Tigran Hamasyan is an Armenian jazz pianist and composer. He plays mostly original compositions, strongly influenced by the Armenian folk tradition, often using its scales and modalities. In addition to this folk influence, Hamasyan is influenced by American jazz traditions and, to some extent, a...

Elected Jazz Revelation of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique 2013, this young pianist is at the head of a remarkably close-knit trio, which highlights his classical and pop influences. His improvisations in no way flaunt virtuosity, favoring dynamics and remarkably mastered lyrical impulses...

The music of Million Dollar Baby, Letters from Iwo Jima, Gran Torino or Invictus, it was him! Son of the great Clint, Kyle Eastwood not only inherited from his illustrious father the love of cinema, but also and above all that of jazz.

Growing up in Carmel, CA, Kyle Eastwood has fond memories of...

The concert is part of the Venezia Jazz Festival, organized by Veneto Jazz.

Omar Sosa is one of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today: composer, arranger, producer, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. He fuses a wide range of world music and electronic elements with his native A...

Italian clarinetist Gabriele Mirabassi was born in Perugia and studied both modern classical music and jazz improvisation. At first, he focused on performing modern compositions under the direction of figures like John Cage and Gunther Schuller, among many others. However, in 1992, he cut the jaz...

The music of the Markus Stockhausen Group is clearly shaped by the roots of European art music. Stockhausen’s compositions form a harmonious synthesis with the art of improvisation with a lightness, a kind of playfulness, strong emotional expressions and also sometimes humorous. Open passages all...

The jazz played by the ex-drummer of Brad Mehldau - and the current one of Wayne Shorter - offers thoughtful, meditative beauty, long notes held on a kind of continuous drum solo, with changing dynamics, with solos dominated by the rounds and the quarter notes, without almost quarter notes, even ...

A vibrant ensemble nOx.3 radiates energy and the undying desire of experimentation. By combining different textures and techniques these equilibristic musicians create a playful and generous music. In 2017 the new project "Inget Nytt" is taking form together with the Swedish singer Linda Oláh. To...

Zakir Hussain is one of India's most illustrious musicians.

Son and pupil of the great tabla playerl Rakha, he went on stage from the age of 12, in the mid-1960s.
In the 1970s, he joined the adventurer John McLaughlin in the fusion group world-jazz-rock Shakti, and participates in other renown...

Becca Stevens, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who draws upon elements of jazz, chamber pop, indie rock, and folk has already won over audiences. We find her both on her own projects and in collaboration with artists from various backgrounds ranging from rock to pop, through jazz and c...

Robin Bennett, a groovy Soul Pop à la Stevie Wonder mixed with a Whitney Houston style voice on which Janis Joplin would add her bluesy touch … funky guitars, urban drums, vintage keyboards and brassy riffs ... and on stage the mix is explosive ! An electric energy reminiscent of Freddie Mercury ...

A unique performer, Natascha Rogers excels in mastering her percussion at the same time as she distills a luminous and soulful voice. She is the central character of the group she launched at the end of 2010, surrounded by a formation of musicians of variable size, from the acoustic duo to the qu...

Acclaimed by the press for her album "Heartland" in 2015, New York singer Indra Rios-Moore, based in Barcelona, released her second album in March on Verve, the legendary label of Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall or Nina Simone. Her conception of jazz has always been marked by emotional gospel, an ea...

Hip-soul Jazz, the most authentic of contemporary music!

When Sly Johnson, a hip-hop figure in France, decides to turn to jazz, he surrounds himself with the best! Then enter the seasoned drums of André Ceccarelli constantly on the lookout for innovative projects, the electric and distorted key...

Rémi Fox, Nicolas Fox and Matthieu Naulleau feed as well on sharp and technical jazz as on popular music.
Together, they combine the practice of their instruments with the use of electronic equipment, between jazzy improv and contemporary electro.

A vibrant ensemble nOx.3 radiates energy and th...

Born in 1981, Sébastien Giniaux began playing the cello at the age of 6 at the Bourg-la-Reine conservatory with Etienne Cardoze, then continued his training at the C.N.R in Boulogne and Aubervilliers-la Courneuve.

He discovered the guitar and traditional music at the age of 18, and taught himsel...

A flow between atmospheric sounds, jazz explorations and broken rhythms.

From the rooftops of Tel Aviv's towers, the undergroud Israeli scene has seen the hypnotic Buttering Trio soar. Today, firmly established in the heart of an instrumental hip-hop scene and close to the Stones Throw and Brai...

After “Either Way”, a disc with modest instrumentation but which uses strings in four pieces, Anne Ducros, the only French singer with Cécile McLorin Salvant who managed to obtain the Vocal Jazz Prize from the Académie du Jazz ( in 2001 with “Purple Songs”), returns to the orchestral splendor of ...

La Dolce Vita, Eight and a Half, The Godfather...Nino Rota has presented some of his most famous themes to the cinema. A musical imagination that inspires Giovanni Mirabassi. This piano of unbridled lyricism, this way of celebrating melody for melody, the Italian pianist is one of the few to camp...

Thierry "Titi" Robin is a French composer and improviser. His style combines Mediterranean world including Romani, Oriental and European cultures. He plays guitar, buzuq, mandolin and ’oud.

Robin builds his work through compositions, which are spread over thirty years already (his style has not ...

Marianne Trudel is a pianist, composer, improviser, and arranger. Her music, drawing from the crossroads of several influences, testifies to her open outlook on the infinite universe of music.

Energetic and passionate, she pursues a very active career giving both solo recitals and various forma...

Julien Lallier's music is nourished by multiple influences. His compositions are imaginative and colorful like rich evocations of travel. The sound pulsations of his quartet offer our ears wide melodic fields. The four artists embrace or upset the rules of a game of rare relevance, without forget...

Disappeared prematurely in 1988, Chet Baker left his indelible mark on the public. He had this accuracy, this unique emotion, this ability to make his soul speak and touch the hearts of his audience like no other. He has rightly become an iconic figure in jazz.

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was...

Mariana was born under the Dakar sun, although her parents were from the island of Sao Vicente in Cape Verde. The music she bathed in from childhood had a Cape Verdean beat, since her father, Toy Ramos (aka Toy de Bibia), played guitar for the famous group "Voz de Cabo Verde".

For a few years, M...