Stéphane Bbqoeur

French-born, New York-based saxophonist Stephane Spira grew up with jazz the old-school way: in late night jams and cutting sessions. A protege of longtime pianist for Chet Baker, Michel Graillier, Spira’s jazz career has taken him from 4 A.M. basement sessions in the underbelly of Paris, through acclaimed collaborations with trumpeter Stephane Belmondo and pianist Giovanni Mirabassi, to the cutting edge of New York jazz. Spira’s fourth album as a bandleader, In Between, features more of the strikingly translucent and disarmingly catchy compositions that continue to characterize his work.

The bass player KERECKI plays a tribute to the electronic French Touch music (Daft Punk, Air, …) with his quartet. The new album "FRENCH TOUCH" will be released in September 18 (Incises), it follows "Nouvelle Vague" (2014,) the previous award-winning album of the band now featuring saxophonist Emile Parisien (winner of Victoires du jazz and ECHO Jazz 2017), drummer Fabrice Moreau and pianist Jozef Dumoulin.

Stephane Wrembel - Dreamers Of Dreams (2014) {Water Is Life Records WIL06}
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Jazz / World / World Fusion / New Acoustic / Guitar

This album is a reflection of two years of touring all over the world, an exploration of the realm of dreams and a unique impressionist journey. Stephane’s seventh studio album takes you on a musical journey through image provoking compositions inspired by the band’s own worldwide experiences. You will experience a shamanic vision of the desert, the USA, Asia, Africa and Europe. You will be taken into the world of dreams of Castaneda, in the caves of Lascaux, or travel through space.

In October, 1991 four nights of jazz concerts were held in Warsaw, Poland as part of a 30-year-old tradition, Jazz Jamboree. The venue selected was the Operetka House, essentially an old wood structure in downtown Warsaw. The sound, however, was resinate in the ornate hall and many of the jazz artists that performed over the four-day period commented on the incredible acoustics…

One of the all-time great jazz violinists (ranking with Joe Venuti and Stuff Smith as one of the big three of pre-bop), Stéphane Grappelli's longevity and consistently enthusiastic playing did a great deal to establish the violin as a jazz instrument. He was originally self-taught as both a violinist and a pianist, although during 1924-28 he studied at the Paris Conservatoire. Grappelli played in movie theaters and dance bands before meeting guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1933.

At age 84, Stephane Grappelli was continuing to amaze and delight with his energy, invention, enthusiasm, and the sheer swinging joy of his playing. Having almost singlehandedly defined an entire style of jazz violin with guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s, he has never departed from that admittedly archaic but never less than captivating style, and with guitarists Philip Catherine and Marc Fosset and bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, he lays claim to the gypsy-jazz mantle all over again, playing tunes both old…

Stephane Huchard - Panamerican (2013) {Jazz Village}
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Jazz / Post Bop / Fusion / Drums

For this new record, Stéphane Huchard travels from Paris to Big Apple and meet the best jazz musicians in New York. Pianist Jim Beard, saxophonist Chris Cheek, bassist Matt Penman and guitarist Nir Felder gathered at Brooklyn Recording Studio to play and record original compositions of drummer and leader Stéphane Huchard. With their subtle and elegant playing, the presence of the most Parisian of Argentinian percussionists Minino Garay and the artistic direction of wonderful French pianist Eric Legnini (who brought his sense of groove and melody), 'Panamerican' looks like a major album in Stéphane Huchard’s career.