François Moutin

In 1989, then 27 years old Parisian but today New-yorker François Moutin was recognized one of the finest young jazz bass players in Europe. He had already performed with some of the greatest: Randy Brecker, Peter Erskine, Martial Solal, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, James Moody and Michel Legrand.

He then began a long-lasting enterprise of co-leading projects with his brother, drummer Louis Moutin, relentlessly touring around the world while releasing ten highly and extensively praised albums.

In 1995, François moved his base to New York City where he quickly found himself involved in two of the most cutting-edge and exploring jazz groups of our time: Pilc-Moutin-Hoenig, and the Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet.

François has been rewarded several times in the DownBeat Critics Poll as a peer of legendary jazz bassists such as Ron Carter, Dave Holland and Miroslav Vitous. He has collaborated with many of the premier artists of the New York jazz scene and of the whole world’s jazz elite, from Mike Stern to Jack de Johnette.