Eldegee in concert
2024-03-15 21:00 - 22:30, 2024-04-06 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Paris)
with IMEP former student Laura Operti
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IMEP Audition
2024-03-16 | IMEP Paris College of Music, 7 rue Emile Dubois, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75014, France
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Concert by IMEP students
2024-03-17 19:00 - 23:00 | Les 2 pianos
IMEP – PARIS COLLEGE OF MUSIC PRESENTS ITS BIG BAND AND ENSEMBLES OF 4TH AND 5TH YEAR STUDENTS ON SUNDAY MARCH 17, 2024 AT 2 PIANOS.
The evening kicks off at 7pm with the IMEP Big Band, followed by ensembles of 4th and 5th year students. They’ll be presenting the sets they’ve been working on throughout the year with their teachers.
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Manuel Rocheman at Comptoir Vocal
2024-03-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Le grand comptoir d’Anvers, 2 place d'Anvers, Paris, 75009, France
Every Wednesday, the Grand Comptoir d’Anvers transforms itself into a jazz club from 7pm to 10pm, welcoming the best names in Parisian jazz!

Antoine Dessane – Vocal
Manuel Rocheman – Piano
Corentin Giniaux – Clarinette/Saxophone

Rodinha aux Nouveaux Sauvages
2024-03-22 21:00 - 23:30 | Les Nouveaux Sauvages, 1 avenue Gabriel Peri, Montreuil, 93100, France
Come and support Rodinha, the IMEP alumni samba group, on March 22 at Les Nouveaux Sauvages, starting at 9pm.
Camille Arcache – Chant
Nathan Kuperminc – Clarinette
Valentin Delbrel – Guitare 7cordes/cavaquinho
Félix Reneault – Percussions/chant/cavaquinho
Eliott Khosla – Percussions

Festival Passworld : Balaphonics & Mary May
2024-03-23 20:30 - 22:30 | EMB Sannois, 2 rue du Président Georges Pompidou, Sannois, 95110, France
With IMEP teacher Guillaume Grosso
This brassband from the Paris region is ready to give you a taste of their afro-funk specialities, in a fusion as explosive in energy as it is diverse in mood. The icing on the cake: Balaphonics is accompanied by the rising star of the Ile-de-France Afro-Soul scene, singer Mary May, who has integrated herself into the group while taking it into new, hitherto unexplored spheres.
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Duo L. Lewis & G. Hagen at Café Laurent
2024-03-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Café Laurent
Jazz concert at the legendary Café Laurent de l’Hôtel d’Aubusson in the heart of Saint Germain des Prés, from 7:45 pm to 10:30 pm with Duo Leslie LEWIS (vocals) and Gerard HAGEN (piano).

Fred Wesley Generations at the New Morning
2024-03-29 19:30 - 21:30 | New Morning
The groove legend: Fred Wesley, icon of the very select funk family, has collaborated with James Brown, Maceo Parker, George Clinton and Bootsy Collins.
This jazz-inspired trombonist, with accents of soul music and gospel, currently roars his trombone in a trio with organist Leonardo Corradi and drummer Tony Match. A few decades after his work with James Brown and George Clinton established him as one of the pioneers of funk, Fred Wesley launches a new project that links him to his jazz roots and to the future: Generations.
Generations is an evolving trio featuring Fred Wesley on trombone, Leonardo Corradi on organ and French drummer Tony Match. These three musicians originally got together to pay tribute to the soulful jazz of the legendary Jimmy Smith. Today, they have found harmony and continue to play together. Their show combines Wesley’s talent and experience, Corradi’s energetic reflection on Smith and other historic jazz giants, and Match’s jazz drumming tinged with unique influences from African rhythms and electronic sounds.

Fred Wesley (Trombone), Leonardo Corradi (Orgue Hammond), Tony Match (Drums)

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Meta at Baiser Salé
2024-03-29 19:30 - 22:30 | Le Baiser Salé, 58 rue des Lombards, Paris, 75001, France
META voix/percus
PIERRE DE BETHMANN piano
MICHAEL FELBERBAUM guitare, professeur de l’IMEP
STÉPHANE GUILLAUME sax/flûte
SIMON TAILLEU cbasse
KARL JANNUSKA batterie

