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Chyco Siméon

Born: May 4, 1966

Of Caribbean origin, Chyco Simeon spent his childhood in Montrouge, in the southern suburbs of Paris. His music-loving father passed on to him, instilled in him his passion for music, jazz, salsa, classical and, of course, the music of his original land, the Caribbean. Listening to these varied sounds, little Chyco opens up multiple melodic spaces that will no doubt influence his career, his tastes and his creations. In 1982, this self-taught and talented musician moved to his mother's home in Martinique, a beneficial homecoming that would bring him sunshine in the body, swing in his rhythms, new inspirations and fruitful encounters. After testing the guitar, keyboards and drums, Chyco Simeon puts his alert fingers on the bass, which will then become his favorite instrument. While studying in high school, he became a bass player for a group called "Sunshine". The formation is as short as it is popular and is made up of Tony Chasseur, Pipo Gertrude, Eric Bonheur, Philippe Joseph, instrumentalists and performers, sure values ​​of today's musical landscape.

Dave Herridge

Born: March 24, 1940

Dave was born on 24 March 1940 and was classically trained in piano from the age of 6, studying with Marie Gardner LRAM, Kathleen Long FRCM CBE, Jacques Fevrier CNSP and jazz greats Art Simmonds and Aaron Bridgers. Over a career spanning five decades David has played at a number of renowned venues in Paris and London including the Savoy, Ritz, Dorchester, Hilton Park Lane and Clifton Ford Hotels in London and the Crillon in Paris. He has also combined his passion for Jazz and love of Paris, now his home, by playing a large number of the city’s renowned jazz clubs including "Le Chat Qui Peche", Les Trois Maillets" and La Cigale with Jack Butler and Benny Walters and occasional invited guests such as Milt Hinton and Albert Nicholas. ​ Dave has also pursued a distinguished academic career in the UK heading two high school music departments as well as, later in his career, providing music and drama coaching to children with special needs and piano tuition at the BRIT school of performing arts in Croydon, UK. In recent years, following retirement from teaching, Dave has toured with the Pete Allen Dixieland Jazz Band and continues to make resident and guest appearances at small venues near his home in Paris such as Le Petit Journal (Montparnasse and St Michel), Au Point de Salut and Le Caveau de la Huchette.

Remi Toulon

Rémi Toulon began his piano studies early and found his way to jazz with an interest Brazilian and Latin music. He played festivals in Sao Paulo, Oslo, notably in Marciac, France, Vienna, and Uppssla. For 10 years, he toured with his trio Take 3 and made five albums with them. As composer arranger and pianist he has been involved in more than 20 recordings, notably his most recent project "Adagiorinho" where he added Ze Luis Nacimiento on percussion and Sébastien Charlier on harmonica to his Take 3 Trio to go where jazz meets Latin music.

TenGanG

Born: June 19

TenGanG is a Cameroonian artist (singer, guitarist, songwriter) living in France. He is passionate about all the music of the world, especially Jazz and Progressive Rock. Previous album of TenGanG "Symphony Of Noise In French Troubled Waters", with guest singers, was a Progressive-Rock album. In this new album that will go on sale online January 1, 2018, "Fusic-Jazz-Funk To My Musical Heiress With Nothing But My Male Voice", he changes totally universe. This time it is a fusion of Jazz and Funk and other influences, and, apart from the guitar in a song, all the other sounds of the album are performed by the single voice of the singer, influenced by Bobby McFerrin

Nick Bresco

Born: July 18, 1975

Nick Bresco was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in a family of artists. Bathed in music from a young age, he Begins the violin at the School of Music of Dubrovnik at the age of five He decides to turn to the double bass to follow his father's footsteps and his taste for Jazz Pop and Funk influences. After a adolescence shared between the studies and the scene of the family Jazz Cafe, he graduated from the Academy of Music of LOVRAN in Croatia. In 2009 after several years in a group, during a long stay in New York, Nick discovered an interest in singing and self-taught he began a solo career as a singer- bassist and he created the brand Nick Bresco. He launches as well in the great Jazz standards as in the mythical titles of Pop that he performs in double bass-voice. Since 2013, the chance of dating has made him share his life between Dubrovnik and Paris where he has the opportunity to do some great scenes (New-morning, Sunset-Sunside, Gibus ...) and indulge in his second passion photography ...

Krystle Warren

Born: June 13, 1981

Seeing Krystle Warren perform for the first time is a striking experience. First, there is the utter improbability of it all: she shuffles onstage with little more than a low- key hello, and proceeds to sing with an effortless power that completely belies her tiny frame. Hearing her fill a crowded club without using a microphone… that’s a Voice. And then there are her vocal stylings, which feature a melisma as rich as that of Wonder or Hathaway, but put all of that technique at the service of music that has never heard such a thing—folk and country, songs influenced by everyone from Nick Drake to Joni Mitchell to Willie Nelson

Sarah Lancman

Born: January 20, 1989

« She is truly a great new voice for Jazz » : this is what Quincy Jones said about Sarah Lancman when she received the 1st Prize of the International Competition of the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2012. A multi-talented musician, Sarah Lancman is a pianist and a composer. She is one of the finest singers to discover. She starts the piano at the age of 7 and began with a classical training then a jazz one at the Paris conservatory. She becomes passionate about musical arrangement and composition and is graduated from the Haute Ecole de Musique – Departement Jazz de Lausanne in piano Jazz and singing. Since then, she took part in several famous Jazz Festivals and jazz scenes such as in Paris at the Sunset Jazz Club, Petit Journal Montparnasse, at the Jazz Festival in Monaco, in Switzerland: Chorus Jazz Club in Lausanne, Villars sur Ollon, Montreux, Verbier, Ascona , Burghausen, Luzern, in Bavaria in Burghausen, and also in Turkey at the Jazz Club les Ambassadeurs in Istanbul… In January 2015, she released her first album « Dark », produced by Blew Records Music Label and is well welcomed by critics, including that of Antoine Garance from Citizen Jazz Magazine: « Sarah Lancman is excellent in this intimate jazz atmosphere that envelops us like a sudden fog drilled by a sunbeam

Antoine Karacostas

Antoine Karacostas is a 34-year-old pianist of Greek origin. In 2017, he released his first album, Trails, in which he presented a repertoire of personal compositions and arrangements of traditional Greek songs, influenced by modern jazz from New York and the Middle East; a singular mix of haunting lyricism. The pianist enthusiastically resumed the composition to continue the work initiated with the first opus. With Insulary Tales, he began writing a series of compositions that evoke as many stories lived or imagined around the idea of insularity and the rigour of the natural elements that we experience, the poetry of the Cyclades landscapes and the extraordinary encounters that we make there

Jean-Philippe Dary

Born: 1966

Jean-Philippe Dary was born in 1966 in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France, of fresh Guyanese parents. He started his musical career with the family. As in many family Dom-Tom, music is omnipresent in everyday life. Jean-Philppe Dary naturally integrated the magic function of bassist in one of the Caribbean orchestras of Frejus / St Raphael "Tropical Ambience". In the middle of the eighties, pianos-bar and private parties in the south began, thanks to a big brother Max Marolany, the warm atmosphere of the evenings and beaches of Saint Tropez ... "It makes you want to make people kiss , Give joy, it's a nice job! "