Xavier Desandre Navarre (born 11 October 1961), a.k.a. XDN, is a French

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musician, percussionist and drummer.

Youth

Xavier Desandre Navarre was born in Paris. He spends a great part of his childhood between Paris and the southern French city of

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, but a year spent with his family in

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that awakened his passion for the variety of rhythms offered by percussions. Back in France, in 1975, he starts learning music academically by studying classical percussion at Aix-en-Provence

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. In the meantime, he also learnt Brazilian rhythms and percussion, from

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to candomble, with Sylvio de Santana Jr. and Brazilian

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and conductor Nicia Ribas d'Avila. He started playing

, and improvising on African and Cuban music. His musical philosophy is to create bridges between these different styles.

Career

In 1987, Xavier Desandre Navarre moved to Paris and begins his career with musician Laurent Cugny in the ''Big Band Lumière'' for a European tour with

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. In 1991, he joined the National Jazz Orchestra directed by Denis Badault. In the same time, he leads a hyperproductive jazz and variety sideman career. Between 1991 and 2012, Xavier Desandre Navarre directs or takes part in more than 150 CDs and recordings, some of which are gold records or have received prestigious distinctions. The latest one was recorded with Korean singer

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, and was nominated best French jazz album in 2010 and Gold CD in Germany in 2011. Xavier Desandre Navarre develops a very specific musical identity by the eclectic rhythms he harmonizes with his voice. Along his career, he is the guest of the

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, and plays with such musicians as

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or Stefano di Battista. He is also particularly appreciated by

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n musicians with whom he records many projects. In this, he plays with guitarist

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and singer Caecillie Norby. Equally at ease with the intimacy of jazz and with the superproductions of the electronic scene, he give a live gig with French electro music icon

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, at the Salle

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in Paris in 2010, and later plays the same project for two consecutive nights at the

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. He also takes part in many shows and performances, as he did for the French

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in 2009, by giving a concert at the

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in Paris. In 2010, he played in a show called ''Story of Earth and Water'' created for the

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. In 2012, he will present his latest solo project ''Beat, body and soul'' at the

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. At the same time he presents two more creations at the

, United Nations of Groove ( Black music & Jazz) quartet with singer Allonymous and visual designer Tekyes, and In-Pulse acoustic jazz quartet. In 1998, he composed music for the opening ceremony of the

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in Paris and took part in the creation of the independent production label ''Peak Power'' in 1999. Navarre also composes scores, as he did for

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's film ''Léon'', starring

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in 1994, or for

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's ''

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'' starring

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and

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in 2008. All along his career, he also composed many scores for TV documentaries, for

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and

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. More recently, in 2011, he acted the part of a jazz musician in a film dealing with the life of Pierre Goldman.

Chronology (non-exhaustive)

* 1987/88 :

& Big Band Lumière Dir° Laurent Cugny : European

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and recording of 2 albums. * 1991 / 1994 : Orchestre National de Jazz Dir° Denis Badault : European

and recording of 3 albums. * 1992 : Creation of Solo project : " Tribalmopolite " at the Blue Suberbs Festival. * 1993 :

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& Liberation Orchestra, Concerts at the Blue Suberbs Festival. * 1994 :

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: French tour and promotion of the " Systeme D " album. * 1994 : Iwao Furusawa : Japanese and European tours. * 1994 : Niels Lan Doky, Caecilie Norby, Lars Danielsson, World tours and concerts. Live & studio recordings. * 1995 / 1998 :

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, concerts et studio recordings. * 1997 :

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: World tours and concerts (incl,

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NYC). * 1997 : " Dreaming With Open Eyes ". Tour and TV recordings Niels Lan Doky,

, Randy Brecker, Lisa Nilsson, Terry Lyne Carrington, Gino Vanelli. * 1998 : " Mondial 98 " Recording of opening ceremony. * 1999 : Literary concerts with Frederic Pagès. Gigs and studio recording. * 2000 :

, World Tour, live and studio recordings (3 CD et DVD). * 2000 : Records his Cd " Zoom " Spicy & Trippy Jazz. * 2003 : Lars Danielsson & Symphonic Orchestra, " Libera me " Concerts in Europe, studio recordings TV live broadcasts. * 2003 : Composer for " Comptines et berceuses du Baobab " CD Book. Golden disc and Grand Prix of the Charles Cros academy. * 2004 : " Wishing Upon The Moon ", XDN & Niels Lan Doky, Vietnam All Stars. International gigs (incl. Viet-Nam). * 2005 : Julia Migenes " Alter Ego " & " Hollywood Divas " World Tour. * 2005 : Carte Blanche du festival de Saint Germain, Nordic Connection X DN Quintet (feat Bobo Stenson, Nils Landgren, Caecilie Norby, Lars Danierlsson). * 2008 :

