The formations

A Piacere

A Piacere is a saxophones quartet involving different types of this instrument, but mainly based on the popular association of the alto, the tenor, the baritone and the soprano.

Associated with the reeds quartet Aulodia, it gives the "Wind Septet", another innovative formation!

From the solo to the saxophone quartet

The musicians: Jean-Pierre Caens, Ludovic Tallarico, François Leclaircie, Jean-Christophe Di Costanzo

For various and innovated repertoires.
The preferences are for the actual music, including the one close to jazz. Nevertheless, this orientation does not hinder A Piacere to propose you some more classical or thematic program (including entertainment pieces): Phil Woods, Martial Solal, David Liebman, Thélonius Monk, François Jeanneau, Mike Mower, Michel Legrand, Leonard Bernstein, Georges Gershwin, Jean Sébastien Bach, Giovanni Gabrieli, Anton Dvorak, Borodine, A. Glazounov…

Discography

CD "Une anche passe" CY 1115
CD "Triptyque" Distribution Musidisc
CD "Portrait" CD de promotion

See the page Discography for more details.

Dedication

"A Piacere s'impose en ignorant la crise d'identité."

"A Piacere imposes itself ignoring the identity crisis".

Revue "Diapason Harmonie" 1992

"Le quatuor de saxophones A PIACERE est une de ces formations que l’on voit éclore loin de Paris et dont on se dit immédiatement qu’elles valent les meilleures. Ces quatre musiciens possèdent une magnifique maîtrise instrumentale qui leur permet d’aborder avec succès toutes les tendances du répertoire".

"The saxophones quartet A PIACERE is one of this formations that we see emerging far from Paris but that we know immediately that they match the best. These four musicians control magnificently their instrument which let them work successfully with all the repertoire."

Martial Solal, jazz pianist, arranger, composer and conductor

"La musique s’ouvre, les musiciens bougent, les musiciens se rencontrent, les jazzmen sortent de leur ghetto, les classiques s’encanaillent… Je voudrais remercier le quatuor A PIACERE d’avoir su me faire entendre « une anche passe » mieux que je ne pouvais l’imaginer moi même".

"Music is opening, musicians move, musicians meet, jazzmen get out from their ghetto, classics get naughty... I would like to thank the quartet A PIACERE for making me listen « une anche passe » better than I could imagine".

François Jeanneau, saxophonist and composer

The wind septet

Using the two quartets Aulodia and A Piacere, Jean-Pierre Caens decided to gather them in order to associate the color of the reeds with the dynamism of the saxophones (four saxophones, plus an oboe, a clarinet and a bassoon), for a program "From Europe to New York".