# Baptiste Trotignon

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 [fr] | Naïve | Solo piano |
| 2005 | Solo II [fr] | Naïve | Solo piano |
| 2005 | Trotignon/El-Malek | Naïve | Co-leader with David El Malek [fr] |
| 2006 | Flower Power | Naïve | Co-led with Aldo Romano |
| 2007 | Fool time | Naïve | Co-led with David El Malek [fr] |
| 2009 | Share [fr] | 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... [fr] | 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 [fr] | Naïve | |
| 2013 | Dusk Is A Quiet Place [fr] | Naïve | Duo, co-led with Mark Turner |
| 2014 | Hit [fr] | Naïve | Trio, with Thomas Bramerie (bass), Jeff Ballard (drums) |
| 2015 | Different Spaces [fr] | 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 [de] (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 | |