resistances

lionel Martin : soprano and tenor saxs
Bruno tocanne: drums
Benoit keller : double bass

recorded in Salon de Provence , France in 2001
label: AgapeS 2002
reference: AGA 2100

titles:
Le chant des partisans(marly)
de la tête au pied (keller)
resistances (tocanne-Martin-keller)
demi tonton(keller)
coccinelle n tête (Martin)
tolérences (Martin-tocanne)
la sieste à lulu (keller)
les ménadres du fou(keller-Martin-tocanne)
morceau triste, mais... (Martin)
C'est quand il crie qu'il tête (Martin)
le chant des partisans (marly)

press:

Resistances of Jazz ...
"They are without compromise... They are not the lymphatic members of a speech or a method. Why? because with them, in their connection, they cultivate the requirement. Their music is not difficult, is not harassing. It sticks to time present. Or rather it distinguishes the lines of fracture of them... It has this of also modern, in the aesthetic direction, which it is not satisfied to reproduce ad nauseum the litany of the commonplaces. Their jazz is not a jazz of loan but well a jazz which is sought with constancy. In other words which is admirable "
- Serge Truffaut , leader-writer and critical jazz in Le Devoir of Montreal, June 2002.

A space of freedom ...
" It arises from this new trio a beautiful allied energy within the meaning of the precision and "efficacité". Nothing useless in the sentences has the time rageuses and contained of Lionel Martin which one knows ardour and the heat he have to communicate with the public. We can think to Steve Lacy in this art to engrave the sentences and to keep silent itself leaving. The double bass of Benoit Keller and the drums of Bruno Tocanne, (of which " the toms and the cymbals with the music is what the key is to the Japanese calligrapher - in "Liberation"), assume an extreme musical quality. One very moving version of " le chant des partisans" gives all his direction under their next CD " Resistance, manner of also saying that the music will always constitute a space of freedom ". Yves Bleton /Agapes 2002