Anne Ducros

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Location:
Paris, FR
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Jazz / Nu-Jazz / Swing
Site(s):
Label:
DREYFUS
Type:
Major
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URBAN TRIBE



After establishing momentum with her US debut, "PIANO, piano," and expanding her

audience remarkably with several concert apperances in New York City (including

Lincoln Center and an SRO performance at the 2007 IAJE conference), the gorgeous

French diva Anna Ducros is back with her new offering, "Urban Tribe." The disc

unites her with major players on the NY scene - Ada Rovatti on Sax, Essiet

Essiet on bass and Bruce Cox on drums and also the one of the best french piano

player Olivier Hutman . Highlights include her bold intepretation of Beatles’

“Sexy Sadie,” and an assortment of delicious standards and love songs such as

“You and the Night and the Music,” “Easy To Love” and the Otis Redding classic,

“Dock of the Bay.”



DISCOGRAPHY & AWARDS



URBAN TRIBE

Dreyfus Jazz - 2007



PIANO, piano

Dreyfus Jazz - 2005



CLOSE YOUR EYES

Dreyfus Jazz - 2003



PURPLE SONGS

Dreyfus Jazz - 2001



DON'T YOU TAKE A CHANCE

(JTB Prod. / Media 7) 1989



RECORDING COLLABORATIONS:

VENDREDI 14 with Luigi Trussardi 1993



STANDARDS AND OTHER STORIES

with Sarah

Morrow 2002

Dreyfus Jazz – con R. Galliano, M. Petrucciani, B. Lagrene….



SOME COMPILATIONS:

 

LE PETIT

JOURNAL MONTPARNASSE 2002

Dreyfus Jazz – with : R. Galliano, M. Petrucciani, B. Lagrene….



RENDEZ-VOUS ON THE JAZZ BOULEVARD 2003

Universal – with : E. Fitzgerald, S. Vaughan, N. Cole.



WOMEN IN LOVE 2 2005

NOVA-TSF Music – with : B. Holliday, D. Worwick, N, Simone.



AWARDS:

PRIX BILLIE HOLLIDAY de L’Accademie du Jazz 2001

DJANGO D’OR 2002

VICTOIRE DE LA MUSIQUE 2002

VICTOIRE DE LA MUSIQUE 2003

DONNA DI SCENA

- JAZZ - 2007



Special appearances on TV worldwide publicity

spots :

Perfume “CHANCE” – CHANEL She sings “Taking a chance on love”



2008 : MAIN TEACHER (singing) AND JURY in most popular tv program on TF1 STAR ACADEMY



Native of DESVRES, France, Anne Ducros began her classic training (musical and

vocal) within the conservatoire of Boulogne Sur mer with Lyne Dpurian. Then at

the same time she is studying law at the University of Lille, she completes and

refines her vocal mastery thanks to the education of Yuri Anoff and Maddy

Mespley. Afterward she has a practice of baroque music within training course at

the University and investigates Couperin, Rameau or Bach’s music.

Introduced to the vocal jazz from 1986. She sets up her first quartet of jazz

with which she gains various international competitions (Price for better

soloist and first vocalist in the festival of jazz of Dunkerque; First price of

soloist and vocalist in the festival of jazz of Vienne in 1989). This growing

recognition will stimulates her of an inexhaustible will to sing always more by

accumulating concerts in France and specially by publishing her first album of

vocal jazz, "DON’T YOU TAKE A CHANCE" at JTB in 1989.

After this first recording was released, she returns on the road by multiplying

the tours, the festivals (Nice, Montreaux, Nantes, Barcelone, Ismir, Montral…)

and the musical meetings (Michel Petrucciani, Didier Lockwood, Toots Thielmans,

Michel Legrand, Ray Brown, Ted Curson, Jacky Terrasson, Randy Brecker, Flavio

Boltro, Bob Franceschini, Sarah Morrow…).

This artistic fulfilment couples with an increasing educational investment.

