Hugo Lippi

Over the past fifteen years, Hugo Lippi has become one of the most sought-after European guitarists. We could see him alongside the most prestigious musicians.

Fabien Mary is one of the best trumpet player of the contemporary jazz scene. He played with Wynton Marsalis, Diana Krall, Benny Golson, Harold Mabern, Johnny Griffin, Steve Turre, Michel Legrand, Archie Shepp and many others. The story behind this album is a broken arm in New York. Or how French trumpet player Fabien Mary transcended his forced immobilization by composing ‘Left Arm Blues’, an album of originals that refect the hopes from a young jazzman in a city that never sleeps and always swings.

D’origine barcelonaise, le saxophoniste et clarinettiste Esaie Cid débute sa carrière au sein du Barcelona Jazz Orchestra, big-band dirigé par Oriol Bordas, avec lequel il enregistre et tourne avec Jesse Davis ainsi que Frank Wess. Arrivé en France en 2002, il fonde le groupe Jazzpel, quintet jazz aux influences gospel avec trois albums à son actif. Installé depuis 2005 à Paris, Esaie Cid investit la scène du Jazz français en multipliant ses collaborations en tant que sideman avec de nombreux musiciens (Mourad Benhammou, Fabien Mary, Michel Pastre, François Laudet, Gilles Rea, Jean Pierre Derouard, Hugo Lippi, …), et en créant son propre quartet et quintet (enregistrés chez Fresh Sound Records).

Sophie Alour (born 24 December 1974) is a French jazz musician who plays saxophone, clarinet, and flute. Alour started playing the clarinet at the music school in Quimper, when she was 13 years of age. When she was 19, she started to play saxophone, for the most part self-taught, supplemented with courses at CIM in Paris, and IACP.

Fabien Mary, Hugo Lippi, Fabien Marcoz, Mourad Benhammou, Frank Basile. Fabien Mary has received five nominations for the Django Reinhardt Prize "French musician of the year" by the Academy of Jazz between 2008 and 2013. Born in 1978 in Normandy, Mary Fabien started his career when he settled in Paris at the age of twenty. In a very short time, he received the coveted Django d'Or Young Talent prize for his debut album "Twilight" and the Jazz à Juan Revelation Prize. Fabien remained busy since then, touring with his own band or sharing the stage and recording with a long list of great musicians which includes Wynton Marsalis, Diana Krall, Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, Harold Mabern, Steve Turre, Michel Legrand, Dave Liebman or Archie Shepp…

It sometimes seems that Strayhorn is walking barefoot in Havana, that kids from the streets of Port of Spain have seized the scene of New Morning, that the Conservatory has settled in a dance hall … Or while Samy Thiébault, saxophonist and Flautist, respected for some time, at one stroke wanted to embrace the vast field of music of the Creole world, without deciding which is the best, or the fairest, or the most learned. Simply by making their humanity heard. A trip to the Caribbean that gives these musics their humble nobility of ultimate consolation. And their truth.

It sometimes seems that Strayhorn is walking barefoot in Havana, that kids from the streets of Port of Spain have seized the scene of New Morning, that the Conservatory has settled in a dance hall … Or while Samy Thiébault, saxophonist and Flautist, respected for some time, at one stroke wanted to embrace the vast field of music of the Creole world, without deciding which is the best, or the fairest, or the most learned. Simply by making their humanity heard. A trip to the Caribbean that gives these musics their humble nobility of ultimate consolation. And their truth.