Aimee Nolte's review of MelodEar

Conservatoire de Paris. Aimee is a pianist, a singer, a performer and a teacher, and is one of the 10 top worldwide youtuber for music education, jazz and improvisation. She is amazing musically and has developed a thoughtful channel to convey briliant and popular musical angles, essays, methods based on high level musical knowledge made back to earth for better accessibility. If you don’t know her already please check her youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/AimeeNolte

Camille Bertault & David Linx's interview on MelodEar

After training at the conservatory, Camille Bertault obtains a classical piano prize and studies vocal jazz and improvisation at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 2016, She is spotted by a New York label, Sunnyside Records, which distributes her first album «En vie» and makes her discover the New York jazz scene. There she meets Dan Tepfer, Michael Leonhart, Jeff Ballard, and Joe Sanders with whom, under Sony France, she records her second album in 2018, «Pas de Géant», which receives superb press . Camille then tours around the world and releases her 3rd album, « Le tigre » at Sony in 2020. She is currently working on her new album with ACT which will be released in 2022. Check out https://www.camillebertault.com

Born in Brussels, march 22, 1965, David Linx is a singer, composer lyricist, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Always moving forward to new aesthetics, his career and contribution to vocal jazz and creation is pristine and his numbers of awards, albums and collaborations is impressive : Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Natalie Dessay, The Count Basie Orchestra, Toots Thielemans, Mino Cinelu, Marc Ducret,Tigran Hamasayan, Ibrahim Maalouf, Erik Truffaz, Aka Moon, Roy Ayers, Steve Coleman, Meshell Ndegeocello, Billy Cobham, Didier Lockwood, Richard Galliano… and the list goes on and on…. He is a true master. Check out http://www.davidlinx-official.com

Gregory Privat's review of MelodEar

Born in Martinique in 1984, Gregory Privat, in the tracks of his father José Privat ( from caribbean group Malavoi) starts private piano lessons at the age of 6, studying classical music for 10 years and then jazz and improvisation. His early experiments of stage in Paris lead him to explore blending jazz and caribbean music with Ka, alongside with musicians such as Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Stephane Belmondo, Guillaume Perret and Sonny Troupé. He goes semi-final to competitions like Montreux Jazz, and Martial Solal prize in 2008 and 2010. He signed 3 albums ‘KI Koté’ (2011), ‘Tales of Cyparis’ (2013), Family Tree (2016 on ACT records) with international success and touring. His 1st solo album ‘Yonn’ is coming up in 2022.   https://www.gregoryprivat.com

 
 

 

 

Born in 1960 in Paris, now an American citizen, self-taught pianist and composer Jean-Michel Pilc has performed with numerous jazz giants: Roy Haynes, Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman, Jean Toussaint, Rick Margitza, Martial Solal, Michel Portal, Daniel Humair, Marcus Miller, Kenny Garrett, Lenny White, Chris Potter, John Abercrombie, Mingus Dynasty & Big Band, Lew Soloff, Richard Bona, Harry Belafonte, as his musical director and pianist, and has performed a duet with the legendary opera singer…

 

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