Pronto! by Christophe Marguet

Start Date : 16^th February 20230

Pronto! brings together four major personalities from the European jazz scene. Each musician not only loves to work with written compositions, melodies, atmospheres but also create new imaginations using their own improvisations. The quartet nurtures a collective language from everyone’s universe, which generates a distinctive sound, a completely new sound identity, specific to the group.

Artist Biographies

Bruno Angelini (Piano, Keyboards)

He was born in 1965 in Marseille. He is pro-active in the French and European jazz scene since the late 1990s. Having initiated and taken part in many projects, he was among others- Winner of the 2018 Jazz "Coup de Coeur" prize from the Charles Cros Academy, for his album Open Land; a La Buissonne record. Since 2019, he has been performing a solo piano project with an original electronic device, which allows him to loop and transform the acoustic sounds of the piano, in a program dedicated to the cinema of Sergio Leone: "Leone Alone 2.0."

Christophe Marguet (Drums)

Born in 1965, he studied with Jacques Bonnardel, Michel Sardaby, Keith Copeland, lived music from the age of 20 and followed internships with Kenny Barron, Rufus Reid, Victor Lewis, David Liebman, Richie Beirach, Ron Mc Lure , Billy Hart and John Abercrombie. In 1993, he founded his own trio with Sébastien Texier and Olivier Sens, with whom he won in 1995 the first orchestra prize at the Defense competition, as well as the first composition prize. He received the "Django d`Or" (French Revelation Hope) and was named "Talents Jazz 1998" (Adami) for his first trio album. He received the "CHOC" of the Year at Jazzmagazine / Jazzman in 2008 for the CD "Itrane" with his Quartet, in 2012 for the CD "Pulsion" with his Quintet and in 2013 for the trio "Looking for Parker", ffff Télérama for his last disc "Happy Hours"

Robin Fincker (Saxophone)

French saxophonist and clarinettist Robin Fincker (7/7/1980) is a prominent figure of the European creative-music scene. Interested in the transformation of set musical languages through improvisation Robin has led several projects based on contemporary reworking of traditional music such as the West-African sabar meeting Outhouse-Ruhabi, the trio with Paul Rogers dedicated to Charles Mingus' songbook Whahay and more recently the folk-infused Bedmakers and Future Folk Stories.

Hélène Labarriere (Double Bass)

Hélène Labarrière is part of this generation born just in time to benefit from an old-fashioned apprenticeship on the ground of a then flourishing Parisian jazz scene. She has recorded two albums with her quartet (François Corneloup on baritone saxophone, Hasse Poulsen on guitar and Christophe Marguet on drums) "Times change" then "Désordre" and more recently a new duet opus with Hasse Poulsen "Busking". She is an associate artist with Plages Magnétiques, SMAC jazz de Brest for the 2021 and 2022 seasons.