Laurent Coq (born 22 February 1970) is a French

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pianist and composer.

Life and career

Coq began playing the piano at the age of seven.Harris, Crai
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AllMusic. Retrieved 12 April 2015. He studied at the Centre d'informations musicales in Paris, at which time he also played in a trio with bassist Jules Bikôkô bi Njami and drummer Daniel Garcia Bruno, and in a variety of other bands. Coq was awarded a government grant in 1994 to travel to the U.S., where he studied with pianists Bruce Barth,

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. Coq's 2011 album ''Rayuela'', co-led with saxophonist Miguel Zenón, was inspired by

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's novel of the same title.Odell, Jennifer (September 2012) "Miguel Zenón/Laurent Coq – Rayuela". ''Down Beat''. p. 74. The ''

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'' reviewer commented that "''Rayuela'' experiments with song structures and the connections between tunes to express emotions and motifs each artist observed by reading the

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Discography

An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release.

As leader/co-leader

References

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