Exchange Cholet Känzig Papaux Trio

• 1 2nd Miniature 04:35
• 2 Carrousel 04:32
• 3 1st Miniature 04:26
• 4 Last Circle 04:40
• 5 Exchange 03:16
• 6 Hot Song 05:57
• 7 3rd Miniature 03:36
• 8 Some Other Song 03:52
• 9 Because of Schumann 04:42
• 10 Diss 04:44
• 11 Petite Chanson 03:27
• 12 Norfolk Song 03:47
• Total Runtime 51:34

Info for Exchange

EXCHANGE is the seventh album by Cholet Känzig Papaux Trio. It once again illustrates the obvious cohesion of this trio in which striking melodic verve, harmonic hypersensitivity and astonishing rhythmic work balance each other out.

Exchange: Cholet’s expressive and subtly nuanced playing, Känzig’s fascinating and precise sounds and Papaux’s elegant and flawless rhythms join together in an atmosphere that is at same time withdrawn and completely open to the world. Exchange: The obvious confidence between the three musicians allows each one to take his place with a great pleasure to play together.

Exchange: Fruit of a collective work of more than a decade, a new musical orientation becomes yet essential, more organic and orchestral, alternating compositions and entirely improvised pieces.

Exchange: The listening becomes more refined and reflexes converge quite naturally into a controlled universe in which the border contracts itself in formal and instantaneous compositions.

In short EXCHANGE is the sum of musical and human interaction, which the musicians want to share.

„Exchange is a deceptively subtle collective that with dynamic melodies but with a lyrical intimacy transcending the improvisational genre.“ (Brent Black, www.criticaljazz.com)

Jean-Christophe Cholet, piano, Fender Rhodes
Heiri Känzig, double bass
Marcel Papaux, drums

Cholet Känzig Papaux Trio
Created in February 2002 at the theater of Auxerre which invited Jean-Christophe Cholet, the birth of the Cholet-Känzig-Papaux Trio allowed the three musicians to gather around the pianists music and then to evolve naturally towards a common reflection.

Jean-Christophe Cholet is an extraordinary, unclassifiable pianist and composer, who combines listening, harmonic sophistication, marked sense of melody and the art of nuance and richness of timbres. Heiri Känzig and Marcel Papaux create some of the best rhythms in Europe. Individually, their development has given the opportunity to listen to them with: Michael Brecker, Billy Hart, Vienna Art Orchestra, Dewey Redman, Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Chris Potter, Franco Ambrosetti, Michel Portal, Arthur Blythe…

Their range of play is impressive from the minimalist accompaniment to the feverish groove, both in dynamics and in styles. On stage as well as in the studio, the understanding between the three musicians is evident. The trio is playing with ease and pleasure displaying sensitive play and an awareness of sound of very great quality which makes the most of the intentions of each one.

Their fourth album "Beyond the Circle" (2008) definitely confirms the aesthetic direction and clarifyies the trio´s identity which it has developed since its creation. It follows a wonderful collaboration with the famous American saxophonist Charlie Mariano recorded for Enja Records in March 2006 in the album « Silver Blue » (distr. Harmonia Mundi). The next program will be created in August 2010 during an artist residency at Bird's Eyes' in Basel (CH). New CD-Release "Connex": Autumn 2011

This album contains no booklet.