Stéphane Kerecki was born in Paris in 1970. After his studies in Economics, he entered the
Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance (CNSMDP) where he studied double bass
with Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Riccardo Del Fra and Jean Paul Celea. At the same time, he
joined Steve Potts’s quartet and became a member of the Paris Jazz Big Band.
Stéphane made a name for himself by playing in the bands of Denis Colin, Guillaume de
Chassy, Yaron Herman, Daniel Humair, François Jeanneau, Sheila Jordan, Steve Lehman,
Ronnie Lynn Patterson, Michel Portal, Thomas Savy, Jacky Terrasson…
He has also won numerous awards including First Prize from CNSMDP, and Second Prize
for Best Soloist in the International Jazz Competition in Paris La Defense in 2001 (only bass
player awarded). In 2005, the magazine Jazzman counted him among the "125 talents of
tomorrow".
Since 2003, he's been leading his own trio, with saxophonist Matthieu Donarier and
drummer Thomas Grimmonprez. He made two CDs with the trio: “Story Tellers” and
“Focus Danse”. These recordings received many awards, including the Grand Prix 2007 de
l’Académie Charles Cros, Disque d’Emoi de l’année 2007 (Jazz Magazine), Choc du Monde de
la Musique…
For the third opus of the trio, "Houria", the american saxophonist Tony Malaby (Charlie
Haden, Paul Motian, Daniel Humair, Michel Portal…) was invited to join the band. This
CD was nominated for the French awards "Victoires du Jazz 2009" in the "Instrumental
Revelation" category, and received strong support from the jazz community.
In 2010, Stéphane continued his work with the French label “Zig-Zag Territories”, recording
the CD "Patience" with the English pianist John Taylor (Kenny Wheeler, John Surman, Jan
Garbarek, Miroslav Vitous, Peter Erskine…). This CD was unanimously praised by critics and
received the award "CHOC of the Year 2011" from Jazz Magazine / JAZZMAN.
In 2012, Stéphane Kerecki recorded his latest trio album, "Sound Architects", with two
invited guests: saxophonist Tony Malaby and Serbian pianist Bojan Z (Michel Portal, Henri
Texier, Julien Lourau ...) for the label Outnote/Outhere. This disc was highly acclaimed by the
press ("Indispensable": JAZZ NEWS, "Selection": SO JAZZ, "ELU": citizen Jazz, "MUST": TSF…)
and was selected amongst the three best jazz albums of 2012 in the newspaper "Liberation".
