MUSIC PROJECTS

This notebook was written during my travels across five continents, with notes scribbled on restaurant tables, concert hall & hotel pianos, inspired by the magic of sights, smells, and encounters.

The music is jazz, world music, classical, Arab-Andalusian, and South American.
Quartet with:
Cello – Prosper Sibertin-Blanc
Double Bass – William Brunard
Percussion – Maurice Merizen

Tap Dance / Piano. The show represents the emancipation of a little-known art, that of Tap Dance, associated in the imagination of the general public with American musicals. Far from the formulas heard and in the same vein as the search for new instrumental horizons by jazzmen from the 50s, this duo breaks the codes…

The golden age of jazz reinvented, blending classical, pop, and Latin jazz.
A familiar yet unprecedented experience.

With pop accents, harmonies imbued with 20th century classical music or more ethnic rhythms, Franck Monbaylet creates a sound setting around Rosa Ines’s voice, sensual, strong and rich in her Latin American culture, giving these magnificent timeless songs a new aesthetic, in their debut album in duo

“Fire under the ice” – The music of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg is part of this musical heritage that everyone recognizes and loves without always being able to identify its author. Franck Monbaylet and Norwegian saxophonist Helene Arntzen have in common that they have always loved this music. They developed arrangements on some of the…

A tribute to the Gershwin brothers, George the composer and Ira the author. I called it GIG, their initials, which also means “concert” for American musicians. I wrote this tribute with one of my favorite ensembles, a string trio. I asked Nicolle Rochelle to join us to perform this new offering of these magnificent and…

Virginia Constantine performs in Parisian clubs, inspired in particular by the legendary Sarah Vaughan to whom she has boundless admiration. She sang as a backing vocalist for Laurent Voulzy, Michel Sardou, Richard Gotainer, recorded advertising spots and in 2003, lent her voice to Marilyn Monroe for 12 years in the magazine “Bonheur” at the Lido…