz Magazine), The Trio Resistances (3 albums - Cristal
Records), the most of the creations of the
imuZZic collective,
or in late 2009, the big band “Libre(s)ensemble”...
He has recorded and toured with Sophia Domancich's Trio ("Funerals"
+ Paul Rogers, featuring John Greaves)
and has also performed with Denis Badault, Louis
Sclavis,
Hasse Poulsen, Jean-Philippe Viret, Laurent Cugny, Hugh Hooper, Dave
Burrell,
Russ Johnson, the
I.Overdrive Trio.. Influenced
by pop-rock movement at the end of the 70s, before turning to jazz
and improvised musics, Bruno Tocanne - "somewhere between Robert
Wyatt and Paul Motian” (Le Monde de la Musique) - is currently working both on electric projetcts (A tribute to Std Barret with the I.Overdrive trio, the Libre Ensemble) and on "acoustic" projects like this serie of "new dreams" started in 2008 with the saxophonist Lionel Martin and the trumpet player Rémi Gaudillat ("new dreams nOw !") then in 2008 with a 5tet co-leaded by himself and the saxophoniste - clarinetist and composer Quinsin Nachoff, who is living in New York (Nachoff - Tocanne Project "5 new dreams" - Top Album of the year 2008 in Montreal Gazette), before touring in late 2009 in China, Hong Kong and Korea in 4tet with the new yorker double bassit Michael Bates
("new songs" tour). The "4 new dreams !" album was recorded in april
2010 with this same double bass player, and with the swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser (who recorded in december 2010 with Paul Motian and is actually playing in a 5tet with Marc Ducret), and the french trumpet player Rémi Gaudillat. Michael Bates, Rémi Gaudillat and Bruno Tocanne met them when they
shared the stage in Lyon in 2008, the first with his own 4tet, the two
others with the Nachoff -Tocanne project. They did the first gig together when Samuel and Michael were on tour in
Europa in 2009 and all of them immediattly undrestood that there
was a clear band chemistry. Bruno Tocanne is also playing in duet with Samuel Blaser > "new songs" tour in East Asia on Picasa |
from left to right , behind : Fred Roudet - Rémi Gaudillat / front : Samuel Blaser - Bruno Tocanne - Michael Bates