Sylvain GLEVAREC

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Born in 1963, near paris, 1st prize unanimously of agostini school and gold medal of the national academy of cergy-pontoise.
A professional since 1987, he started playing with Roger Guerin’ s big band, then with Alain Jean-Marie, Michel Graillier, Marc Fosset, Marc Laferriere, Jean-Loup Longnon, Daniel Huck, Stéphane Guerault, Marcel Zanini and many others…
Currently, he plays with: Irakli & The Louis Ambassadors, Cécile McLorin Savant, Spirit Of Swing, Swing House 4tet, Tribute To Swing Big Band of Michel Delage and with several Claude Tissendier’s bands :

• Swingtime 4tet
• City swing 6tet
• Countissimo

He often accompanies the American singer Gilda Solve and the trumpet player Alain Bouchet.
He toured in Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Denmark with Rene and Olivier Franc’s band and in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo and others…) with Irakli and the Louis Ambassadors during August 2007, September 2008 and August 2010 with City swing 6et.
He performed in various French festivals such as Marciac, Nice, Vienne (Concert Viewed On Jazz 6 Tv), Saint Raphaël, Montlouis, Bayonne and many foreign festivals like : Dresden (Germany), Ascona (Switzerland), as well as New Orleans Festival (Usa) in August 2001 with Irakli and the Louis Ambassadors

His drum masters are :

• Gene Krupa
• Sydney Cattlet
• Papa Jo Jones

Discography:

• HAPPY FEELING Quintet: "From Swing to Bop" (1998)
• LUDOVIC DE PREISSAC Quintet: "Jazzy Stories" (1998)
• MANU FRAIMAN Quartet: "A Different Voice" (1998)
• MICHEL PASTRE Big Band: "Diggin’the Count" (Démo) (1999)
• IRAKLI ET LES LOUIS AMBASSADORS :
• "Say It With a kiss" (1999)
• "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (2002)
• "Armstrong Hit’s" (2006)
• CLAUDE TISSENDIER Tentet:
• "Hampton Vibrations" (2002)
• CLAUDE TISSENDIER (SWINGTIME):
• "The Licorice Stick" (2002)
• SPIRIT OF SWING
• "The Graptown Grapple" (2003)
• CLAUDE TISSENDIER Quintet
• "Altology" (2004)
• SWING HOUSE
• 4tet: "Ces Petits Riens" (2006)
• CLAUDE TISSENDIER Sextet
• City Swing (2007)
• EDWIGE MORGEN
• Quelque chose dans l'air (2008)
• ALAIN MARQUET 4TET
• Montmartre Boys (2008)
• CLAUDE TISSENDIER
• Countissimo (2009)
• CECILE MC LORIN/SALVANT 6TET
• Hommage à Billie Holiday (2010)
• GILDA SOLVE 6TET
• Hommage à Peggy Lee (2011)