Vincent Bessières

Biography

Vincent Bessières is a member of the French l'Académie du Jazz and an author and editor who writes frequently and with expertise on jazz. The first ten years of his career were as a journalist, with roles including Associate Editor of Jazzman, the leading jazz magazine in France throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s – he left at the time of the merger with Jazz Magazine. He has also worked for France Musique, the national radio station, and has also been involved in record production as well, founding his own label, jazz&people, which has released around 50 albums featuring French, European, and international artists. He has also been a curator of major exhibitions, notably on celebrating Miles Davis in 2008 at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, another on Django Reinhardt in 2013, and more recently, one about Jean-Michel Basquiat’s relationship with music at the Philharmonie de Paris.