Lyrical and dreamlike, the music of this singer with an almost metaphysical aura reconciles body and mind, that famous Body and Soul that remains the best expression of a jazz that is ready to travel, free from formal constraints. This is the strength of Meta’s message, a spirituality carried by an equally suspended team, in tune with its intentions: a majuscule quintet with its faithful accomplices.
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Serge Ananou at la Dame de Canton
2024-03-29 20:30 - 23:00 | La Dame de Canton, Port de la Gare, Paris, 75013, France
With former student Serge Ananou
Born in Benin in the late 70s, Serge Ananou grew up in the working-class districts of Cotonou, where he discovered Vodoun rhythms and culture at an early age. In 2002, he embarked on his first European tour with the Fifawa Band, playing dates in Switzerland, France, Italy and elsewhere. In 2006, Serge decided to move to France.
Serge Ananou’s music remains African, but incorporates contributions from funk, blues and jazz. Accompanied on stage by 4 experienced and musically generous musicians, he adapts his show to suit the audience, sharing his joie de vivre, his values and his emotions.
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Aïteka at l'Alimentation Générale
2024-03-30 20:00 - 23:00 | L’Alimentation Générale, 64 rue Jean Pierre Timbaud, Paris, 75011, France
With IMEP alumna Adriana Maria
Aïteka’s compositions are an explosion of dynamic rhythms, borrowing from afrobeat, funk, jazz and hip-hop. With their bewitching Afro-groove, their music brings souls together, inviting everyone to dance, sing along and let themselves be carried away by this wave of contagious solar energy.
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Jam at deux pianos
2024-04-02 20:00 - 22:00 | Les 2 pianos
led by Peter Giron

Orelle Soyeux & Alexandre Pierre
2024-04-03 19:30 - 21:30
3 jazz sets with Alexandre Pierre and Orelle Soyeux this Wednesday, April 3 at LM Bistro du Méridien Etoile
Show starts at 7.30pm

Romain Pilon trio with Jeff Ballard
2024-04-04 20:30 - 22:00 | Espace Sorano, 16 rue Charles Pathé, Vincennes, 94300, France
In a world where energy and speed often take precedence, Romain Pilon conquered the networks last year by playing… a ballad. His “slower than slow” version of Lament has been listened to almost 800,000 times on Spotify alone! Turning his attention for the first time to the repertoire of standards, unearthing rare gems from the Great American Songbook and nuggets by Herbie Hancock, Steve Swallow and Miles Davis, he presents the repertoire of his sublime “Falling Grace”, accompanied by the trio with which he recorded it, including Jeff Ballard, drumming goldsmith and regular member of the Brad Mehldau Trio.

Romain Pilon : guitar
Yoni Zelnik : double bass
Jeff Ballard : drums

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Trio Brume at Baiser Salé
2024-04-05 19:30 - 23:30 | Le Baiser Salé, 58 rue des Lombards, Paris, 75001, France
With Robin Nitram, former guitarist and 2016 IMEP graduate
Forged in the heart of urban chaos, the trio Brūme, born in June 2023, is the electric energy of a Berlin winter and a road trip between Brussels and Paris. Featuring Robin Nitram, Ewen Grall and Oscar Bineau, the band finds its inspiration in the music of Paul Motian, the effervescence of Berlin and the underground scene of Chicago. The trio Brūme shapes musical narratives that capture the multiple influences of its members.
Tickets : https://www.lebaisersale.com/agenda/4458/trio-brume
discount code : BS0405

Rafael Mafra jazz quartet at the Dissident Club
2024-04-05 21:00 - 23:00 | The Dissident Club, 58 rue Richer, Paris, 75009, France
With students from IMEP – Paris College of Music: Rafael Mafra on guitar, Silin Chen on drums, Nicolas Chua on bass, and Class of 2023 alumni Félix Reneault on saxophone.
Free entrance

Black Label show with Sélène Saint Aimé and JoeyStarr
2024-04-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Opera de Rennes, Place de la Mairie, Rennes, 35000
IMEP alumna Sélène Saint Aimé accompanies JoeyStarr on stage in the Black Label show.
After initial dates at Lille’s Théâtre du Nord, the show will be on stage at the Opéra de Rennes. Based on the poetic work Black-Label, written in 1956 by Léon-Gontran Damas, actor and rapper JoeyStarr and stage director David Bobée take on some of the most famous anti-racist poems, accompanied by jazz musician and singer Sélène Saint-Aimé and singer and dancer Nicolas Moumbounou.
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Square Noon at Melville
2024-04-10 20:30 - 22:00 | Le Melville
Square Noon is Alexandre, Axel and Arlo, vitalizing their music as they did in the early days of jazz. The infectious joy of these three classmates from the IMEP • Paris College of Music thrills the Melville once a month.

Alexandre Lombard-Bufet : piano
Arlo Lardé : contrebasse
Axel Allwright : batterie

Atacama at the Baiser Salé
2024-04-10 21:00 - 23:00 | Le Baiser Salé, 58 rue des Lombards, Paris, 75001, France
ATACAMA is a contemporary jazz-rock quartet from Paris, named “Revelation” by Jazz Magazine. Frantic rhythms, unexpected harmonies and lilting melodies characterize their resolutely modern style.
The band’s aim is to create music that is demanding yet accessible, using modern electric sounds to enhance their melodies and boundless energy.
With a refreshing naturalness, the members of Atacama erase the barriers between the spontaneity of jazz and the aesthetic codes of rock, to create a hybrid music likely to seduce a demanding public whose thirst for 100% instrumental emotions is equalled only by the desire for lilting melodies” (Jazz Magazine).

