Jérôme Fouquet

Jérôme FOUQUET
Born in 1978 in Beauvais city ( France ) he shares his childhood between the practice of trumpet and bass. He began to study jazz at the Departmental Academy of Jazz of Oise. Then enters in 2002 to the Paris 9th district's conservatory where he studied with Nicolas Folmer, Tony Russo, Pierre Bertrand and Jacques Vidal. Prolific trumpet player evolving as well in jazz, funk or improvised music and insatiable traveler, he collaborates in France and abroad, especially in Japan, with many formations and artists such as Jean Michel Couchet, Didier Malherbe,Sylvain Barou, Jacques Di Donato, Florent Pujuila , Simon Goubert, Boris Blanchet, Morishige Yasumune, Kita Naoki, Matsumoto Kenichi, Ogino Yasuyoshi, Matsumura Takumi, to mention just a few ... In recent years he has performed with his own bands KUMA! and Elastic Tribe

He works regularly with Le Gros Tube brass band, Yoram Rosilio's Anti Rubber Brain Factory, Orchestre 2035, Maxime Perrin's Célestins, Benoît Crauste's Bettersweet and Spacebop Quintet, Death Breath Orchestra, Nebula Machina...