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ensemble originally created at the initiation of Jack Lang, at that time

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. Its first leader was

François Jeanneau François Jeanneau (born June 15, 1935, Paris) is a French jazz saxophonist, flautist, and composer. Jeanneau studied flute under René Leroy at the Paris Conservatory, but was an autodidact on saxophone.Michel Laplace, "Francois Jeanneau". '' The ...

Members

ONJ François Jeanneau, 1986

: soprano and tenor saxophone, director * François Chassagnite, Michel Delakian, Christian Martinez, Éric Mula : trumpet, bugle * Jean-Louis Damant,

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: trombone * Didier Havet, tuba * Éric Barret,

Jean-Louis Chautemps Jean-Louis Chautemps (6 August 1931 – 25 May 2022) was a French jazz saxophonist. Career Born in Paris, Chautemps initially studied medicine and law, and began playing saxophone at age 16. His first major gig was with Jef Gilson in 1950. In 1 ...

, Richard Foy, Pierre-Olivier Govin : tenor and soprano saxophone * Bruno Rousselet : bassoon,

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Marc Ducret Marc Ducret (born 19 August 1957) is a contemporary avant-garde jazz guitarist who frequently collaborates with saxophonist Tim Berne. Ducret's guitar style is idiosyncratic, having been called "highly original and very expressive," but also ...

: guitar *

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: piano électrique, synthesizer * Denis Badault : piano acoustique, synthesizer *

Michel Benita Michel Benita at ''INNtöne Jazzfestival'' in 2019 Michel Benita (born 1954 in Algiers, Algeria) is a double bass player, prominent in jazz music since 1980's. He moved to Paris in 1981 and became one of the major discoveries in European jazz ...

: double-bass, electric bass * Aaron Scott : drums * François Verly : vibraphone, marimba, percussion

ONJ Antoine Hervé, 1987 to 1989

Antoine Hervé Antoine Hervé (born 20 January 1959 in Paris) is a French composer and pianist. Hervé studied composition at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique. Between 1987 and 1989 he was director of the French National Jazz Orchestra. Next to ...

: piano, director *

André Ceccarelli André "Dédé" Ceccarelli (born 5 January 1946) is a French jazz drummer. Biography After learning to play the drums from his father, Ceccarelli started out playing in the salons of the Hotel Royal Nice Promenade des Anglais at the age of fif ...

, Mokhtar Samba : drums * Pierre-Michel Balthazar, François Verly : percussion *

Jean-Marc Jafet Jean Marc Jafet (born May 8, 1956) is a French bassist and composer. He is considered one of the top bassists in France. Biography Jean-Marc Jafet was born on May 8, 1956 in Nice, France, to guitarist father and mother singer. JM Jafet start ...

, Étienne M'Bappé, François Moutin : double-bass, bass * Philippe Guez : keyboards *

Nguyên Lê Nguyên Lê (Vietnamese: ''Lê Thành Nguyên''; born 14 January 1959) is a French jazz musician and composer of Vietnamese ancestry. His main instrument is guitar, and he also plays bass guitar and guitar synthesizer. He has released albums ...

: guitar * Patrice Petitdidier : french horn * Didier Havet : tuba * Jacques Bolognesi, Bernard Camoin,

Glenn Ferris Glenn Arthur Ferris (born June 27, 1950) is an American jazz trombonist who has also worked in other fields. Outside of jazz he has played for Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, and Duran Duran. He studied classical music from 1958 to 196 ...

, Gilles Salommez : trombones * Michel Delakian, Antoine Illouz, Christian Martinez, Philippe Slominski : trumpet, bugle * Francis Bourrec, Gilbert Dall'anese,

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, Pierre-Olivier Govin, Alain Hatot, Jean-Pierre Solves : saxophones

ONJ Claude Barthélémy, 1989 to 1991

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: director, guitar * Manuel Denizet, Christian Lété : drums *

Renaud Garcia-Fons Renaud Garcia-Fons (born December 24, 1962) is a highly accomplished French upright-bass player and composer. Career Garcia-Fons started his musical studies at an early age. At five years old he picked up playing the piano, switched to classic ...

, Jean-Luc Ponthieux : double-bass, electric bass * Serge Lazarevitch,

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: guitar * Jean-Louis Matinier : accordion * Mico Nissim : piano *

Michel Godard Michel Godard is a French avant-garde jazz and classical musician. He plays tuba and the predecessor of the tuba, a brass instrument known as the serpent. Career At 18, Godard was a member of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio-France. He has ...

