Tribute To Didier Lockwood

Thomas Enhco, David Enhco, Benoît Sourisse, and André Charlier pay tribute to their father-in-law and friend Didier Lockwood. A world-famous jazz-rock virtuoso violinist, Didier Lockwood played a decisive role in the artistic vocation of these four musicians. They create music without borders, dense in emotions, at the crossroads of jazz and classical. On stage, everything is energy and improvisation for unique moments! Thomas Enhco is a pianist and composer of jazz and classical music. He won the Martial Solal International Jazz Piano Competition 2010 (3rd prize), the Django d'Or 2010 (New Talent), the FIPA d'Or 2012 (Best Film Music), the Victoires du Jazz 2013 (Revelation ), the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition 2017 (2nd Grand Prize), the ACEG Prize of the Sacem 2017. On the occasion of his 30th birthday, he recorded for Sony Music the album Thirty, which includes five new compositions for solo piano and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, recorded with the Appassionato Ensemble (released February 2019). David Enhco is a trumpeter and composer. In 2010, he founded The Amazing Keystone Big Band with Bastien Ballaz, Jon Boutellier and Fred Nardin. At the same time, David Enhco released three personal albums with his quartet, La Horde (2013), Layers (2014) and Horizons (2017), all of which were critically acclaimed. In 2017, he created a new group, Aksham, with Albanian singer Elina Duni and Swiss pianist Marc Perrenoud. Every year, David Enhco gives numerous concerts on several continents with his quartet, the Keystone Big Band, the Trio Casadesus-Enhco, Aksham and the duo Enhco Brothers which he shares with his brother. In 2018, David Enhco won two Victoires du Jazz in the categories: Rising Artist and Group of the Year. For thirty years and more than 1,500 concerts, André Charlier (drums) and Benoît Sourisse (piano, Hammond organ) have deepened a musical and human relationship of exceptional quality and longevity. The essential tandem of the French scene "Charlier/Sourisse" has collaborated through their 8 albums with Jerry Bergonzi, Kenny Garrett, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Alex Sipiagin, Perico Sambeat, Philip Catherine... Traveling companions of the violinist Didier Lockwood between 1994 and 2004, they also share the stage or the studio with many prestigious musicians such as Toots Thielemans, John Scofield, John McLaughlin, Mike Stern, Steve Gadd, Quincy Jones, Phil Collins, Gil Goldstein, Jean-Jacques Milteau, Michel Petrucciani… They are also co-founders of "Captain", an emblematic group of Rhythm'n Blues which has given more than 1000 concerts in 30 years, recorded 5 CDs, a DVD and won the Public Prize at the Victoires du Jazz 2003. Since 2016, creation of the “Multiquarium Big Band” which has been touring since 2018 with Bireli Lagrène on bass (“I Remember Jaco” project) 2018: release of the album “Tales from Michael” recorded in trio with Louis Winsberg. A vibrant tribute to the music of Michael Brecker. Co-founders of the “CMDL” with Didier Lockwood and Chantal Charlier in 1999, André and Benoît are its educational directors. Very attached to the transmission, they give many Masterclasses in France and abroad (Hanoi, Noumea, Liège, Lausanne, Lisbon, Reunion, Shanghai, Sao Paulo ..)