2nd Cycle
TB #2.1
Rob Frye
JayVe Montgomery
Olivia Scemama
Simon Sieger
Dan Bitney
TB #2.2
Mai Sugimoto
Raymond Boni
Anton Hatwich
Paul Rogers
TB #2.3
Marvin Tate
Erwan Keravec
Gerrit Hatcher
Lia Kohl
Gaspar Claus
TB #2.4
Damon Locks
Morgane Carnet
Macie Stewart
Jozef Dumoulin
Fanny Lasfargues
TB #2.5
Ben Lamar Gay
Sam Pluta
Sophie Agnel
Pascal Niggenkemper
TB #2.6
Quentin Biardeau
Corey Wilkes
Justin Dillard
Etienne Ziemniak
TB #2.7
Isaiah Collier
Jaimie Branch
Rafaelle Rinaudo
Gilles Coronado
Tim Daisy
TB #2.8
Rajiv Halim
Florian Nastorg
Yoram Rosilio
Mikel Patrick Avery
TB #2.9
Sakina Abdou
Julien Pontvianne
Ugochi Nwaogwugwu
Coco Elysses
Julien Chamla
TB #2.10
Nick Mazzarella
Tim Stine
Céline Rivoal
Katie Ernst
Sylvain Lemêtre
TB #2.11
Jean-Brice Godet
Greg Ward
Hélène Labarrière
Isaiah Spencer
TB #2.12
Magic Malik
Angel Bat Dawid
Richard Comte
Nick Macri
Toma Gouband
TB #2.13
Jeff Albert
Irvin Pierce
Paul Wacrenier
Christian Dillingham
Nicolas Pointard
TB #2.14
Tim Haldeman
Fidel Fourneyron
Antonin Rayon
Thibault Cellier
Marcus Evans
TB 2.15
Bertrand Denzler
Basile Naudet
Junius Paul
Vincent Davis
Will Guthrie
TB #2.16
Peter Maunu
Simon Henocq
Luca Ventimiglia
Julian Kirshner
Erik M
1st Cycle
Sonic Communion
Douglas R. Ewart
Jean-Luc Cappozzo
Joëlle Léandre
Bernard Santacruz
Michael Zerang
The Spirit of Rasan Adabravi
Aymeric Avice
Joshua Abrams
Jason Adasiewicz
Avreeayl Ra
Benjamin Sanz
The Turbine!
Benjamin Duboc
Harrison Bankhead
Ramon Lopez
Hamid Drake
Shore to Shore
Rob Mazurek
Mwata Bowden
Julien Desprez
Matt Lux
Mathieu Sourisseau
The Sync
Sylvaine Hélary
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Eve Risser
Mike Reed
Escape Lane
Ben Lamar Gay
Marquis Hill
Jeff Parker
Joachim Florent
Denis Fournier
Vent Fort
Khari B
Magic Malik
Jeb Bishop
Guillaume Orti
Fred BBriet
Tyshawn Sorey
Fantastic Four
Antonin-Tri Hoang
Mars Williams
Tatsu Aoki
Samuel Silvant
Transatlantic Amazon Gods
Mankwe Ndosi
Mike Ladd
Sylvain Kassap
Dana Hall
Antichamber Music
Claudia Solal
Katherine Young
Benoît Delbecq
Lou Mallozzi
A Pride of Lions
Joe McPhee
Daunik Lazro
Joshua Abrams
Guillaume Séguron
Chad Taylor
Sea Angels
Lisa E. Harris
Nicole Mitchell
Christian Pruvost
Lionel Garcin
Christophe Rocher
Forget to find
Pierre-Antoine Badaroux
Jean-Luc Guionnet
Jason Roebke
Jim Baker
Sangliers
Keefe Jackson
Dave Rempis
Christine Wodrascka
Didier Lasserre
Peter Orins
The Way Through
Josh Berman
Jason Stein
Didier Petit
Edward Perraud
Twins
Fred Jackson Jr
Stéphane Payen
Makaya McCraven
Edward Perraud
The rules of the game
The Bridge associates nearly 150 French and North American musicians (75 per cycle, one cycle lasting seven years), divided into quartets and quintets. This long list respects the sociological diversity of the jazz field: men and women of all generations and backgrounds, who will be brought together, one after another, configuration after configuration. And its aesthetic diversity: music as a means of expression and as a means of experimentation, music as a domain of possibility. All of them show invaluable capacities to share their knowledge and craft, both on- and off-stage.
Each year, The Bridge organizes 4 tours or journeys – 2 to France and 2 to the United States – of rigorously cooperative formations, bringing together French and North American musicians who are members of the network, who have chosen each other and who have formulated their own project. Those who start in France will continue in the United States, and vice versa.
In the direction of France to the United States, these journeys take the shape of 2-3 week stays in Chicago and the Midwest. Such a length of time opens up a wide range of activities and experiences, all sorts of twists and turns, to “infiltrate” the visiting French musicians in a novel way–to truly immerse them in a socio-musical environment through practice.
In the direction of the United States to France, these trips are more akin to tours that rely on the network of partner clubs and festivals. However, the North American musicians are given the opportunity to make a few “getaways” with other members of the network and all kinds of audiences and communities.
From person to person, from group to group, by rotation, The Bridge reinforces the links between fraternities and sororities of musicians with distinct but complementary practices; The Bridge opens groundbreaking lines of communication and sharing.