During years 1992-1993, she teaches the vocal jazz at most of all music schools

in Paris and France and since 1994 she is the manager of Prelude, first school

of vocal jazz in Paris. Besides her teacher's implication, she animates clinics

and master-classes all over the world (Aix, Le Havre, Chicago, Calvi,

Bruxelles.).

In 1995 Anne Ducros participates in the recording of Friday 14 with Lugi

TRUSSARDI and puts her voice on some tracks of this album, published by ELABETH.

Surrounded with Gordon beck, Sal la Rocca, Bruno Castellucci and Didier Lockwood,

Anne Ducros records her "PURPLE SONGS " album, published in 2001 by DREYFUS

JAZZ. Further this album, the singer is awarded by the Academy of the Jazz, and

she receives the Price Billie Holiday, in december 2001. This new award will not

be the last one, because in April 2002, the "Django d'Or/ Victoires de la

musique" awards her with the price of the artist vocal of the year.

In 2003 her third album, “Close your eyes” (DREYFUS JAZZ) and once more she wins

the Vocal Artist of the year of the Victoires de la Musique Jazz awards. In this

album she’s surrounded by talented musicians, string orchestra, and prestigious

special guests such as the harmonicist Toots Thielemans and the flute player

Benoit Fromanger. Joy, rhythmic flexibility and melody characterize this

recording. With her hot voice, Anne Ducros revisits some jazz standards and pop

songs as Stevie Wonder’s “Lately” or Beatles’s “Black Bird”. She also interprets

with elegance some French Songs: “L’eau la bouche” of Serge Gainsbourg and

“Clopin Clopan” of Pierre Dudan.

In September 2005 her forth album comes out by DREYFUS JAZZ: it marks the height

of her artistic career. The project called “PIANO, PIANO…” is based upon the

meeting of Anne’s wonderful voice and some of the greatest today’s piano players.

She sings some of the most beautiful jazz standards surrounded by prestigious

piano players as Chick Corea, , Jacky Terrasson, Enrico Pieranunzi and Ren

Urtreger and her quintet (Benoit de Mesmay, piano and Fender Rodes, Sal La

Rocca, double bass, Karl Jannuska/Manhu Roche, drums, Bob Franceschini, sax).

This album is immediately a great public and critic success.



Some National and International Festivals (in

non particular order):



Vienne Jazz Festival / France

Nice Jazz Festival / France

Paris Jazz Festival / France (Parc Floral)

Samois / France - Festival Django Reinhardt

La Dfense Jazz Festival / France

Paris / France (snat) - Esprit Jazz St Germain

Paris / France - Le Trianon (Nuit des Musiciens autour de Birli Lagrne)

Nmes / France - Printemps du Jazz

Capbreton / France - Festival des Rencontres de Capbreton

L'Isle-Adam / France - Jazz au Fil de l'Oise

Cannes / France - Les Victoires du Jazz

JVC Jazz Festival / Paris



Montreux Jazz Festival / Suisse

Montral Jazz Festival Canada

Rimouski / Canada - Festival Jazz Intern ational de Rimouski

Espoo / Finlande - April Jazz Espoo

Jazz Lige / Belgium

Dubai International Jazz Festival ( UAE)

Sharjah Jazz Festival (UAE)

Loule Jazz Festival / Portugal

Brno Jazz Fest / Czech Republic

St. Ingbert Jazz Festival / Germany

Jazz Festival Hildesheim / Germany

Brass Group Jazz Time on Tour / Siracuse - Italy

Blue Note / Milan – Italy

Fandango Jazz Festival – Rome/Italy

Terni Jazz Festival – Terni/ Italy

Verona Jazz Festival -Teatro Greco / Italy

Makor Jazz Club – New York / USA

Trumpets Jazz Club – New Jersey / USA

GINZA JAZZ FESTIVAL , Nexus Hall – Tokyo/Japan

MOTION BLU – Yokohama/Japan



USA – January 2007 – IAJE – BLUE NOTE – ENZO’S JOLLY JAZZ CLUB - NEW YORK

RUSSIA – February 2007 – INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF MUSIC – Moscow

USA – MARCH 2007 – Lincoln Jazz Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola – Vocal Jazz

Festival – NY
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