Raynald Colom trumpet, Tony Tixier piano, Joe Sanders double bass, Francesco Ciniglio drums.
In 1964 a Canadian television reporter asked Duke Ellington: “Where do your ideas come from?” “Ideas?” he answered, looking puzzled, “What I have is a million dreams, nothing more, I’m dreaming all the time.” “But I hear you playing the piano,” insisted the interviewer, and Ellington replied: “No, that’s not a piano, it’s a dream!” This famous moment has inspired trumpeter Raynald Colom to entitle his new album “A Million Dreams” (Whirlwind, 2022), recorded live in Pontinia (Italy) with Tony Tixier (piano), Joe Sanders (double bass) and Francesco Ciniglio (battery). Hailed by the critics, the album captures the idiosyncrasies of the artist, Raynald Colom, better than any other. He will defend to the last the idea of work crossing boundaries and breaking down barriers linked both to music in the broadest sense of the word and to landscape and light, and in dialogue with different artistic expressions. “We don’t think about notes, we think about dreams,” says Colom himself in the sleeve notes of an album that includes songs by Jimmy Rowles, Wayne Shorter, Edward Bland and Paco de Lucía, as well as his own pieces inspired by Scriabin’s synesthesia theory – and the colour of the Barcelona dawn. Or by a hypothetical conversation between the saxophonist Logan Richardson and Joan Miró. Born in Vincennes (France) in 1978, Raynald Colom is one of the most important musicians of his generation. In his prolific career, he has forged close working partnerships with the likes of Jesse Davis, Mulgrew Miller, Greg Osby, Nicholas Payton, Perico Sambeat, Marcelo Mercadante and Chicuelo, among other illustrious names from an extensive list.
