Paolo Fresu is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music.
Philip Catherine is a Belgian jazz guitarist.
David Linx is a Belgian jazz singer and songwriter.
Louis Sclavis is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation and contemporary classical.
Bojan Zulfikarpašić, known professionally as Bojan Z. is a Serbian jazz pianist.
Aldo Romano is an Italian jazz drummer. He also founded a rock group in 1971.
Michel Portal is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz".
Henri Texier is a French jazz double bassist.
Jack Arthur Walrath is an American post-bop jazz trumpeter and musical arranger known for his work with Ray Charles, Gary Peacock, Charles Mingus, and Glenn Ferris, among others.
Henri Guédon was a French percussionist from Martinique. His first band was called La Contesta and he organised it when he was 20. He was awarded a Maracas d'or the first year the awards ran. In 1983, Philippe Langlais invited him to compose a mix of classical and jazz with his orchestra, the resulting composition called Opéra Triangulaire. He was a judo champion 1963-65. Multiple albums fused Antillean rhythms with other music from around the world. Guedon was instrumental in exporting the new sound of 60s and 70s Latin -guaguanco, boogaloo, salsa, descarga - to France and the rest of Europe. When Guedon began placing his percussion instruments at the front of the stage in the style of his great influence Ray Barretto, French audience members found themselves shocked and intrigued. Soon enough, greats like El Conde and Pacheco were touring France. Were it not for Henri Guedon, Europe could have conceivably taken years to move forward from mambo and cha-cha-cha.
Victor Lewis is an American jazz drummer, composer, and educator.
Daniel Humair is a Swiss drummer, composer, and painter.
Noël Akchoté is a French guitarist in free improvisation, classical, experimental, and free jazz.
Paris Jazz Festival is a jazz festival in Paris, France, established in 1994.
Georgi Kornazov is a Bulgarian jazz trombonist and composer, who lives in Paris, France.
Les Victoires du jazz is a program of annual French jazz awards which grew out of the larger Victoires de la Musique. The prizes were then awarded within the Victoires de la musique classique from 1994-2001. In 2002, a ceremony dedicated specifically to jazz was created.
Sylvain Beuf is a French jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger.
François Jeanneau is a French jazz saxophonist, flautist, and composer.
Orchestre National de Jazz is a French orchestra that was created by French Ministry of Culture in 1986. It has had 12 musical and artistic directors, more than 200 soloists and recorded 33 albums. Orchestre National de Jazz won the Victoires du Jazz in 2009 and 2020, and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2012 for the album Shut Up And Dance composed by John Hollenbeck.
Vincent Courtois is a French jazz cellist.
