Uptake
Biography Uptake
UPTAKE
gathers together four young jazz musicians from the Lyon music scene: Robinson Khoury (winner of an international jazz trombone prize), Paul Berne (Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, drummer with Le Grand Escalier), Pierre Gibbe (bassist with Motown Revival and Le Migou) and Bastien Brison, a pianist whose fame is constantly growing (he has played with Ari Hoenig in New York and Sangoma Everett in Lyon). Their playlist is made up of compositions influenced by the new generation of American artists: interplay, a sense for the melody and a good dose of energy characterise their electric form of jazz imprinted with elements from rock, pop and hip-hop. In 2013, UPTAKE won the Un Doua de Jazz then the JAZZ(s)RA contests before carrying off their Vienne prize.
