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Jeanne Rochette is an author, composer and performer of French chanson, as well as a modern jazz enthusiast, with a career spanning France and French-speaking America. Her albums include Elle sort (2010), Cachée (2016) and La malhonnête (2021), as well as this album recorded at Le Gesù in 2022 with the Orchestre National de Jazz de Montréal, this time featuring jazz instruments as well as traditional European classical instruments (harp, oboe, horn, etc.). The arrangements for this opus, released last October, were devised by regular ONJ collaborator Jean-Nicolas Trottier. Between her many Montreal-Paris shuttles, Jeanne Rochette talks with Alain Brunet about the classicism of her songwriting signature and how to adapt it to the context of a large jazz ensemble.
