Yvan Robilliard, Laurent David, Justin Faulkner - Lifetimes (2023)

To carry out this adventure, it is with the eclectic bassist Laurent David, living between Brooklyn and Paris, that I choose to call on the talented African-American drummer, Justin Faulkner, who, alongside Brandford Marsalis for more than 12 years, flirts with new possible definitions of jazz. Accomplishing this encounter is for me a necessary and logical step as a jazz artist and musician. Constructing this essence and this meaning through a repertoire of original compositions, bringing it a new human, musical and spiritual dimension seems inevitable to me. My desire lies in the need to free myself from the classic jazz trio and to continue this work between groove and emotion, this marriage between Europe and black American culture. The instrumentation of my trio represents different eras, different paths of thought which offer me a wide field of arrangement. This is my project, crossbreeding, meetings, research, and the urgency to continue to grow my music.