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Pierre Villeret
About Me
Vents d’Est is an european artistic collective based in Rheims,
Champagne-Ardenne, founded in 1998 by pianist Francis Le Bras &
trumpetist Serge Adam. Now, it includes Francis Le Bras, german
saxophonist Daniel Erdmann, poet André Ze Jam Afane and
photographer / videogra- pher Alain Julien. Vents d’Est works on the
management and booking of their projects.
Vents d’Est also works as a management & booking agency for
associated musicians who are pianist Benoît Delbecq, drummer Edward
Perraud, guitarist Hasse Poulsen, Fantastic Merlins from Minneapolis,
and develops cross-border
partnerships especially with Charles Gil / Vapaat äänet (Helsinki,
Finland), Tobias Schuster / Shoestring Jazz Booking (Berlin, Germany)
& french-american label Nato.
In 2008, Vents d’Est developed a label activity, producing and publishing
a few recordings. Our CDs are distributed by Anticraft in France, Nova
in United Kingdom and NRW in Ger- many and are also available on
www.ventsdest.com. We are part of the french federation of
independent labels Les Allumés du Jazz.
