FANCY JAZZ
The golden age of jazz reinvented, blending classical, pop, and Latin jazz.
A familiar yet unprecedented experience.
Jazz has always been a welcoming, open, and inquisitive music, drawing inspiration from both instrumental pieces and songs from other musical traditions.
This tradition abounds with remarkable examples: Jacques Loussier and his reinterpretations of Bach, Thierry Eliez with “3 Around the 4″ as a tribute to the Beatles, Paul Anka with ” Rock Swings”, or Miles Davis reinventing Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time”.
Rose Franck reverses this dynamic by propelling great jazz standards into the parallel universe of their imagination, offering a fresh aesthetic to these timeless songs.
With pop accents, harmonies imbued with 20th century classical music or more ethnic rhythms, Franck Monbaylet creates a sound setting around Rosa Ines’s voice, sensual, strong and rich in her Latin American culture, giving these magnificent timeless songs a new aesthetic, in their debut album in duo
The second album, even more audacious, fully embraces this approach, offering original interpretations in Spanish, performed by an exceptional quartet featuring the marvelous William Brunard on double bass and Frédéric Sicart on drums.
BIO
Franck Monbaylet is a pianist, composer and arranger known for building bridges between musical styles. Whether for variety (Véronique Sanson, Serge Lama, Yves Duteil) or musical comedy (Emilie Jolie), jazz with original creations (Grieg in Blue, Ethno Monk), Spanish works such as La Nuit Obscure (Grand Prix de l’académie Charles Cros), Llanto and Pelleas y Melisanda, rap with Abd Al Malik or ethnic pop with Diego Modena (Ocarina), Franck plays, arranges, orchestrates and conducts. He won the award for best film music at the Beijing festival with Sylvain Chomet for the film Attila Marcel.
Rosa Ines Villegas is a French-Colombian singer, author and composer. Her artistic career is eclectic: cabarets on the Champs Elysées and Tokio (Pau Caraïbes), theater companies (La Llave, Mictlan), jazz clubs and Parisian stages (New Morning, Duc des lombards), international tours, in collaboration and with her own projects (Vibracion del Alma, Quarteto Rosa, Trova Nova, Luis&Rosa). Her music is tinged with the folklore of her Latin American roots, the jazz and pop that surround her and sometimes electro that she explores.
Rose Franck was born in 2022 and has two albums to his credit.
It has performed on different scenes like at the “Les Divas du jazz” Festival in Châteaubriant, at the “Voix Jazz à l’Evêché” Uzes, at the Théâtre de Longjumeau (91), at the “Barjazz Festival” in Barjac (30), at the “Baiser Salé Jazz Club” in Paris, at the “38 Riv Jazz Club” in Paris, at the “Jazz Corner” in Sommieres, at the “Jazz sous les étoiles” festival in Sérignan.
PRESS
VIDEOS
CONCERTS
- 1 August 2025
Jazz au Chateau de la Forêt
1 August 2025 @ 20h00 - 22h30
Château de la Forêt 1 Chemin de la Prairie du Château, 18210 Thaumiers, France
- 13 December 2025
Jazz à La Loyane
13 December 2025 @ 20h00 - 22h30
Domaine La Lôyane 1000 Chemin de la Fontaine des Caven, 30650 Rochefort-du-Gard, FranceLa Loyane
Chemin de la Font des Cavens
30650 Rochefort du gard