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Jean-Christophe Maillard

Jean-Christophe Maillard is a French composer, guitarist and pianist, singer/songwriter and arranger native of Pointe-à-Pître, Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. Such atypical circumstances: early classical piano studies, life in the islands, artistic influences from the nearby American continent and the colonizers' metropolitan centers, would naturally reflect along his creative development. Maillard has been acclaimed as a musician of extraordinary breadth, technical brilliance, and fearless music making. His precocious professional carreer started in Paris, France at the age of 19, touring and recording with Grammy Award-wining artist Angélique Kidjo (1987-1988) as well as touring, recording, producing and composing for world-renown and Victoires de la Musique Award-winner accordionist Daniel Mille (four albums and worldwide tours from 1987 to 2004). Meanwhile, he has been Musical Director for famous singer/songwriter Michel Fugain (two albums recorded, tours and countless TV shows from 1989 to 1993), touring Europe with African music pioneers Toure Kunda (Bill Laswell, Carlos Santana) in 1993-1994, working with Golden Globe Nominated producer, filmmaker and writer Pierre Barouh (Claude Lelouch, Yves Montand, Baden Powell, A Man and a Woman, Ocean's Thirteen) from 1995 on. Simultaneously, Maillard owned and engineered at recording studio "Sous La Ville" in Paris, Le Marais, in association with Marc Berthoumieux (Charles Aznavour, Harry Belafonte) welcoming there the best of the European jazz scene, as well as pop icons the like of Linda Lewis (Top ten UK artist, David Bowie, Luther Vandross, Cat Stevens) from 1992-1999. In 1996, Maillard started working on new compositions for acoustic guitar based on traditional rhythms from the Caribbean which led to the release of his first solo album "Ka Suite" in early 2000; fourteen pieces of overwhelming instrumental prowesses in a unique writing approach, that have been ever since taught in conservatories ( Buenos Aires, Istanbul...) and performed by different players

Grand Baton

By Jean-Christophe Maillard

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2007