Education
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.
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 began playing the piano at the age of seven. Coq was awarded a government grant in 1994 to travel to the United States., where he studied with pianists Bruce Barth, John Hicks and Mulgrew Miller. Coq"s 2011 album Rayuela, co-led with saxophonist Miguel Zenón, was inspired by Julio Cortázar"s novel of the same title.
The Down Beat reviewer commented that "Rayuela experiments with song structures and the connections between tunes to express emotions and motifs each artist observed by reading the ".
