tocanne delaunay in english

" Those two are free like the breath that rides between the toms and the cymbals of Bruno Tocanne, like the wind that comes from the soprano saxophone, the back-pipe, the clarinets played by Catherine Delaunay. Both, percussion and wind instruments are focussing on melody with total freedom. No leadership here, those guys are sharing the space while they are carefully listening to each other without any limit of expression. For Catherine Delaunay and Bruno Tocanne, jazz and improvised music, today, represent the ideal field for a real strong musical experience nourished by a great variety of sources. That diversity is standing by itself and assure the richness of tone colours."
- Arnaud Merlin , JAZZMAN , and producer in france musiques (radio france)

"This duet was born after inviting in trio a lot of improvised musicians like Denis Badault, Serge Lazrevitch, Régis Huby, Alain Blesing…Melody and pulsations are suggested with a sensual pleasure. The song is even present on the wind instruments like on drums. A fresh and strange music..."
- Alex duthil, JAZZMAN

"More than a duet, it's here a real dialog, a dialog open to all possibilities. It's a music made of subtle humour… Great! It's full of swing and fun. Their complicity is pleasant to see... That's here democracy in music, that's jazz!"- LE JAZZ

After a first price of clarinet (she studied with jacques di donato in conservatory) and some other prices and many performances in classical music, catherine delaunay comes to improvised music.

She meets laurent dehors in 1996 and then plays and records with his band : “tous dehors” (two CD : “dentiste” and “a la campagne”)

She plays and records with luc le masne / terra nova (on tour in mexico) and participate to the creation in cuba and paris of the le manacuba in 2001… Plays also with daniel goyonne, claude tchamitchian, jean-marie machado, denis badault, alain blesing…

In “musical residence” with bruno tocanne in Lyon (1997-2001), plays in duet or in trio, inviting a lot of musicians (improvised music) like: louis sclavis , serge lazarevitch, denis badault, régis huby, lucia recio…

In 2003 fond a new group with didier havet, daniel casimir, lionel martin and bruno tocanne : "y'en a qui manquent pas d'air" and play with the lambert wilson orchestra since 2004

After playing in a lot of pop-rock and progressive music orchestra in the seventies with musicians like didier thibault ("moving gelatine plates") , he met the pianist laurent cugny and played a long time with him in trio, in quartet and in the big band "lunière". Learned jazz and improvisation with the steve lacy workshop (1976) , and with some drummers like jean-louis méchali...

1984-1989 :
Plays with the "orchestre sympathique of montreal" (jean vanasse, françois richard and michel saulnier) in europe and canada (montreal jazz festival, zagreb, lubjana, skopje, belgrade, liverpool jazz festivals...) plays in quartet and trio with laurent cugny, michel bénita, jean-philippe viret, serge lazarevitch...

1989-1994 :
Plays and records with the quartet hors série (on tour in poland) with sophia domancich, philippe sellam and michel saulnier, plays and records with the sophia domancich trio (CD funerals with paul rogers)… Also plays with antoine hervé, renaud garcia-fons, serge adam, jean-rémy guédon...

1994-1998 :
Plays and records with his own band : the bruno tocanne reunion. With this band he will invit : paul rogers, sophia domancich, laurent dehors, philippe sellam, catherine delaunay…(CD odessa)
Plays in duet with the french drummer pierre tiboum guignon in a lot of festivals and make workshops

> 2005 / bruno tocanne in trio with laurent dehors and catherine delaunay : "the pier paolo theorem"
> 2005 / electro-acoustic quartet with xavier garcia (keyboards), hasse poulsen (guit) and lionel martin (saxs) on the dziga vertov's film the man with a movie camera
> since 1999 / plays and records in duet with catherine delaunay (clarinets, soprano sax, back pipe)
> since 2000 / plays and recorded 2 CD with the resistances, tocanne.martin.keller trio
with lionel martin (saxs) and benoit keller (double bass)
> from 1998 to 2001 / in “musical residence" with catherine delaunay in lyon where they invit : louis sclavis, denis badault, régis huby, alain blesing, lucia recio
> since 2001 / works with imuZZic, plays in duet with the pianist denis badault
> from 1998 to 2001 plays with the guitarist malo vallois and laurent dehors with the bruno tocanne réunion, make performances with young rappers in lyon (opera) and at the grenoble jazz festival... plays and records with the catherine delaunay's brass band "y'en a qui manquent pas d'air" with daniel casimir, didier havet and lionel martin.... Organise meetings between french and french canadian musicians in montréal (off jazz festival) and on tour in france.

"Toms and cymbals, for bruno tocanne, are like the touch of some japanese painting..." - LIBERATION

" For those who don't believe in goodness of freedom in music, Bruno Tocanne gives a qualify answer, full of musicality" - Fréderic soupa, DRUMS MAGAZINE, for the cd odessa, cd of the month

“The drummer Bruno Tocanne regularly organise music meetings with some of the most creative musicians of the French scene … Bruno Tocanne plays with these one like a catalyst of ideas, of feelings, of sensations… He can develop a subtle and generous music by his way of playing drums. Like a Paul Motian he often prefer suggest than affirm…"
- Arnaud Merlin : JAZZMAN and FRANCE MUSIQUES for the bruno tocanne réunion

“Here it’s the music that is speaking: a language of tensions, of dizziness, of uncertainty. The double bass player Paul Rogers and the drummer Bruno Tocanne are playing this game as if it was their one… Adhesion without any reserve." - Xavier Prevost, about the sophia domancich trio in "guitares et claviers"