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Richard Razaf

Anders Ulrich

Hubert Dupont

Born: May 5, 1959

The poetic alchemy in his music shows his fascination for new forms - improvisation has to be a game with new rules – as well as unexpected elements of rooted traditions, with an expressive and steady tone. In 2005, he was named as the best Newcomer of 2005 for his bass-solo album Ultraboles. He leads Dupont T, inviting indo-new-yorker sax player Rudresh Mahanthappa, and releases the acclaimed Spider’s Dance in 2007. He leads Golan and Jasmim, two jazz bands with contemporary oriental flavours. He leads VoxXL!, an encounter between Mike Ladd’s spoken word and its traditional Senegalese version : the “tassou”, sung by Ibrahima Diasse. He plays the double-bass in KARTET (since 1990 with Benoit Delbecq, Guillaume Orti & Chander Sardjoe), and electric bass in THÔT, Stephane Payen’s band

Nono Roland Rakotondrainibe

Composer, singer and multi-instumentist music player, Nono (Roland Rakotondrainibe) plays sax, guitar and piano since he was a teenager. 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..

Edgardo Plasencia

Born: December 15

I am a music composer and producer. I have spent my formative years intensively experiencing the development of the greatest pop and rock music of the music history. After that, I decided to become a musician , increasingly learning in depth the intelectual and emotional side of the classical music, jazz in all its forms , and avantgarde orchestral and chamber music. I became a composer of so called academic music , but instead of following blindly the dogma and ideologies related to the avantgarde music , I let myself be nurtured by other music areas , mainly modern jazz and electroacoustic music and by the newest expressions of visual art. At this stage of my life I'm highly involved in the composing and playing of jazz music : bebop, modal jazz and jazz rock fusion mainly.

Agathe Iracema

Young Agathe charms the audience with a warm and sultry voice, she has an incredible scenic presence and an impressive artistic maturity. She has been immersed from a very young age in music, and her franco-brazilian background gives her a precious musical richness. Agathe Iracema, was born in Paris, with a brazilian father and a french mother. She was immersed in music from a very Young age in music, and her franco-brazilian background gives her a precious musical palette from which to draw.jazz through tapdance and through her brazilian bass player father. She’s all ears and eyes. At the age of 14, she received the help of the american singer Sheila Jordan, she records three tunes with Vincent Bourgeyx (piano) and Juan-Sebastien Jimenez (double bass). The following year saw the first performance of the ‘Agathe Jazz Quartet’ at the Café Universel Jazz Club

Theo Girard

After surveying scenes from 4 continents with projects as varied as Bratsch, Macha Gharibian, le Bruit du [sign], Sibiel or Volo, Théo Girard releases the first album in his name featuring french trumpet player Antoine Berjeaut and British drummer Seb Rochford (Sons of Kemet, Polar Bear). 30YearsFrom is a project that evokes the first fruits, the first spark, the birth. As Théo Girard explains : « I grew up in a musical environment, my mother was a freelance costume designer for the opera and my father was the founding violinist of Bratsch (a famous French band) and also played in free jazz bands like Alan Silva’s Celestrial Communication Orchestra in the 80s

Luigi Grasso

Luigi Grasso born in 1986, has emerged as one of Italy’s most exciting jazz stars. Since his 12 years old he was invited around the world as guest in different type of bands, from duo to Big Band. Thanks to the exposure provided by his parents, he discovered jazz and classical music at a very early age. He began saxophone studies at age 5 as a cure for asthma, and was almost entirely self-taught until the age of 11 when he started to attend clinics held by the Berklee College of Music at the Umbria Jazz Festival (Perugia, Italy). He was subsequently offered a full tuition scholarship to travel to Boston for the Berklee Summer Program. In 1997, he won the international young talent competition “Bravo Bravissimo”, which launched his professional jazz career, resulting in performances at the most prestigious festivals, clubs, theaters and TV shows throughout Europe. In 1999, at the age of 13, his debut recording “A Love Supreme” (Java records), was released. He continued his studies in Italy with the American guitarist Agostino Di Giorgio, in addition to his close apprenticeship with NEA Jazz Master Barry Harris as a participant and educational assistant in Dr

Olivier Bogé

Born: June 29, 1981

Noël Akchoté