Trio Grande
LAURENT DEHORS - saxophones, clarinets, bagpipes, recorder, harmonica
MICHEL MASSOT - euphonium, sousaphone, trombone
MICHEL DEBRULLE - drums, percussion
CHEEKY JAZZ — The smallest big band in the world is set to celebrate 35 years of musical complicity, something rare enough to be highlighted!
Their sixth album Impertinence, co-produced by IGLOO and W.E.R.F. Records (2022), received the CHOC Award from Jazz Magazine (FR).
This all-terrain trio charms the public both in the intimacy of a club and on the big festival stages. Their music is described as libertarian, joyful and communicative.
"(...) Their jazz, the one they play, they love it, period! And you can feel it, you can even see it! Far from identity conflicts, the only thing that matters here is the dance of tempos and the emotion shared through the language of sounds. In permanent balance between momentum and suspension, Trio Grande is the band of maturity, of happiness found through experience and time, a tribute to life and beauty, far from any silly intentions.
At times, a tremendous power constantly coexists with a supernatural delicacy. In compositions that one would almost like to call "successful", so much so that they take you extremely high from the very first seconds - this is often a sign - the companions inhabit their music with a lyrical fever admirably served by the entrechats sometimes of an inventive Michel Massot, sometimes of a powerfully architectural Michel Debrulle. Then Laurent Dehors returns the favour, with a rigorous phrasing combined with a splendid colouring. The spectator is transported like from the palm of a hand and placed on the other side of the landscape, quite transfigured. You too will be transported and will not see time pass! (...)" Anonymous
The trio are also embarking on new collaborations:
with the Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloiemans, with the Moroccan oud player Driss El Maloumi, with the English pianist Matthew Bourne (two CDs which won awards at the Octaves de la Musique in 2008 and 2011), with the dancer-choreographer David Hernandez, with trumpeter Jean-Pol Estiévenart and guitarist Nicolas Dechêne for the accompaniment of the silent film Our hospitality by Buster Keaton.
