https://en.collectifdulion.com/trio-grande The smallest big band in the world celebrate 30 years of musical complicity in 2022, something rare enough to be highlighted! They release a new and sixth album for their anniversary. This all-purpose trio can charm the audience just as well in the intimacy of a club as on a big festival stage. Their music is described as libertarian, joyful and communicative. LAURENT DEHORS saxophones, clarinets, bagpipes, jaw harp, harmonica | MICHEL MASSOT euphonium, sousaphone, trombone | MICHEL DEBRULLE drums, percussions "(...) This trio solves the question of jazz today... Should we really label everything? Their jazz, the one they play, they love it, period! And you can feel it, you can even see it! Far from identity conflicts, the only thing that matters here is the dance of tempos and the emotion shared through the language of sounds. In permanent balance between momentum and suspension, Trio Grande is the band of maturity, of happiness found through experience and time, a tribute to life and beauty, far from any silly intentions. At times, a tremendous power constantly coexists with a supernatural delicacy. In compositions that one would almost like to call "successful", so much so that they take you extremely high from the very first seconds - this is often a sign - the companions inhabit their music with a lyrical fever (...)" Anonymous