: tuba * Yves Favre, Luca Bonvini : trombone * Jean-François Canape, Patrick Fabert : trumpet, bugle * Michael Riessler, Bobby Rangell : saxophones

ONJ Denis Badault, 1991 to 1994

* Denis Badault : director, piano *

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: drums * Xavier Desandre Navarre :percussion * Heiri Kaenzig, Bob Harrison : double-bass, electric bass *

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: guitar * Laurent Hoevenaers : cello * Nedim Nalbantoglu : violin * Didier Havet : tuba * Jean-Louis Pommier, Geoffroy de Masure : trombone * Claude Égéa, Claus Stötter : trumpet, bugle * Rémi Biet, Laurent Blumenthal, Philippe Sellam, Simon Spang-Hanssen : saxophones * Élise Caron : vocals

ONJ Laurent Cugny, 1994 to 1997

Laurent Cugny Laurent Cugny (born 14 April 1955 in La Garenne-Colombes) is a French jazz musician (pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger), jazz critic and musicologist. In 1987, he recorded two albums with his big band Lumière and Gil Evans. Awards *Djan ...

: director, piano * Stéphane Huchard : drums * Frédéric Monino : electric bass *

, Frédéric Favarel : guitar * Benoît de Mesmay : keyboards * Bernard François, Jacques Peillon : french horn * Philippe Legris, Christian Laisné : tuba *

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: trombone * Claude Égéa, Serge Plume, Claus Stötter, Pierre Drevet,

Flavio Boltro Flavio Boltro (born May 5, 1961) is an Italian trumpet and flugelhorn jazz player. Career Flavio Boltro started playing trumpet at age nine and then entered the Turin school of Classical Music "G.Verdi". During his seven years at the school, ...

: trumpet, bugle * Stefano Di Battista, Boris Blanchet, Pierre-Olivier Govin, Stéphane Guillaume : saxophones * Denis Barbier : flute

ONJ Didier Levallet, 1997 to 2000

Didier Levallet Didier Levallet (born 19 July 1944, in Arcy-sur-Cure, France) is a French jazz double bassist, composer, arranger and leader. A self-taught bassist, Levallet made his professional debut in Paris in 1969, working with such artists as Ted Curson, J ...

, director, double-bass * Harry Beckett, Michel Feugère, Nicolas Folmer : trumpet, bugle * Lionel Surin : french horn *

: trombone * Chris Biscoe : alto saxophone, alto clarinet * Frédéric Couderc : tenor and soprano saxophone, clarinet * Jean-Rémy Guédon, tenor saxophone * Richard Foy, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet * Serge Lazarevitch, guitar *

Sophia Domancich Sophia Domancich (born 25 January 1957) is a French pianist and jazz composer.''Biographie de Sophia Domancich'' sur le site de lCité de la musique de Paris/ref> Life and Work Domancich began learning piano at the age of six and attended the ...

, piano * François Laizeau, : drums

ONJ Paolo Damiani, 2000 to 2002

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: director, cello * Christophe Marguet : drums * : double-bass * Olivier Benoit, Manu Codjia : guitar *

Régis Huby Régis Huby (born 22 June 1969 in Rennes, France) is a French jazz violinist, composer, and arranger. Biography Huby studied classical music at the Conservatory in Rennes with Catherine Luquin, at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musiqu ...

: violin * Didier Havet : tuba *

Gianluca Petrella Gianluca Petrella is an Italian jazz trombonist. In 2001 he won Italy's Django d'Or Award as well as Musica Jazz's annual critics poll as Best Young Talent. In 2006 and 2007 he was featured in ''Down Beat'' magazine, winning their award for "Bes ...

, Guéorgui Kornazov : trombone *

Médéric Collignon Médéric Collignon (born 6 July 1970 in Villers-Semeuse, Ardennes) is a French people, French jazz vocalist, cornettist and saxhorn player. He learnt to play the trumpet at the age of five, became a pupil at the Conservatoire de Charleville-Mé ...

, Alain Vankenhove : trumpet, bugle, cornet *

, Javier Girotto,

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, Thomas de Pourquery, Jean-Marc Larché : saxophones * Laure Donnat : vocals

ONJ Claude Barthélemy, 2002 to 2005

- director, guitar, oud, composition * Jean-Luc Landsweerdt - drums * Vincent Limouzin - vibraphone, marimba * Nicolas Mahieux - double-bass * Olivier Lété - electric bass * Didier Ithursarry - accordion * Alexis Thérain - guitar * Sébastien Llado - trombone * Jean-Louis Pommier - trombone * Pascal Benech - trombone bass *

– pocket cornet * Geoffroy Tamisier - trumpet, bugle * Vincent Mascart - saxophones * Philippe Lemoine - saxophones

ONJ Franck Tortiller, 2005 to 2008

Permanent : * Franck Tortiller-: director, vibraphone, composition * Vincent Limouzin - vibraphone, marimba * Patrice Héral - drums, voix * David Pouradier-Duteil - drums * Yves Torchinsky - double-bass * Jean Gobinet - trumpet, bugle * Éric Séva - saxophones * Jean-Louis Pommier - trombone * Michel Marre - tuba Programme Close to Heaven : * Xavier Garcia - samples, electronics Programme Sentimental 3/4 : * Herbert Joos - trumpet, bugle * Bruno Wilhelm - saxophones * Éric Bijon - accordion Programme Électrique : *Joël Chausse - trumpet, bugle *Claude Gomez - samples, electronics

