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Benoit Delbecq

Benoît Delbecq is a multi-awarded Parisian pianist and composer, a trendsetter who persists in developing his ideas in a very rhythmic and multi-layered approach, bringing the soul of jazz to John Cage's prepared piano. Delbecq may prepare just a few strings with wood sticks, then sit at the piano transforming the instrument into a percussion-and-piano ensemble.

Delbecq is curious with sound (he also uses an electronic set up for some of his projects as in Ambitronix or Plug and Pray), with the rhythm of languages, and with mutating micro-loops he names rhythm fabrics. His musical force weaves some outstanding and compelling works inspired by sources as varied as mathematics, poetry or architecture to name a few.

Since the early nineties, Delbecq's works have received acclaim from legendary musicians such as Mal Waldron, Steve Lacy, György Ligeti, and Steve Coleman, as well as from a long list of critics, peers, and festivals curators globally.

Commencing at the age of 16-years-old, after taking a few years of classical piano lessons from the age of 6, Benoit Delbecq studied improvised music with free music pioneer Alan Silva, the founder of the Institute for Artistic and Cultural Perception in Paris. By the age of 18, he was studying sound engineering and acoustics. He joined Silva's Celestrial Communication Orchestra, while jazz giant Mal Waldron mentored him, encouraging him to seek out his own musical ideas. Once his sound engineering studies were completed, Delbecq participated in a couple of jazz workshops at the Banff Centre where he studied with Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Muhal Richard Abrams, Kenny Wheeler, and Abraham Adzenyah among other greats. He also studied composition and music analysis with Solange Ancona, a former student of Olivier Messiaen.

For composing, Delbecq uses his own graphic notation made of circles and calligrams, giving his music a particular pace and rhythmicity. Besides being a performer, a composer and a producer, Delbecq instructs at workshops and master classes across the globe.

La Gomma Di Dante

By Weave4

Label: Parco Della Musica
Released: 2026
Track listing: Miglia; Two Cross Spoke; Liens Cachés; Betulla; Shape; Flash; The Singer and the Forest; Spleen Turn; Martha Agathe; Sospeso; Shoom; La Vie Affairée; La Gomma Di Dante; Peindre Ou Faire L'Amour; Kind Of.

Den Andre Festivalen #9

by Daniel Mège
September 22, 2026

Den Andre Festivalen Oslo, Norway September 4-5, 2026 The Other Festival, The Other Collective, The Other Ensemble, Other Records: a unique binational initiative L'Autre Festival/Den Andre Festivalen (in French and Norwegian; The Other Festival) is a unique jazz festival that grew out of a master's project at the Norwegian Academy of Music ...

Phoenix Trio, Ragini Trio, Weave4, Club d'Elf, Tito Mangialajo Rantzer & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 12, 2026

From Indian classical music and Mediterranean roots to European improvisation, deep grooves, live vibes, electronic experimentation, and beyond. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Club d'Elf “Loon and Thrush" Loon & Thrush (Face Pelt / Royal Potato Family) 0:16 Host talks 6:49 ...

Phoenix Trio, Ragini Trio, Weave4, Club d'Elf, Tito Mangialajo Rantzer & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 1, 2026

From Indian classical music and Mediterranean roots to European improvisation, deep grooves, live vibes, electronic experimentation, and beyond.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Club d'Elf “Loon and Thrush" Loon & Thrush (Face Pelt / Royal Potato Family) 0:16 Host talks 6:49 Ragini Trio “Part. ...

Tyshawn Sorey, Benoit Delbecq, Enten Eller & James Wengrow

by Maurice Hogue
June 15, 2026

Drummer/composer Tyshawn Sorey's new Members... Don't is a contender for recording of the year. He reimagines fellow drummer Max Roach's Members Don't Git Weary from 1968 and reminds us that the original's political and social exhortations remain as evident and concerning today. Sorey's music is extremely powerful. Guitarist James Wengrow is an Aussie with big notes ...

FLUX - Flussi di musica creativa a Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
January 21, 2026

FLUX--Flussi di musica creativa P.A.R.C.--Performig Art Research Centre Firenze 20-30 novembe 2025 Si è spostata quest'anno al P.A.R.C. di Firenze Flux, la rassegna che Toscana Musiche da qualche anno organizzava a Pisa e alla Città del Teatro di Cascina, e che anche stavolta ha visto una ricca presenza di musicisti italiani ...

Francesco Bigoni: A Long Love Affair with Siena Jazz

by Paolo Peviani
August 20, 2025

On the occasion of the fifty-fifth edition of the Siena Jazz summer seminars, we met with saxophonist Francesco Bigoni, the new artistic and didactic director of the National Jazz Academy of Siena. With a long trajectory as both student and educator at Siena Jazz, Bigoni reflects on the institution's evolution, its unique approach to jazz training, ...

Abdou - Gouband - Warelis: Hammer, Roll and Leaf

by John Sharpe
August 12, 2025

The multinational threesome of French saxophonist Sakina Abdou, French percussionist Toma Gouband and Polish pianist Marta Warelis establishes a striking group identity on Hammer Roll Leaf. From the opening track, “Roll," the trio's compositional instincts and collective discipline distinguish them from the crowded field of free improvisers. Warelis begins with cascading piano figures--robust, resonant and allowed ...

Francesco Bigoni e Siena Jazz - una lunga storia d’amore

by Paolo Peviani
August 11, 2025

In occasione della cinquantacinquesima edizione dei seminari estivi di Siena Jazz abbiamo incontrato il sassofonista Francesco Bigoni, dallo scorso mese di aprile direttore artistico e didattico dell'Accademia Nazionale del Jazz di Siena. All About Jazz: Siena Jazz è una realtà di cui ogni jazzofilo italiano ha sentito parlare. Penso tuttavia che non tutti abbiano ...