“Winner of the Audience Award at the 2023 Nîmes Métropole Jazz Festival's emerging talent competition, the Javotte Quartet was created by flautist and composer Lucie Jahier. To find her own “voice” and break free from conventions, she composed eclectic, tailor-made musical pieces influenced by Hermeto Pascoal, Magic Malik, Naïssam Jalal, Ian Clarke, and George Philipp Telemann. Seeking to push the boundaries of styles and embracing genre-blending, she fuses all her influences—choro, jazz, forró, jazz-rock, improvised music, and contemporary music—to create a vibrant and explosive sound…”

Lucie Jahier: flutes and compositions;
Laëtitia Bonnin: piano and keyboards;
Fabien Dechaumont: drums;
Gonzalo Alfaro Ugaz: bass