Nono Roland Rakotondrainibe

Born and raised in Madagascar, a country where music is everywhere and people do sing and play at any circumstance, Nono has been one of the country's pop stars in the 80/90s, surely the #1 among large cities' young people

While enjoying this pop star status, Nono has never let apart his love, jazz music; he has carried on playing at local jazz clubs in Antananarivo (Madagascar) and later on in Lyon and Paris (France) which is his hometown nowadays.

Mid-90s, Nono decided not performing nor touring anymore with his pop/rock band for focusing definitively on jazz by playing only in jazz clubs and also by being a full-time jazz professor at "Conservatoire de musique" of Lyon (the 2nd largest city in France)

Beginning of 2014, Nono has decided to come back on stage by setting up a newly jazz group, #NonoJazzQuartet, with an ambition to bring to the world of jazz an unique colorful style: a music based on a blend of malagasy soul music, brazilian bossa swing and the groovy way of playing saxophone 'à la' Michael Brecker.

#NonoJazzQuartet plays great jazz standards such as All blues, Blue in green, 500 miles high, Goodbye pork pie hat, etc... along with Nono's famous pop tubes, re-arranged to fit perfectly with #jazz and his new group style.

#NonoJazzQuartet first live performance will be on june 7, 2014 at one of Top 3 jazz clubs in Paris (France), Sunset-Sunside.

June 7 event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/747805188575070/?source=1

Gear

Saxophone tenor, guitare, piano

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