Persuasive

New European quintet (France, Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg), Persuasive offers an original repertoire that takes us to the sound of hauntingly melodies composed by saxophonist Jean-Baptiste Berger.

Created at Césaré – CNCM – as part of a residency produced by the Reims Sunnyside Festival, these compositions find their influences in contemporary jazz as well as in pop, rock, traditional and classical music.

   Persuasive wants to be cosmopolitan, both in the choice of its musicians and its references, showing the possibility of being native from a place and touching universality, without denying its identity.

After many bands like Cadillac Palace, greeted by the critics and rewarded by a Public Prize at the Tremplin Jazz d’Avignon in 2014, this project has its beginnings at JazzPlaysEurope, European springboard for young jazz musicians for which Jean-Baptiste Berger was selected in 2012 to represent France.

Throughout his meetings, he has surrounded himself with young talents from the european scene to share his music both simple and accessible while being harmonious and rhythmically complex.