Jean-Marc Padovani

He has worked with André Jaume, Jean-Louis Chautemps, Claude Barthélemy, Michel Marre, Louis Sclavis, Michel Godard, Bobby Rangell, Mal Waldron, Bennie Wallace, Enrico Rava, Gérard Marais, David Liebman, Jean-Marie Machado, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, and Paul Motian, with whom he recorded the 1996 album Takiya!

He enjoyed his first big public success with Tres horas de sol, a musical and literary show of flamenco-jazz that he toured all over France and abroad for three years.

For many years he collaborated with the writer and actor Enzo Cormann, with whom he has created many musical theatre shows as part of their collaboration La Grande Ritournelle including: Mingus, Cuernavaca, Sud, Double Quartet, Face au toro, Da Capo, Diverses Blessures and most recently Tribute to Jack Kerouac, Exit, and Films noirs.

His reunion with guitarist and composer Claude Barthélemy led, in autumn 2006, to the creation of the quartet Distances with Olivier Sens and Pierre Dayraud.

In 2012 he also created the jazz fusion ensemble Tool Box including bassist Frédéric Monino and drummer François Laizeau.