Pianist Mario Canonge is undoubtedly one of the greatest representatives of West Indian music, settled in Paris in 1979, co-founder of the famous group Ultramarine, played with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nicole Croisille…; he also collaborated with Kassav, Malavoi, Michel Jonasz, Laurent Voulzy, Richard Bona, Manu Dibango…
 
Piano Mario Canonge

 

 

Zouk Out is a jazz album that conveys the pressing need to abolish convention, an inexhaustible thirst to reinvent the original combinations of the genre.
"This fourteenth opus is my personal conception of a jazz with Caribbean influences. It respects our musical traditions punctuated by this powerful original marker that is the drum. Less popular than its Spanish-speaking and English-speaking island counterparts, the syncopations of the French West Indies are no less melodious, but they are still forgotten as many renowned musicians draw their inspiration from them.
Ultimately, Zouk Out is the reflection of introspective jazz paying homage to the origins of zouk. This is the expression of who I am, a jazzman close to my roots who invites the discovery of authentic, resolutely modern phrasing. "
 
Piano Mario Canonge
Bass Michel Alibo 
Drums Arnaud Dolmen

 

 

MARIO CANONGE & KANN '

MARIO CANONGE & ANNICK TANGORRA - DUO