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Jazz, Broadway, cabaret, rock

  • Having come with a Broadway production...

 

 

Lead singer, Paradis Latin

...this Chicagoan, like so many of her compatriots, decided she wanted to stay. Many become discouraged when hard realities set in.

 
Event commemorating Josephine Baker

But this artist instantly became lead singer of a famous cabaret and has made a name for herself in Paris.

 

 

•"Paris portraits"

•Inauguration, Josephine Baker Place

With us
At event we organized for company presidents

 

 

 

 

 

  • The trumpet shall sound

 

Trumpeteer, composer and conductor, our jazz-club guide recreated Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert for the church of Saint-Sulpice (2003) and for Cork (2005). National radio played his Ellington Christmas Concert on Christmas Eve (2005).

 

He and his orchestra appear in mainstream media, perform in major clubs, and participate in jazz festivals (for example, at Auvillar and Oléron in July and August 2008).

 

 

•Festivals

•Recordings

The Reservoir (large and trendy Parisian theater)
Jazz festival Lebanon, Beyrouth 2004
The Sunset (Paris jazz club)
The Reservoir, 2007
Le Méridien (fashionable hotel in Paris)

 

 

 

  • Multifaceted charisma

 

Childhood in Baghdad, adolescence in Berlin, training at the Paris Conservatory, stays in the United States...

 

That itinerary explains this singer's ease with Middle Eastern chants, Berlin cabaret, Broadway and chansons françaises.

 

She attended clown school as well. Did that encourage her exceptional sense of communication, as when she talks to her audience, bringing it into the show?

 

 

  • New Orleans swing & '50's rock

 

 

With us

 

•Recording

A flea market means being very widely heard.

We discovered this pianist at a flea market.

 

 

With us

He played for us several times. Then we came upon this picture.

 

 

  • An American in Paris, a rock star in Japan

 

•Recordings
With us

This singer, pianist and percussionist writes, performs and produces music that goes beyond love songs (Where you going with that gun?), though he composes those too. Sign of his versatility - creating over 250 jingles. Nami's song is well-known.
With his Japanese-American daughter

Famous in Japan, he travels to the United States and lives in Paris.

     

     

    • Trans-Atlantic swap

     

     

     

     
    At the Houdon...

    Autumn Leaves ("Les feuilles mortes"), My Way ("Comme d'habitude"), Saint James Infirmary ("Les portes du pénitencier")... are so well-known on both sides of the Pond that North Americans and French each assume the song began with them. 

     

    Our star and her excellent French pianist perform standards American visitors and Parisians know by heart - in French or English. All join in.

     

     
    ... a well-known Montmartre jazz café

      She can, of course, perform concerts on other themes.

       

      This Texan is one of Europe's great performers of Spirituals and Gospel...
      With us, for our 20th anniversary

       

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      Orchestra conductor / Julien Debure; conductor and orchestra / Julien Debure; musician and daughter / supplied by the artist; jazzwoman and ensemble / Julien Debure

       

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