How do you follow up a successful album like “Americana”? Released in April 2020, it not only received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, it has also registered streaming statistics approaching ten million. It brought together harmonica player Grégoire Maret and pianist Romain Collin, performing in a trio with Bill Frisell in which the three found happy common ground in their “shared love of jazz, song and pure melody” (Jazziz), and offered listeners a "gorgeous meditation on the American Dream." (Bill Milkowski).

“Americana” and Maret and Collin's subsequent work together helped to cement a friendship between these two fine New York-based musicians with Francophone origins (Geneva and Antibes respectively). As Collin says: “There is something about the way we work together that feels very fluid and natural.”

Grégoire Maret / chromatic harmonica

Romain Collin / steinway d & keyboards

Marcus Gilmore / drums

Burniss Earl Travis II / bass

Marvin Sewell / guitar

Alexandra Sopp /flute

Special guests:

Cassandra Wilson / vocals

Gregory Porter / vocals