ARTIST ROSTER 2007

| Agency proposals | 2007-02-21

Jon Hassell (e-jazz)
Composer/trumpeter Jon Hassell is the visionary creator of a style of music he describes as Fourth World, a mysterious, unique hybrid of music both ancient and digital, composed and improvised, Eastern and Western. In 2005-06, Hassell began touring with a new band, which he named Maarifa Street, playing to new european audiences from Norway to Madrid to Rome to Berlin who are astonished at the discovery (and the re-discovery) of this atmospheric music beyond jazz. In France, critic wrote, “this celestial jazz is amazing” ; in Vienna, Der Standard announced, “the concert of the year.”

Akosh.S (ethno free jazz)
Influenced by ethno-jazz music from Eastern Europe and free jazz, Hungarian saxophonist Akosh Szelevényi emmigrated to France in 1986. Szelevnyi moves his music out towards free jazz, Indian raga and modern classical forms, creating fascinating concerts.

Nguyên Lê (world jazz)
Nguyên Lê is a masterful, inventive player who has cultivated a wholly unique voice on the instrument, he ranks right up there with Frisell, John Scofield, Mike Stern an Allan Holdsworth in the post-Hendrix world of jazz guitar. Between East & West, Jazz & Rock, traditonal music & free improvisation, his music acts like a powerful detonator which everytime creates new & unheard soundscapes. There’s something marvelously ethereal in Nguyên Lê’s music, who flies very high, somewhere between Hendrix’s vertigo & vietnamese ancient memories. No kidding, Nguyên Lê is one of today’s greatest guitar player

Ray Lema (world music)
A multi-instrumentalist with rich classical-jazz-traditional music training. Ray Lema holds a special place in the realm of world music. Since 1982, he has presented his audience beautiful harmonies blending with the most complex rythms and synthesisers mixing with traditional drums – as well as intimate pieces for piano and vocals. He ‘s actually performing in a piano solo or with his African Jazz trio.

Paolo Fresu (jazz)
On any given day the Sardinian trumpet player could be playing electro ethno jazz with the Vietnamese guitar player Nguyen Le, appearing with his new fusion-flavored "Devil" quartet; performing with his PAF trio with two accomplice italian musicians Antonello Salis and Furio Di Castri or recording his new albums on Blue Note with his Italian quintet. With an average of 200 presentations a year, Fresu has figured in the amazing number of 160 recordings, out of which 20 as a leader. He has also been engaged in recordings with a lot of first-class American and European jazzists.
Nelson Veras (latin jazz)
Those who saw the guitarist Nelson Veras charging up in Parisian jazz clubs ten years ago still think that they have been living a collective hallucination: a sixteen-year old Brazilian child could not play such a beautiful and intense music! The following years enabled Nelson to develop a musical universe alongside Aldo Romano, Magic Malik or Steve Coleman. Nelson recorded his first and highly expected album as a leader two years ago.

Carlos Maza (latin jazz)
Carlos Maza, a Chilean trouble-maker living in Cuba, spent the last ten years dynamiting jazz and Latino music mixtures, proudly following in Egberto Gismonti's and Hermeto Pascoal's footsteps. The discovery of a composer-interpret, a multi-instrumentalist, whose musical universe perfectly conveys Latin-American madness.

Huong Thanh (world music)
Born in Saigon from a renowned family of traditional musicians, Huong Thanh is one of the most beautiful voices of the vietnamese community. Her music, produced by the French/Vietnamese guitarist Nguyen Le, manages to weld traditional Vietnamese music to European jazz. This is deeply spiritual, highly sensual & very intelligent music that communicates perfectly across the cultures.

Maria Pia De Vito (jazz vocal)
Maria Pia De Vito is a singer, composer and arranger who has studied not only opera and contemporary singing, but ethnic and world music and since the 1980s has been mainly involved in the jazz scene. Her exquisite and unique voice has led her to work and perform with jazz stars from across the world. She possesses a rare combination of vocal prowess and adventure some spirit. Her music is often experimental, yet grounded in traditional forms of harmony and melodic patterns. She often forgoes lyrics altogether, using her voice as an instrument onto itself. She belongs to that select group of vocalists who are unafraid to take liberal risks in their choice of material.

Mino Cinelu (world jazz)
Percussionist extraordinaire Mino Cinelu has earned fame performing with the likes of Sting, Miles Davis, Weather Report, Pat Metheny, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, and many others. On his self-titled Blue Thumb debut, Cinelu delivers a pan-eclectic world music mix of jazz, blues, Afro-pop, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, and Asian influences.

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