French jazz information

Jazz music has been popular in France since the 1920s. Its international popularity peaked in the 1930s, and it has been continually enjoyed since. Following...

conjunction with the French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997), as expressed by their group the Quintette du Hot Club de France. The style has its...

Club de France, which began in 1934. Much of this French jazz was a combination of African-American jazz and the symphonic styles in which French musicians...

The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions...

While the French horn is primarily used in classical music pieces, in the mid-20th century it broke into the jazz world. While the instrument remains...

a French jazz pianist. Moraweck studied music formally at the Paris Conservatoire in his youth, but began devoting his attention primarily to jazz starting...

Swiss jazz singer, 59 (cancer) January 26 Dean Brown, American jazz fusion guitarist and session musician, 68 (cancer) Michel Hausser, French jazz vibraphonist...

Thierry Maillard is a French jazz pianist, composer and arranger. Maillard was born on August 11, 1966, in Puteaux, France. He started his music career...

du Hot Club de France ("The Quintet of the Hot Club of France"), often abbreviated "QdHCdF" or "QHCF", was a jazz group founded in France in 1934 by guitarist...

Swiss jazz singer Bhavatharini, 47, Indian playback singer and film music director 26 Dean Brown, 68, American jazz guitarist Michel Hausser, 96, French jazz...

nickname Django (French: [dʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] or [dʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt]), was a Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to...

Legrand (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ləɡʁɑ̃]; 24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and...

Michel Petrucciani (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl petʁutʃani]; Italian: [petrutˈtʃaːni]; 28 December 1962 – 6 January 1999) was a French jazz pianist. From birth...

French jazz scene. He served as liaison for Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis in Paris, wrote for several French jazz-reviews (Le Jazz...

Alain Mion (born January 14, 1947, in Casablanca) is a French pianist, composer, arranger, jazz singer, and leader of the band Cortex. Influenced by Bobby...

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz...

Nu jazz (also spelt nü jazz or known as jazztronica, or future jazz) is a genre of jazz and electronic music. The music blends jazz elements with other...

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Jazz Hot is a French quarterly jazz magazine published in Marseille. It was founded in March 1935 in Paris. Jazz Hot is acclaimed for having innovated...

located in Correns, in the Var department of Provence (France). Founded in 1977 by French jazz pianist Jacques Loussier and sound engineer Patrice Quef...

jazz (also known as club jazz, psychedelic jazz, or groove jazz) is a music genre that combines elements of funk, soul, and hip hop, as well as jazz and...

chart. Distel was the son of Russian-French émigré Léonide Distel who was born in Odessa (Russian Empire) and French-Jewish pianist Andrée Ventura (1902–1965)...

yoruba singer. Azis - Bulgarian singer Biréli Lagrène (born 1966) – French jazz guitarist, violinist and bassist Boban Marković – Serbian brass bandleader...

Jazz French Horn is the third album by American jazz French horn player and composer Tom Varner recorded in 1985 and released as an LP on the New Note...