METROPOLITAN JAZZ AFFAIR

MJA came into being the end of 2001 as a collaboration between the well-known Bruno Hovart, aka Patchworks (Rainer Trub, Gilles Peterson, Richard Dorfmeister, Nick Weston, Morpheus), the outstanding trumpet master Stéphane Ronget and pianist Benjamin Dévigne from Colorblind.

The sound of MJA has rapidly established itself because it is at the core of the break-through trend of Electro Jazz, also called Nu-Jazz.
This innovative genre is born from true jazz spirit and is currently ruling the dance floors of the world thanks to active underground labels such as Compost (Rainer Truby) or Jazz Land (Bugge Wesseltoft).

The album features outstanding performances of guests including singers Eric Duperray (Guidance, Glasgow Underground, Rotax Records), Sandra Mandengue' (Maeza, Colorblind) and the sax player David Prez (Colorblind) .

Members of MJA:

Stéphane Ronget - Located in Montreal, and decorated by the Lion Jazz Conservatoire. The variety of his trumpet play really suits the MJA direction.

Benjamin Dévigne - Pianist for the Colorblind group, he brings a touch of harmony thanks to his keyboard control (Piano, Hammond, Rhodes)

Bruno aka Patchworks - He is in charge of program planning, percussion, bass and guitar.