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Airelle Besson

Airelle Besson has enjoyed exceptional success in recent years: she has twice been named Best French Musician of the Year by the French Django Reinhardt Award Academy and as Jazz Revelation of the Year at the French Award ceremony “Les Victoires du Jazz”. At the 2015 festival ‘Jazz sous les Pommiers’ in Coutances, where she was artist in residence for 3 years, Airelle caught the public’s attention with her brand new project; a quartet with Isabel Sörling on vocals, Benjamin Moussay on piano, fender Rhodes & bass synth and Fabrice Moreau on drums. Their new album “Radio One” was released in May 2016 on label Naïve, concerts in France and worldwide followed the release. Airelle has an impressive track-record

Blossom

By Airelle Besson

Label: Bretelles Prod
Released: 2026
Track listing: Blossom; Kyoto Dans la Brume; Sans Laisser d'Adresse; Answer Me; La Course; Ida Lupino; Lontano; Le Jour J a L'Heure H; Au Lait; De Passage; Les Tuiles Bleues; Résonances

A Few of My Favorite 2026 Jazz Things (so far) - Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 3, 2026

As summer gets underway, Mondo Jazz looks back at some of the music that made the first half of 2026 so memorable.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Adam O'Farrill “Eleanor's Dance" Elephant (Out Of Your Head) 0:16 Host talks 3:24 Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project ...

Airelle Besson & Lionel Suarez: Blossom

by Ian Patterson
April 6, 2026

Trumpet-accordion duos are rare enough to be filed under 'endangered species,' so infrequent are sightings. Dave Douglas and Guy Klucevsek broke cover with a number of duets on the quartet album Charms of the Night Sky (Winter & Winter, 1998), but it was another quarter of a century before the population doubled with the appearance of ...

Alicia Hall Moran, Harriet Tubman, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Airelle Besson, Lionel Suarez & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 28, 2026

Art-songs, protest music, solo musings and instrumental storytelling make up this episode that should give you plenty to enjoy and reflect upon.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Harriet Tubman, Georgia Anne Muldrow “When You Rise" Electrical Field of Love (Pi) 0:16 Host talks 4:51 ...

Airelle Besson, Lionel Suarez: Au Lait

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 10, 2026

On Blossom, Airelle Besson and Lionel Suarez offer a compelling illustration of how instrumentalists can be storytellers just as eloquent as singers. The choice of material highlights the French duo's distinctly cinematic sensibility, with an inspired selection of originals, freely improvised pieces and compositions by kindred spirits with a strong narrative voice, such as Carla Bley. ...

Valentina Ciardelli, Anais Drago, Riccardo Angelo Strano, Frank Zappa & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 21, 2024

Here is a segment of Mondo Jazz located somewhere between French and Frank... French as in the jazz scene Airelle Besson, Oan Kim and Yonathan Avishai hail from, and Frank as in Zappa. The playlist features a tribute to Zappa's genius by Valentina Ciardelli, Anais Drago, Riccardo Angelo Strano, as well as two of the countless ...

Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival 2023

by John Sharpe
June 8, 2023

Vilnius Mama Jazz Festival State Youth Theater Vilnius, Lithuania May 25-28, 2023 Introduction Now the largest city in the Baltic States, the Lithuanian capital Vilnius once again hosted the Mama Jazz Festival for its 23rd edition. While booking acts which might please a wide range of music lovers, the Festival ...

Beth Orton, Robin Holcomb, New Mastersounds, Harlem Gospel Travelers & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 1, 2022

Unbridled fun, the long tail of Hal Willner's work, an all-star band that celebrates 40 years of the Jazz sous les pommiers Festival, and jazz inspired by Maurice Ravel, soul, funk, gospel blues and folk are at the heart of this week's edition of Mondo Jazz. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo ...

Resetting the Standard - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 11, 2022

This is the second part of an edition of Mondo Jazz that explores the repertoire built over the years by countless women composers, which are in part included in New Standards, the collection of 101 compositions by women composers curated by Terri Lyne Carrington for Berklee Press. For our selection we focus on instrumental tunes by ...