CANONGE ZENINO

For over 19 years, Martinique pianist Mario Canonge and Marseille double bassist Michel Zenino have been delighting fans of authentic swing every Wednesday by performing on the stage of the Parisian jazz club, the Baiser Salé. Their weekly complicity has become an unmissable event A meeting between two jazz personalities and sister musics. What is a piano-double bass duo in jazz? The first answer is the one given by Mario Canonge: "First of all, it's a kind of sidelining of the drums, without refusal. We sometimes play with great drummers, Tony Rabeson, Simon Goubert, Keith Copeland, Arnaud Dolmen, but in a duo, nothing is forgiven. The drummer makes everything easy. It's reassuring, convenient, whereas in a duo you have to be attentive at all times. You can't relax, and besides, after an hour and a half of dialogue, you're almost happy to stop. The exercise requires real concentration. It doesn't allow any weakness in the harmonies, otherwise the discourse exhausts itself."