Jeanne Michard
(born 6 September 1993) began playing music and the saxophone at the age of 7. Influenced by jazz culture, she also gravitates towards Latin and world music. A regular in jazz clubs and concert halls in Paris (Duc des Lombards, New Morning, Sunset, Baiser Salé, Studio de l'Ermitage, etc.), she also performs in the provinces and abroad, notably in New York for the French Quarter of the Winter Jazz Festival. In 2021 she recorded her first album under her own name with her Latin 5tet, ‘Songes Transatlantiques’, which earned her numerous radio appearances (TSF, France Musique, Fip, etc.) and the group a place on the bill at many festivals and clubs in France.

As both leader and sidewoman, she shares the stage with Rhoda Scott, Felipe Cabrera, Géraud Portal and Johan Farjot, among others, as well as with a number of collectives, including the Paris Jazz Sessions, the Zoot Collectif and Déluge, all musicians who are active and recognised on the French and international jazz scene. She is also involved in a number of world music projects: La Llave (Afro-Cuban pop with Javier Campo), Candela Collectif (salsa), Mambo Legacy (New York salsa big-band), Clube Dos Democraticos (samba). In December 2022, she was voted ‘French Revelation of the Year’ by the editors of Jazz Magazine and Jazz News on the occasion of the release of Best Off 2022’.