Richard Galliano is a French accordionist of Italian heritage.
David Linx is a Belgian jazz singer and songwriter.
Christophe Rousset is a French harpsichordist and conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments. He is also a musicologist, particularly of opera and European music of the 17th and 18th centuries and is the founder of the French music ensemble Les Talens Lyriques.
Nguyên Lê is a French jazz musician and composer of Vietnamese ancestry. His main instrument is guitar, and he also plays bass guitar and guitar synthesizer.
Sandrine Piau is a French soprano. She is particularly renowned in Baroque music although also excels in Romantic and modernist art songs. She has the versatility to perform works from Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart to Schumann, Debussy, and Poulenc. In addition to an active career in concerts and operas, she is prolific in studio recordings, primarily with Harmonia Mundi, Naïve, and Alpha since 2018.
Michel Portal is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz".
Sylvain Luc is a French jazz guitarist.
Daniel Humair is a Swiss drummer, composer, and painter.
Stéphane Belmondo is a French jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and drummer. Including recordings made with his brother Lionel Belmondo and Yusef Lateef, he won the best French album category (L'Album français de l'année) in 2003, 2004 and 2005, and the best artist award (L'Artiste ou la Formation instrumentale française de l'année) in 2003 and 2004. in the French Victoires du Jazz awards. Along with his brother, he is noted for tribute albums that involve the musicians being honored.
The Diapason d'Or is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of Diapason magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the British Gramophone magazine.
André "Dédé" Ceccarelli is a French jazz drummer
Paris Jazz Festival is a jazz festival in Paris, France, established in 1994.
Georgi Kornazov is a Bulgarian jazz trombonist and composer, who lives in Paris, France.
Les Victoires du jazz are a French annual awards ceremony devoted to Jazz. First appeared in the Victoires de la Musique in 1986 and awarded within the Victoires de la musique classique from 1994, trophies related to jazz are the subject of a specific ceremony, called "Victories of Jazz" since 2002. The award is recognized internationally. The award is internationally perceived.
The Prix Django Reinhardt is an award granted by the French Académie du Jazz for the best French jazz musician of the year. It is named after Django Reinhardt. The prize is determined by a jury of jazz journalists, producers, and musicians.
François Chassagnite was a French jazz trumpeter, who played with the Orchestre National de Jazz, Gérard Badini, Gil Evans and others.
Orchestra National de Jazz is a French jazz ensemble originally created at the initiation of Jack Lang, at that time Minister of Culture. Its first leader was François Jeanneau.
Bernard Lubat is a French jazz drummer, pianist, singer, percussionist, vibraphonist, and accordionist.
Frank Braley is a French classical pianist.
Jérôme Correas is a French conductor, harpsichordist and bass baritone.
