Baptiste Trotignon

Baptiste Trotignon
Born	1974 (age 49–50) Paris, France
Genres	Jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Piano
Years active	1990s–present
Website	baptistetrotignon.com

Baptiste Trotignon (born 1974) is a French jazz pianist and composer.

Life and career

Trotignon was born near Paris in 1974. He started playing the violin at the age of 6 and the piano three years later. His first solo piano album was 2003's Solo. Trotignon composes music and plays "interpretations of music from Led Zeppelin and [Bob] Dylan to Edith Piaf".

Playing style

The Daily Telegraph's Ivan Hewett wrote on the originality of Trotignon's style in 2009 that "Any references are only subliminally present in a style that's very much his own. He has certain favourite devices such as rapid-fire repetitions of single notes, and machine-gun alternations of the hands". The Guardian's John Fordham, commenting on a Trotignon duo concert with percussionist Minino Garay stated that the pianist's playing contained "startling chordal exclamations, plaintively romantic lyricism and [...] a collage of liquid lines and stuttering drumlike invitations to his partner".

Discography

As leader or co-leader

Year recorded	Title	Label	Personnel/Notes
2000	Fluide	Naïve	Trio
2001	Sightseeing	Naïve	Trio
2003	Solo	Naïve	Solo piano
2005	Solo II	Naïve	Solo piano
2005	Trotignon/El-Malek	Naïve	Co-leader with David El Malek
2006	Flower Power	Naïve	Co-led with Aldo Romano
2007	Fool time	Naïve	Co-led with David El Malek
2009	Share	Naïve	Some tracks trio, with Baptiste Matt Penman (bass), Otis Brown III and Eric Harland (drums, separately); some tracks quintet, with Mark Turner (sax), Tom Harrell (flugelhorn) added
2010	Suite...	Naïve	Quartet, with Mark Turner (tenor sax), Jeremy Pelt (trumpet), Matt Penman (bass), Eric Harland (drums); on one track, Thomas Bramerie (bass) and Franck Agulhon (drums) replace Penman and Harland
2012	Song, Song, Song	Naïve
2013	Dusk Is A Quiet Place	Naïve	Duo, co-led with Mark Turner
2014	Hit	Naïve	Trio, with Thomas Bramerie (bass), Jeff Ballard (drums)
2015	Different Spaces	Naïve	Piano concerto written by Trotignon, played by Nicholas Angelich with the Orchestre national Bordeaux Aquitaine, conducted by Paul Daniel (Naïve)
2016	Chimichurri	Okeh	Duo, co-led with Minino Garay (cajón, percussion)
2017	Ancestral Memories	Okeh	Co-led with Yosvany Terry (saxophones, chekeré). With Yunior Terry (bass) and Jeff "Tain" Watts (drums)
2019	You've Changed	Sony Classical	Solo piano, duos with Joe Lovano, Avishai Cohen, Ibrahim Maalouf, Thomas de Pourquery, Vincent Ségal, and Camélia Jordana (Sony Classical)
2022	Anima	Alpha Classics	Piano, with Orchestre Victor Hugo and Jean-François Verdier (conductor)
2022	Symphonie du ponant	Coop Breizh	Piano, with Didier Squiban and Orchestre National de Bretagne
2022	Body and Soul	Paradise Improvisé	Solo piano

As sideman

Year recorded	Leader	Title	Label
1995	Jean-Luc Chevalier	Hommage à Jaco	Seventh Records
1998	Claudia Solal	My Own Phoolosophy	Soundhills
2001	Christian Brun	French Songs	Elabeth
2001	Pierrick Pédron	Cherokee	Elabeth
2002	Doudou Gouirand	Les Racines Du Ciel	RDC Records
2002	Moutin Reunion Quartet	Power Tree	Shai - Dreyfus/USA
2002	Bill Mobley & The Space Time Big Band New Light	Bill Mobley & The Space Time Big Band New Light	Space Time Records
2003	Jerome Barde	Melodolodie	Sunnyside
2003	OLH Orchestra/Geoffroy Tamisier & Kenny Wheeler	G Meets K	Yolk records
2003	Hervé Krief	Paradis artificiels	NextMusic
2003	Moutin Reunion Quartet	Red Moon	Nocturne
2004	Rick Margitza	Bohemia	Nocturne
2004	André Ceccarelli	Carte blanche	Dreyfus Jazz
2006	Aldo Romano	Chante	Dreyfus Jazz
2007	Stefano di Battista	Trouble Shootin'	Blue Note
2008	Jean Fauque	13 aurores
2008	Franck Agulhon	Solisticks/2
2009	André Ceccarelli	Sweet People	(CamJazz)
2011	Aldo Romano	Inner Smile
2012	Jacques Schwarz-Bart	Art of Dreaming	(Aztec Musique)
2013	Marc Miralta & Perico Sambeat	Flamenco Reunion	(Contrabaix)
2014	Mélanie Dahan	Keys
2014	Minino Garay	Vamos
2017	Kate Lindsey	Thousands of miles