louis billette

"Louis Billette makes us penetrate in a tormented prettiness,
which summons emotion without falling into sentimentality."

Jean-Charles Doukhan, TSF Jazz

"Louis Billette Quintet addresses a nod as much to
the great masters of classical music and swing as to painting."

Reto Andreoli, Le Courrier

"Le Temps d'Une Vie develops a soaring, airy repertoire...
And compositions that are both subtle and full of character."

Franpi Barriaux, Citizen Jazz

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to be released in 2023
recorded
at Blend Studio
on April 22nd, 2021
mix and mastering by Antoine Estopey
photo and artwork by PeliPeli
produced by Louis Billette

Louis Billette - saxophones
Shems Bendali - trumpet
Zacharie Ksyk - trombone
Matthieu Llodra - piano
Yves Marcotte - bass
Marton Kiss - drums

Lux proposes a solar and fresh music
as can be the best spring.
Far from the hardbop canons

that the band might suggest,
the sextet embodies a music
that takes shape by small touches
on a canvas of controlled groove.

Lux radiates all at once
energy and emotion.


2021
recorded by Nicolas Baillard and Gérard De Haro
at Studio La Buissonne
mix and mastering by Valentin Liechti
photo and artwork by PeliPeli
produced by Hout Records/Kuroneko

Louis Billette - tenor saxophone
Zacharie Ksyk - trumpet
François Lana - piano
Blaise Hommage - double bass
Marton Kiss - drums

Poetic without being meditative,
the album unfolds like a life,
in its repetitions and surprises,
its affirmations and doubts.

A quest for an inner song,
a setting in music of lived experiences,
but also a return to the roots
of his musical vocation,
between the circularity of hip-hop
and the lyricism of Coltrane.

2019
recorded at Studio Mécanique

mix and mastering by Benoît Corboz
artwork by Romain Billette
produced by QFTF

Louis Billette - tenor saxophone
Zacharie Ksyk - trumpet
François Lana - piano
Blaise Hommage - double bass
Marton Kiss - drums

Influenced by the free spirit and creative force
of his schizophrenic brother,
Louis Billette devotes himself
to music with a special eye.
He brings together musicians of great sensitivity
in the service of a modern music,
with ancient roots and resolutely acoustic.

2017
recorded by Antoine Estoppey at Blend Studio

mix and mastering by François Lana
artwork by Reto Andreoli
produced by QFTF

Louis Billette - tenor saxophone
Zacharie Ksyk - trumpet
François Lana - piano
Blaise Hommage - double bass
Marton Kiss - drums

Music is not only a part of Louis' life,
but the way for him to connect
with something out there
that cannot be reached through
rational thought and experience.
Immersion is a contemplative
and deep first album, but also fresh.