Jerome FouquetJérôme Fouquet, born in 1978, started playing the trumpet at the age of eleven. He studied with Dominique Leroy and Régis Emorine. Early on, he was strongly attracted to improvised musics of the world. At the age of 16, he enrolled at the Académie Departementale de Jazz de l'Oise, and studied with Patrick Dechamp, Michel Kuss and Pierre Fanen. During this period, he began his second love with the bass guitar, of which he studied concurrently with the trumpet. In 2002 he enrolled at Lili et Nadia Boulanger Academy (Paris 9th district) and worked with Nicolas Folmer,Toni Russo, Pierre Bertrand, and participated in Jacques Vidal's sessions . During the period 1999 to 2015, he collaborated, both in France and abroad, with several bands and artists such as LA Flor del Fango, Ouagadou , Sweet Talk, Iswood SSD, L'écharpe Rouge, Kanloar, Latin pop Unit directed by Pascal Brechet, Patrick Vilain, Fabien Norbert, Sophie Darly, Suzanne Davis, Kenichi Matsumoto, Mori Shige, Hideo Ikegami,Yasuhiro Usui,Ono Ryoko, Hataken, Hugues Vincent,Jacques Di Donato, Florent Pujuila, Federico Casagrande Jean Christophe Decourrière ,Julien Jolly, Boris Pelosof, Marc Davidovitz, and dancers Malika Saïd and Stephanie Moitrel... During the same period he led several workshops for improvised collectives (UDEM, CRDPM Les Naïades...), and also ran jam sessions for institutions (Liancourt Prison, Beauvais Vocational Rehabilitation Center, the Conservatory of Tremblay en France) Mortefontaine and Fleurance festivals. In addition to leading his trio Triolisme, the quartet Kuma ochestra and Iternational Supersonic quintet, he is also a sideman in Le Gros Tube, Motionless, Mac Mulinsh, the bluesman Jake Jimmy Kenny, A.R.B.F directed by Yoram Rosilio, CUIR quintet, the Barbes Big Band....
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