Paul Jarret

Born and raised in Paris, France, Paul Jarret is a guitarist and composer playing mostly jazz and improvised music. Playing the jazz standards as well as radical free improvisation, he is involved in many projects as a leader, a co-leader or a sideman. In 2010 he has founded the band Pj5, a new kind of lyrical and modern jazz mixed with rock/pop sounds and improvised music. With this quintet he has been touring worldwide, won several awards (Jazz Migration #2, Jazz à La Défense 2012, and more), and released three albums : WORD (2013), Trees (2016) and I Told the Little Bird (2018) with Jozef Dumoulin and Isabel Sörling as guests. ​ Inspired by his own family (his mother is Swedish) he also founded in 2015 the EMMA project with Swedish singer Hannah Tolf : a musical tribute to the Swedish exodus to USA in the 19th Century, blending improvised music, Swedish traditional music, as well as sacred music, and works of repetitive and minimalist composers. In 2019 he is chosen as the new "Talent Jazz Adami" which allows him to create a new band Ghost Songs with American drummer Jim Black, as well as Jozef Dumoulin on Fender Rhodes and Julien Pontvianne on saxophone. With his works as a leader, his bands as a coleader (Sweet Dog, trio Paul Jarret/Karin Johansson/Donovan Von Martens), as a sideman (with Luise Volkmann Été Large, Loïs Le Van Vind, Ellinoa The Ballad of Ophelia, Grégoire Letouvet, Steven Kamperman "Maison Moderne"…) and some other projects. pics ©MaxRavelomantsoa