Bojan Z And Julien Lourau

Bojan Zulfikarpasic and Julien Lourau are first and foremost friends. Human, of course, but
but also a musical one. While frequenting Paris jazz clubs in the late '80s, they soon found themselves in Trash Corporation, a short-lived but emblematic group that became the playground where these freedom-loving youngsters tried out all the new paths they could.

Around the same time, they won their first professional awards at the Concours
Concours National de Jazz de la Défense. A first soloist prize - in 1990 for Bojan and in
1992 for Julien - in the most prestigious competition of its kind in France.
two careers made up of individual adventures and successes as well as joint projects.
projects. Bojan and Julien don't just share a generational proximity; one
Bojan and Julien not only share a generational closeness; both can boast of having taken many different paths.

Their careers are a symbol of European jazz at the start of the 21st century, a jazz that transcends borders, both geographical and musical, and which rejects formatting and automatism.