Jeff Boudreaux's special guests from the USA

Participants à cet évènement

• Jeff Boudreaux

  Jeff Boudreaux

  Batteur

  Un batteur de la Nouvelle-Orléans vivant à Paris qui a joué avec des grands du jazz comme Wynton et Branford Marsalis, Randy Brecker, Rick Margitza, Toots Thielemans, Jean Michel Pilc, Melody Gardot… etc. Un rythme magique !

  Batteur

• Martin Masakowski

  Martin Masakowski

  Martin is a bassist, luthier, and photographer, born and raised into a musical family in New Orleans. He grew up immersed in jazz music, and spent several years touring with an acoustic folk band, The Balcony Players, throughout Eastern Europe. He has continued to study various folk traditions from around the world, specializing in Eastern European and Middle Eastern music and most recently has started taking these sounds into the electronic realm. To facilitate his travels and adventures, he recently completed the design and build of his first travel bass named the Mobile Acoustic Z (M.A.Z) bass. He hopes to produce and sell these instruments to other bassists in the future.

• Sasha Masakowski

  Sasha Masakowski

  Sasha was listed as one of 12 jazz artists to watch in 2019 by Paste Magazine, Offbeat Magazine calls her “One of the brightest young talents in the Big Easy,” Vanity Fair Magazine recently listed Sasha as one of the top jazz musicians in the world and December 2015 issue of Downbeat Magazine named Sasha among the most innovative musicians coming out of New Orleans to date.Between 2017 and 2019, Sasha has headlined major clubs and festivals across the United States and abroad, such as the legendary Blue Note (NYC), Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, Cotton Club Tokyo, Jazz Standard (NYC), Detroit Jazz Festival, SF Jazz Center (San Francisco), Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Bird’s Basement (Melbourne) San Jose Jazz Festival, Phoenix Musical Instrument Museum, and New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, among others.Sasha’s approach to music is as playful, charismatic, and spontaneous as her personality. Her influences draw from jazz to electronic music to rock and she performs frequently in fully improvised settings to help cultivate her exotic style. Sasha has earned a reputation internationally as a daring, fearless improviser and a charming interpreter, working often alongside other progressive, genre-defying musicians such as Nicholas Payton, Jason Lindner, Zach Danziger, Adonis Rose, Cliff Hines and Aurora Nealand to name a few.“Listening to the music of New Orleans native Sasha Masakowski makes one feel more secure about the future and continued vitality of jazz” – Hot House Jazz Magazine, 2017While Sasha still stands as one of the most prominent voices on the New Orleans music scene, she recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY, where she continues to earn a reputation as a ingenious improviser, composer and performer. She currently leads two bands of her own that range from New Orleans modern jazz (Art Market) to electronic art-rock (Tra$h Magnolia).In February 2018, Sasha was formally invited by national Danish arts program JazzDanmark to be Artist-in-Resident, where she collaborated with leading Danish jazz artists, taught composition and electronic production at two prestigious Danish music conservatories, recorded an album of original music arranged and performed by the Pagsberg Big Band, and toured the country performing extensively for 6 weeks. Upon returning to the U.S., Sasha released her latest album Art Market to critical acclaim.“A combination of New Orleans-rooted jazz chops, mixed with a fearless ability to stretch her voice into impressive instrumental territory and a willingness to draw on the wider world of pop music into her own works: Sasha may well have one of this year’s most remarkable new releases on her hands.” Hot House Jazz Magazine, 2017

• Steve Masakowski

  Steve Masakowski

  Steve Masakowski has long been regarded as one of the top Jazz artists from New Orleans. Born and raised in New Orleans, Steve Masakowski has played guitar with most of the city’s greatest musicians including Alvin “Red” Tyler, Ellis Marsalis, Danny Barker, Earl Turbinton, and James Black. He has also performed with Grammy Award-winning artists Bobby McFerrin, Nicholas Payton, Allen Toussaint, Dianne Reeves and others at major festivals around the world.As a recording artist, he has released numerous CDs including two on the prestigious Blue Note Records label. He has been an active member of, and composer for the award winning New Orleans jazz group, Astral Project.He has twice been voted “Best Guitarist,” and won “Best Contemporary Jazz Group” three times by Gambit and Offbeat magazines in their annual reader’s polls. He has published lessons in Guitar Player magazine and authored the book, “Jazz Ear Training – Learning to Hear Your Way Through Music” for Mel Bay Publications. He is frequently recognized by Down Beat magazine as Talent Deserving Wider Recognition. Steve has participated in numerous Jazz concerts and workshops at major universities including Princeton, the University of Chicago, and the University on Indiana.Steve is currently on the faculty at the University of New Orleans where he holds the position of Coca-Cola Endowed Chair of Jazz Studies.