BRUNO ROUGEVIN BAVILLE piano/synthés
VICTOR GONON guitare
MAXIME ISOARD basse
ANAËL NOURY batterie

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Leslie Lewis & Gerard Hagen chez Papa
2024-04-11 20:30 - 22:30 | Chez Papa, 3 rue Saint Benoît, Paris, 75006
Gerard Hagen, IMEP teacher and pianist, duo with singer Leslie Lewis chez Papa on April, 11th from 8.30pm.

Leslie Lewis & Gerard Hagen trio
2024-04-12 20:30 - 22:00, 2024-04-13 20:30 - 22:00 | Chez Papa, 3 rue Saint Benoît, Paris, 75006
Pianist and IMEP teacher Gerard Hagen trio with singer Leslie Lewis and double bass player and IMEP codirector Peter Giron at Chez Papa, April 12 and 13 from 8.30pm.

Fuzekine at the Baiser Salé
2024-04-13 19:00 - 22:00 | Le Baiser Salé, 58 rue des Lombards, Paris, 75001, France
With IMEP alumni, pianist Will Alexander

Fuzekin is a jazz band, but it’s mostly three friends who plug in, shake the walls, unplug, and disappear as they arrived. Jazz, groove, electro-metallo-noise… legend has it that they invented noise. Their jungle and nu-soul influences poison the fresh air with jazz harmonies and funk/soul rhythms. A modern and rhythmic music, sometimes hovering, sometimes violent, with and without distortion…
Will Alexander Keyboard
Sonny Bellonie Bass
Thomas Chevallet Drums
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Rodinha at Eurydice
2024-04-13 20:00 - 23:30

All-instrument workshop with Bernard Vidal
2024-04-14 08:00 - 2024-04-21 17:00
New for 2024 – Bernard Vidal, co-founder of IMEP – Paris College of Music, and former teacher at the school, and IMEP – Paris College of Music are organizing an intensive, immersive music course during the spring vacation. The trainees will stay on an estate in the heart of the Occitanie region near Narbonne.
More informations : https://www.imep.pro/stage-avec-bernard-vidal/

Lucas Dorado "El Sueño" guests Agathe Iracema
2024-04-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Le Son de la Terre, Port Montebello, Paris, 75005, France
“El Sueño” is the musical fork of two worlds and their stories. Leader Lucas Dorado feels at home in many cultures, thanks to his origins in Argentina and Switzerland. In his music, he harmonizes Argentine folklore with new sounds drawn from jazz, with which he is very familiar.
-Lucas Dorado: Vibraphone & Composition
-Fabrizio Colombo: Bandonéon
-Gabriel Zamora: Guitar
-Michelangelo Scandroglio: Bass
-Sacha Souêtre: Drums
-Special guest vocalist: Agathe Iracema, alumna of IMEP • Paris College of Music
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Agathe Iracema at 360 Music Factory
2024-04-16 20:30 - 22:00 | Le 360, 32 rue Myrrha, Paris, 75018, France
Improvised music, original arrangements, at the crossroads of jazz, Brazilian and French popular music.
An expressive, lively collection from two artists with a strong sense of complicity.
Skilful reinterpretations of great standards.
An ode to life, joy, love and the magic of the moment.
DISTRIBUTION:
Agathe Iracema: vocals and percussion
Leonardo Montana : piano
https://le360paris.com/evenement/agathe-iracema-duo-2/

Who Parked The Car + Kalupto + Notap at the New Morning
2024-04-17 19:30 - 23:30 | New Morning
An unmissable evening to discover a new generation of talented musicians, distinguished by their generosity and their ability to shatter musical genre barriers.
A mini-festival proposed by the Resolution label with 3 emerging bands from the new Parisian scene.
Line-up:
KALUPTO: Calypso Larrazet-Llop (voc, key), Victor Gonon (g, voc)
WHO PARKED THE CAR: Laura Wamba (voc), Sebastián Muñoz (sax), Félix Reneault (sax), Thomas Salvatore (key), César Aouillé (g), Ludo Prieur (b), Malo Ropers (prc), Alejandro Dixon (dr), and Dynjah (voc)
NOTAP: Calypso Larrazet-Llop (voc), Léo Bouloc (sax), Sebastián Muñoz (sax), Thomas Salvatore (key), Victor Gonon (g), Antoine Artaud (b), Faniry Andrianarisoa (dr)
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Technobrass + Spoink at the New Morning
2024-04-18 19:30 - 22:30 | New Morning
Release of the new Technobrass EP at New Morning.
The band Spoink is opening the show. With IMEP alumni, drummer, Raphael Milovanovic.
Spoink is the sound of the infinite bounce of a spring that, in chaos, improvises its every move. This quartet from the eastern suburbs of Paris offers generous, improvised and festive music, played with a combination of acoustic and electronic elements. Each performance is unique, and the music is created in real time as the musicians and audience interact. Like an organic DJ set for four, the group uses soundpainting to create its own original codes that are constantly renewed. After a hundred or so concerts, including Rock en Seine, the Fusion Festival in Germany and the Festival Chorus, the band’s aim is to perform at as many festivals in France and abroad as possible.
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