From this starting point, the trio conceived a « musical suite », performed as one long piece directly drawing from the music of the great American composer whilst being filled with the liberty-takings of European Jazz.

Whahay – an homage to the joyful exclamations dear to Mingus’ titles – was born, a trio manipulated by three actors of today’s improvised music scene, capable of combining the lyricism of the blues with noise Improv, and implacable grooves with the most exalted Free-Jazz.

Paul Rogers’ hybrid double bass, a unique 7 strings instrument added by 14 sympathetic strings transforms itself successively through the music in a Baroque Viol, an African Thumb-Piano, a drone or a northern Folk Violin. Robin Fincker’s Saxophone and Clarinet shape the in-drought to propel the music from an « Aylerian » Pithecanthropus Erectus to a version of Reincarnation of a Lovebird with Minimal Electro-Acoustic Music colours. Fabien Duscombs’ drums announces Canon coming and summons everyone for Bird Call whilst multiplying his playgrounds, thus modulating the heartbeat of the trio.

In this music, no leader or accompanist, no conservatism or false avant-gardism, just one watchword: Whahay !