SÉBASTIEN VIDAL
Sébastien Vidal is is a central figure in French jazz.
He is the artistic director of the essential Parisian jazz club Le Duc des Lombards, where artists from France and around the world come to perform.
Abroad, he actively contributes to promoting and disseminating work from the French jazz scene, particularly in New York, where he organizes the annual French Quarter jazz festival.
Finally, he contributes more broadly to spreading jazz in his role as director of TSFJAZZ, a jazz radio station boasting more than 430,000 listeners daily. He also programs several mainstream jazz festivals. He has written for the magazine Jazzmag and for L’Humanité Dimanche. Today he writes for Jazz News. He is a member of the Académie du jazz.