Mario Canonge Trio - Nice Jazz Fest

Thanks to his inimitable touch and piano playing, rooted in pure Martinican tradition, he soon became a veritable legend. With his left hand, you can hear the beat of the Bèlè drum, the heart of Madinina (Martinique), and with his virtuoso right hand, you can easily detect the vigor and heat of the erupting Mount Pelé. There isn't a pianist in the West Indies today who doesn't owe something to Mario, so great and inescapable is his influence. Mario Canonge seems to have found his spiritual and artistic essence with his magical, telluric trio. Like three "AYURVÉDA" elements, MARIO CANONGE, MICHEL ALIBO and ARNAUD DOLMEN poetically reveal themselves as fire, earth and air... In their quest for an imaginary absolute, these three shamans come together to celebrate the very essence of the Earth. After more than twenty albums to its name, this new opus named CALDEIRA (the circular depression at the heart of a volcano) recalls the learned music of this Trio, born of an eruption of ideas as creative as they are innovative.learned music of this Trio, born of an eruption of ideas as creative as they are innovative.