THE NEW SENSATION OF THE HEXAGONAL PIANO --- Laurent Coulondre is part of this young generation of musicians who participates with talent and without taboo to the evolution of jazz in France. - Equipped with an unparalleled rhythmic and harmonic sense, he expresses himself on the piano and the organ in unlimited freedom, demonstrating for his young age a musicality, a mastery and a sensitivity breathtaking. - Essential qualities that are not unlike those of the great names of jazz. As if that were not enough, Laurent Coulondre stands out through a completely new concept of "trio reversible" creating an unprecedented sound identity. Oscillating between classical trio piano / double bass / drums and trio organ / bass 6 strings and drums, Laurent Coulondre Trio proposes an amazing and detonating music, always in a creative process but without ever leaving the audience aside. Critical We are talking, however, of the winning group of the last National Jazz Competition in La Défense. The humility and youthful freshness with which the pianist and organist presents himself to the public of the Astrada quickly unveils an astonishing safety of touch and the harmonic palette of a musician who knows already long. The correctness of the collective investment is in the end, whereas it is only at the end of a course that will prove to be without fault throughout a stunning slalom whose doors mark out an entirely original repertoire. And the slope is very steep, made up of an alternation of impossible metrics, alternations or reversals of perspectives always perfectly scripted and rendered by the titles (Parallel Spaces, or the tryptic Taking off Plane Crash Landing) Impressive takes on an additional dimension in the collective implementation, because these structures are never only a pretext for the game, and a performance of every moment that is the fruit of an incredibly complicit and united group. It would be necessary to describe the energy and the quality of attack especially developed at the organ. The glances exchanged with Rémi Bouyssière and Martin Wangermée, both of precision and exemplary relevance, are only the visible part of the quality of interaction that makes the trios of exception. Difficult to make a reservation, but in this context I have sometimes struggled to find my account of simple listener in a tense and concentrated to the extreme, time may lack to balance, listening to these demanding qualities and the relaxation that Would offer breaks to this concentration. More reason to rush on the recordings available or coming of this trio, and taste them in a less constrained time - Jazz magazine Record Label: Sound Surveyor Style: Jazz