Michel Donato, Pierre Leduc, Richard Provençal - Déjà Jaz (2006)

Years have passed since the release of Déjà Jazz on the label Justin Time. However, the trio of renowned musicians, Michel Donato (double bass), Pierre Leduc (piano) and Richard Provençal (drums), continues to defend this album, which was nominated at the ADISQ in 2007, In the Jazz interpretation category. Does this mean that with the tour that is inspired by this engraved, it has pierced the secret of longevity? "Well, how to say ... We've never really been on tour," Provençal admits, joined on the phone on a beautiful sunny afternoon. In fact, Déjà Jazz is mainly a pretext for the concert of the trio in Gentilly. "Let's just say that we're not going to do just CD plays, there will be others," says the drummer, "because we've been a long-standing association, we've known each other since the 1960s. , We took different tangents in terms of our careers, but in the 1990s we all found ourselves teaching at the Université de Montréal and we said, "Why would not we give back The trio on the track? "(Laughs) So that's why we're together, we know each other very well, we've become good friends, but we know each other mostly musically. Our game, we feel a great deal of connivance. " A pause, then he goes on: "The magic, if we can say it, happens between the three of us, it's instinctive, spontaneous, there's not one night we're going to play the same piece." (Translated from French.)