Director of the Masters of Jazz collection, Christian Bonnet played tenor saxophone in the big band Swing Limited Corporation under the direction of Jean-François Georges in the 1960s, later with Eddy Louiss and Alain Bouchet , then in 2014 with Sylvia Howard and the Black Label Swingtet (Sings Duke). As an author, he wrote for Jazz Hot in the 1970s.

An admirer of Duke Ellington , he was president of the Maison du Duke in Paris, founded in 2009, where he organized conferences, concerts and published with Claude Carrière .

Blues historian, Jean Buzelin was born in Paris in 1947. A graduate of Applied Arts, he then attended the Atelier Singier (painting) at the Beaux-Arts de Paris . Graphic designer and designer , he works mainly for publishing (numerous covers and illustrations of books, magazines, record/CD covers, etc.), cultural communication (festival posters, exhibition catalogs, etc.), and press (humorous cartoons by Buz in around thirty newspapers and magazines, including Jazz Hot , Le Monde de la Musique, Jazz Magazine , and Jazzman pour la musique).

Published a collection of drawings: Une Plume dans l'Alambic (Ed. Elzevier, 1993). Numerous personal and group exhibitions in France and abroad.

Furthermore, a historian and music critic, he was a producer at France Musique from 1979 to 1992, and collaborated notably with Jazz Hot , Soul Bag , Jazz Magazine and Jazzman . Author or co-author of several books, numerous booklet texts, and responsible for reissues of CDs (blues, gospel, jazz, Cajun, and French song with Marc Monneraye ), he regularly collaborates on the BD Blues collection.

For many years (from 1975 to 2008) Claude Carrière was a producer at France Musique: “Tout Duke” (1976-1984), the complete work of Duke Ellington in 400 episodes, “Jazz Club”, weekly live from jazz clubs. He also co-produced the magazines “De vous à moi” and “Les demons de midi” in public. Claude Carrière has written for the magazines Jazz Hot and Jazzman… Honorary President of the Jazz Academy and the La Maison du Duke association, member of the Charles Cros Academy , he is an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters and obtained a special Django d'Or in 2000. Author of numerous phonographic editions for RCA, Masters Of Jazz, Dreyfus Jazz, Vogue, Sagajazz, Black and Blue, Cristal Records, BD Jazz, CABU…

Claude Carrière is also a pianist, specialist in the repertoire of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn and released an album “Looking Back” with Rebecca Cavanaugh, Fred Loiseau, MC Dacqui on Black and Blue.

He is at the origin of the Original Sound Deluxe Collection, musical compilations from the Cristal Records label, which pay tribute to the greatest jazz singers and musicians of the 20th century.
Claude Carrière is also a pianist, specialist in the repertoire of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn and released an album “Looking Back” with Rebecca Cavanaugh, Fred Loiseau, MC Dacqui on Black and Blue.

He is at the origin of the Original Sound Deluxe Collection , musical compilations from the Cristal Records label, which pay tribute to the greatest jazz singers and musicians of the 20th century.

Gérard Herzhaft is a French musician, novelist, historian and musicologist. He is a specialist in North American popular music.

Passionate about music and more particularly the blues, he learned the guitar and the harmonica and played in particular with his brother Cisco Herzhaft, an eminent French blues musician. In the 1990s, he recorded three albums with his brother Cisco and his son David, the Hezhaft Blues.

Through his dual training as a musician and historian, he became an important specialist in North American music. From the beginning, he collaborated with various blues magazines. In 1979, he published the first version of his Encyclopedia of the Blues, which he subsequently revised. Among his main works on North American popular music, we note The Guide to Country Music and Folk (1999), Americana, History of North American Music __ (2005), The Great Blues Encyclopedia (2008 ) as well as contributions to various encyclopedias such as Universalis.

From the 1980s, he began a career as a novelist with Un long blues in A minor (1986), which won three literary prizes.

You knew him as a radio man (France Musique and Radio Télévision Suisse - Espace 2), author (Ernest Ansermet, music pioneer), editorialist and critic of "classical" for the QOBUZ download platform, director of the "classical" section from the BDMUSIC collection presenting the history of music in comics or even artistic director (Amadeus Festival 1999-2003), but our man has always been passionate about painting. From the age of 14, his attendance at museums allowed him to gradually assimilate images, styles and colors.

Having tried his hand at a very young age with Ruth Dombald in Geneva, who taught him the basics of oil painting, François Hudry now paints with acrylic, mainly on canvas, with an intense need for expression.

More than the subject, it is the material that he wants to exploit, even if his sense of harmony often brings him back to forms closer to reality, in particular trees, living symbols of a threatened nature. . He works as an autodidact, trying to create his own universe. He was made a Knight of Arts and Letters by the Minister of Culture in 2012.

Journalist and historian of French song, Producer on France Musique and France Culture , Martin Pénet has published numerous articles and reference works on song, directed numerous heritage reissues on CD . It has also been building up for twenty years a vast documentary collection on the history of song, music hall, cabarets: records, scores, programs, books, photos, press, etc. He is also designer and artistic director of Labelchanson . From 2004 to 2016, he provided a regular column on the song in the show Étonnez-moi Benoît on Saturday on France Musique. Since 2017, he has hosted his own show Tour de chant on France musique, dedicated to the history of French-speaking song.

Musician and rock historian, Jean-William Thoury was, at the end of the seventies, the producer/author and the soul of the group Bijou, for whom Serge Gainsbourg composed "Betty Jane Rose". He is also a collector and an essential rock critic. You can read it in Jukebox Magazine, Rock & Folk, etc.

Jean-William Thoury is, as a lyricist or director, responsible for some classics of French rock (not to say rock itself) and, moreover, one of the pioneers of rock journalism (Extra, Best, Feeling …).

He has notably written: Gene Vincent - The God of Rock (2010, ed. Camion Blanc), The Dictionary of Songs by Serge Gainsbourg (2007, ed. Scali) and The Dictionary of Songs by Johnny Hallyday (2002, ed. Mascara) .