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, Montr..al…)
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 D..fense Jazz Festival / France
Paris / France (s..nat) - Esprit Jazz .. St Germain
Paris / France - Le Trianon (Nuit des Musiciens autour de Bir..li Lagr..ne)
N..mes / 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
Montr..al Jazz Festival Canada
Rimouski / Canada - Festival Jazz Intern ational de Rimouski
Espoo / Finlande - April Jazz Espoo
Jazz .. Li..ge / 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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