. Recording of 3 CDs, concerts and world tour (incl. China &

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). * 2009 : " Braining Storm " Studio recording and gigs. * 2010 : " The Strory of Earth & Water " co-production with Niels Lan Doky of a Cd and a project for the

. * 2010 : " Its Just Music " Live DVD at Pleyel with

. * 2010 : XDN, Niels Lan Doky & The Daar-Es-Salam University Choir, Concert in Tanzania for the Copenhaguen ecologic forum. * 2010 : Jacques Vidal Quintet, Concerts and gigs on the music of

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. * 2011 : Creation of solo show BEAT BODY & SOUL. * 2012 : Cd recording with Jean-Pierre Mas " Juste Après" Cristal records /

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. * 2012 : Production of a CD-Book in Brazil with Slammeurs from São Paulo and texts from the afro-Brazilian literature. * 2012 : Production d'un livre-CD au Brésil avec des Slammeurs de Sao Paulo et des textes issus de la littérature afro-brésilienne. * 2013 : Album "Lento" avec Youn Sun Nah Disque d'or. * 2014 : Album "In Pulse" Harmonia Mundi Xavier Desandre Navarre Quartet avec Stéphane Guillaume, Emil Spanyi, et Stéphane Kerecki. Guest Vincent Peirani. * 2015 : "Wanderer Septet" création du contrebassiste Yves Rousseau avec Régis Huby produit par le Théâtre 71 Scène Nationale de Malakoff autour du répertoire de Franz Schubert. * 2016 : Tournée "Wanderer" et "In Pulse" création de "Pasionaria" (chants et mots de la guerre d'Espagne) coproduit par le Théâtre de Nîmes. * 2017 : Professeur invité pour l'Académie de Hautbois internationale dirigée par Jean-Luc Fillon * 2017 : Concert création : "L'Épopée de Gilgamesh" avec Abed Azrié. * 2017 : "Wanderer" tournée en Chine. * 2018 : Artiste créateur en résidence au Théatre de Mlakoff (Scène Nationale) * 2018 : Création du repertoire IN PULSE 2 * 2018 : Création du nouveau répertoire Xavier Desandre Navarre "Beat Body & Soul" solo concert * 2019 : Enregistrement d'IN PULSE 2 * 2020 : Création de la pièce "AKZAK" '(danse contemporaine) * 2020 : Enregistrement d "AKZAK" musique de la chorégraphie D'Héla Fattoumi et Eric Lamoureux * 2020 : Sortie du CD Xavier Desandre Navarre "IN PULSE 2" * 2020 : Tournée Xavier Desandre Navarre "IN PULSE 2" * 2020 : sortie du CD "AKZAK" musique de la chorégraphie D'Héla Fattoumi et Eric Lamoureux * 2020 : Enregistrement de "Raphael Lemonnier & La Trova project" * 2020 : Composition de la musique du film "Le fou, le psy, et la pasteure" de Julie Clavier * 2020 : Tournée "AKZAK" (Europe, Burkina Faso) * 2021 : Tournée "AKZAK" (Europe, Maroc, Tunisie, Egypte) * 2021 : Tournée "La Trova Project"

Discography (non-exhaustive)

As Leader and co-Leader

* Xavier Desandre Navarre "AKZAK" musique de la chorégraphie D'Héla Fattoumi et Eric Lamoureux * Xavier Desandre Navarre / « IN PULSE 2 » Crystal Records * Xavier DESANDRE-NAVARRE / "IN PULSE" JazzVillage / harmonia mundi JV 570043 * Xavier DESANDRE-NAVARRE / "Zoom" Peak Power DES 02 * Xavier DESANDRE-NAVARRE / Frédéric PAGES / "Récits Du Sertão" Peak Power DES 03 / Le Grand Babyl / Texts by Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa / * Xavier DESANDRE-NAVARRE / Frédéric PAGES /" Cobra Norato " Grand Babyl Prod° GB 05 / Texts by Brazilian writer Raul Bopp. * Edouard FERLET 4tet / "L' écharpe d'iris" Melisse (France) * BRAINING STORM / JL Rassinfosse, F Alleman, JP Collard Neven & X DN (Fuga Libera) * HOPEN COLLECTIVE / "French Dub Connection" Echo Beach 022 (Germany). / Feat: Cyril Ateff, Jean Phi Dary, Noël Ekwabi, Pascal Mikaelian, Eddy Delaumenie, Glaucus Linx de Oliveira.

