Shawn McPherson is a Canadian blues harmonica player and singer. Having played the blues around Quebec since he was a young teen, he has already established himself as one of the great up-and-coming Canadian harmonica players and frontmen. With a booming voice and energetic stage presence, your attention will be drawn-in from the first note.

Heavily influenced by authentic Chicago bluesmen such as Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Big Walter Horton, Shawn and his band play authentic Chicago Blues. Using period-correct instruments, microphones, and amplifiers, you’ll be taken back in time to the juke joints of the early 1950s.

Originaire de Créteil (France), le pianiste français Simon Denizart arrive en 2011 à Montréal et il ne perd pas de temps pour faire entendre ses couleurs jazz. Diplômé du Conservatoire et de l’Université de Montréal, il démontre rapidement un goût pour la composition et se consacre principalement à sa musique. Cependant il a collaboré avec plusieurs artistes tels que Fred Wesley (USA), Ramon Chicharron (Colombie), Rachel Therrien (Canada), K-Iri (Ethiopie/ Canada), Hichem Khlafa (France), Kid be Kid (Allemagne)…

Accompagné par le percussionniste Elli Miller Maboungou et la contrebassiste Jeanne Corpataux-Blache, ils forment ensemble un trio original et dynamique qui repousse les frontières des esthétiques instrumentales traditionnelles. A l’image de notre société, il est un jazz métissé, ouvert sur le multi-culturalisme, connecté aux créations contemporaines et tourné vers les nouvelles technologies tout en conservant une source sonore acoustique.

Piano : Simon Denizart
Contrebasse : Jeanne Corpataux-Blache
Percussion : Elli Miller Maboungou

The Trio is formed of Jean Derome on saxophones and flutes, Normand Guilbeault on doublebass and Pierre Tanguay on drums. These three musicians enjoy a strong reputation on the Montréal music scene and even though they are mostly known as new music and jazz musicians, they are often spotted accompanying our best singers-songwriters, poets, filmmakers, choreographers, etc.

Already active for almost a decade, the Derome Guilbeault Tanguay Trio has presented many repertoires in the past: tributes to Billy Strayhorn and Charles Mingus; an excursion into the Swing repertoire of the ‘30s and ‘40s, with renditions of tunes by Johnny Hodges, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, etc.; and more recently serious forays into the music of Eric Dolphy, Sonny Clark, Misha Mengelberg, Roland Kirk, Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano.