Starting with Jon Handelsman, the New Yorker of the band! Jon has given me the pleasure and honor of participating in my bands (when we can get the horns) since the album “I Ain’t Got Time” which was awarded best self-production of the year 1996 by Paris Jazz Radio… Jon is a wonderful soloist, whether on tenor, alto, soprano or flute, he will take you on a journey with no limits in a music rich with his experiences in jazz in the broadest sense of the term. He is also a formidable arranger, recently for Manu Dibango’s orchestra but also for Arthur H or the great Jacques Higelin. Yes, it’s an honor to have someone of this quality on board! For once, and this is the first time, I wrote the brass arrangement on Manhattan, I proposed it as a starting idea to Jon who put it into shape. On trumpet, David Lewis who is also a great musician, composer and arranger for the band PARIS COMBO this Australian based in Paris honors me with his presence on my compositions, as well as Philippe George on trombone who completes perfectly the brass section. The recording was done at the auditorium of St Ouen under the fingers and ears of Ilan the sound engineer and master of the place.