ONJ Daniel Yvinec, 2009 to 2013

* Daniel Yvinec- artistic director * Ève Risser - piano, prepared piano, alto flute * Vincent Lafont - keyboards, electronics * Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto saxophone, clarinet * Matthieu Metzger - saxophones, electronics * Joce Mienniel - flutes, electronics * Rémi Dumoulin - tenor saxophone, clarinet * Guillaume Poncelet - trumpet, bugle, synthesizers (from 2009 to 2011) * Sylvain Bardiau - trumpet, bugle, trombone (from 2011 to 2013) * Pierre Perchaud - guitar, banjo * Sylvain Daniel - electric bass * Yoann Serra - drums

ONJ Olivier Benoit, 2014 to 2017

* Olivier Benoit – artistic director, guitar, composition *

Bruno Chevillon Bruno Chevillon (born 23 August 1959) is a French jazz double bassist who is well known in avant-garde jazz as well as in new improvised music. Life Born in Valréas Vaucluse (département), Vaucluse, Chevillon followed a double training sin ...

– artistic counsel, double-bass, electric bass * Jean Dousteyssier - clarinet, tenor saxophone * Alexandra Grimal - tenor and soprano saxophone * Hugues Mayot - saxophones, clarinet * Fidel Fourneyron - trombone, tuba * Fabrice Martinez - trumpet, bugle, saxhorn * Théo Ceccaldi - violin, alto * Sophie Agnel - piano, nOpianO/chordophone *

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- keyboards * Éric Échampard - drums

Discography

*1986 : ''ONJ 86'',

Label Bleu Label Bleu is a French jazz record label founded by Michel Orier. Orier established the label in the mid-1980s in Amiens and soon after took over directorship of Amiens's cultural center, where he was able to build a recording studio. Label Bleu ...

(ONJ François Jeanneau) *1987 : ''ONJ 87'', Label Bleu (ONJ Antoine Hervé) *1989 : ''ONJ 88-89 African Dream'', Label Bleu (ONJ Antoine Hervé) *1990 : ''Claire'', Label Bleu (ONJ Claude Barthélemy) *1991 : ''Jack Line'', Label Bleu (ONJ Claude Barthélemy) *1992 : ''À plus tard'', Label Bleu (ONJ Denis Badaud) *1993 : ''Monk - Mingus - Ellington'', Label Bleu (ONJ Denis Badault) *1994 : ''Bouquet final'', Label Bleu (ONJ Denis Badault) *1996 : ''In Tempo'',

Verve Records Verve Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG). Founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, the label is home to the world's largest jazz catalogue, which includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, ...

(ONJ Laurent Cugny) *1996 : ''Reminiscing'', Verve Records (ONJ Laurent Cugny) *1997 : ''Merci, Merci, Merci'', Verve Records (ONJ Laurent Cugny) *1998 : ''ONJ Express'',

Evidence Records Evidence for a proposition is what supports this proposition. It is usually understood as an indication that the supported proposition is true. What role evidence plays and how it is conceived varies from field to field. In epistemology, evidenc ...

, (ONJ Didier Levallet) *1999 : ''Séquences'', Evidence, (ONJ Didier Levallet) *2000 : ''Deep Feelings'', Evidence - Frémeaux & Associés, (ONJ Didier Levallet) *2002 : ''Charméditerranéen'',

ECM Records ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's a ...

(ONJ Paolo Damiani) *2003 : ''Admirabelamour'', Label Bleu (ONJ Claude Barthélemy) *2004 : ''La fête de l'eau'', Le Vocals du Monde (ONJ Claude Barthélemy) *2004 : ''L'ONJ traverse le Canada'', DVD Frémeaux & Associés (ONJ Claude Barthélemy) *2005 : ''Close to Heaven'', Le Vocals du Monde (ONJ Franck Tortiller) *2007 : ''Électrique'', Le Vocals du Monde (ONJ Franck Tortiller) *2009 : ''Around Robert Wyatt'', Bee Jazz (ONJ Daniel Yvinec) *2010 : ''Shut Up And Dance'', Bee Jazz (ONJ Daniel Yvinec) *2012 : ''Piazzolla!'', JazzVillage (ONJ Daniel Yvinec) *2014 : ''The Party'', JazzVillage (ONJ Daniel Yvinec) *2014 : ''Europa Paris'', ONJazz Records (ONJ Olivier Benoît) *2015 : ''Europa Berlin'', ONJazz Records (ONJ Olivier Benoît)

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References

French jazz ensembles Musical groups established in 1986 Label Bleu artists Verve Records artists