The Hookup - Laurent, Huchard, Moutin Brothers

With their debut album Twenties, The Hookup explores a dialogue between jazz standards and modernity. This collective project celebrates creative freedom and improvisation, building a bold bridge between the heritage of jazz and its contemporary reinvention.

For several years, Géraldine Laurent and the Moutin brothers have seized every opportunity to play together, with each encounter bringing a special magic that pushes them to go further. Recently, their meeting with Noé Huchard, a young pianist of exceptional talent, added a new dimension to this dynamic. Their first session together revealed an instant chemistry, confirming their desire to build something lasting.

With “Twenties,” the musicians explore the idea of a bridge between the 1920s and the 2020s. A hundred years separate these two decades, but they share the same spirit: that of creative momentum and a thirst for freedom. Instead of a nostalgic tribute, the group wants to explore and transform the standards of the 1920s, not to freeze them in time, but to make them resonate in our era, with a resolutely modern outlook.

This project is based above all on total creative freedom, faithful to the spirit of jazz, which is constantly evolving and reinventing itself. The Hookup is both rooted in the history of jazz and resolutely forward-looking, in an approach where sonic exploration is infinite. The four musicians, as co-leaders, offer a collective vision, where each is free to bring their own universe to create an organic and daring whole.

“Twenties” is not a retrospective, but a reinvention, a contemporary project that draws on the roots of jazz in order to better emancipate itself from them. Driven by a desire for renewal and experimentation, it illustrates what contemporary jazz can be: a space of freedom, dialogue, and creative audacity, in perpetual motion.