As a sideman

* Raphael Lemonnier "La Trova Project" *

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:"Lento" ACT Music *

:"Same Girl" ACT Music * Youn Sun NAH :"Voyage" ACT Music * Youn Sun NAH :"Memory Lane " Seoul records / Hub Music (Corea). * Niels Lan DOKY : "Haïtek Haïku" Universal / Emarcy 548 410–2 UN 900 / Guest and produced by Gino VANELLI / * Niels Lan DOKY : "Asian Sessions" Universal / Emarcy 546 656 2 / Feat : Paul Wertico, Beijing Symphonic Orchestra (from China), and Thanh Lam (Singer from Vietnam) / * Niels Lan DOKY : 4tet " Polygram / Verve 559 087-2 / Feat: Lars Danielsson, Jeff boudreaux / * DOKY BROTHERS 2 " Blue note records 7243 8564582 2 / Feat :

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Dianne Reeves Dianne Elizabeth Reeves (born October 23, 1956) is an American jazz singer, who has won five Grammy Awards for her albums. Early life and education Dianne Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan, into a musical family. Her father sang, her mothe ...

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/ Laurent CUGNY Big Band LUMIERE : "Golden Hair " Polygram / Emarcy 863 401 / * Gil EVANS / Laurent CUGNY Big Band LUMIERE :"The Complete Recordings" Emarcy 833 794 Recorded during the longest and the latest Gil EVANS tour in Europe in 1987 * Gil EVANS / Laurent CUGNY Big Band LUMIERE :" Rythm A Ning " Polygram Jazz / Emarcy 863 401 * Laurent CUGNY Big Band LUMIERE : " Sanatander" Polygram /Emarcy 843 266 2 Feat B. Lagrenne / * Laurent CUGNY Big Band LUMIERE : " Dromesko " Emarcy *

: "Lion of Africa" DVD / CD Globalmix ( London). Live at the Brabican. * Manu DIBANGO : "Mboa' Su" * Manu DIBANGO : "Kamer Feelin" JPS Prod° JPS 64 * Lars DANIELSSON : "Melange Bleu" ACT music. * Lars DANIELSSON : "Libera me" ACT music./ Feat: Dave Liebman, Nils Peter Molvaer * Lars DANIELSSON : "Northern Lights" recorded live in Leipzig, Germany./feat: Nils Peter Molvaer, Eyvind Aarset, Jan Bang, Roberto Di Gioia. * Rick MARGITZA : "Bohemia" Nocturne Prod° / Feat:Laurent De Wilde, Ricardo Del Fra, Baptiste Trotignon... * Laurent GARNIER : "It's Just Music" DVD live at the Salle Pleyel,/ Paris. * Caecillie NORBY : " Arabesque " ACT records * Caecillie NORBY : " Slow Fruit " CPH records * Caecillie NORBY : "London/Paris " Live, Copenhagen Records CPHREC 001 * Caecillie NORBY : "First Conversation" Universal * Caecillie NORBY : "Queen of Bad Excuses" Blue Note records./ Feat : J.Scofield, B.Hart, Lars Danielsson, Ulf Wakenius.... * Aldo ROMANO : "Origines" Dreyfuss Jazz * Jean-Pierre MAS : "(H)Ombre " / Feat

Claude Nougaro Claude Nougaro (, ; 9 September 1929 – 4 March 2004) was a French jazz singer and poet. Life and career Claude Nougaro was born on 9 September 1929 in Toulouse to a respected French opera singer, Pierre Nougaro, and a piano teacher, Liette ...

, Daniel Mille... * Jean-Pierre MAS : "Juste après" Cristal records * MAGIC MALIK : " HWI Project " Salam aleikoum / Warner 176542/9 * ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE JAZZ, (ONJ) dirigé par Denis BADAULT : " Bouquet Final " recorded live Label Bleu, LBLC 6571 * ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE JAZZ, (ONJ) dirigé par Denis BADAULT : " Monk / Mingus / Ellington " Label Bleu /LBLC 6562 * ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE JAZZ, (ONJ) dirigé par Denis BADAULT : " A Plus Tard " Label bleu LBLC 6554 * Tony COE, Xavier DESANDRE-NAVARRE, Scott ROBINSON TRIO : " Impressions of Schindler's List " 3361 BLACK / NEC : NACJ 1012

Projects with variety musicians

* Richard Gotainer : ''D'Amour et d'Orage'' (1993) *

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: ''Brian Boru'' (1995) *

: ''Mboa'Su'' (2000) ''Kamer Feeling'' (2003) ''Lion of Africa'' CD, DVD Live (2006) *

Michel Jonasz Michel Jonasz (born 21 January 1947 in Drancy, France) is a French composer-songwriter, singer and actor. His compositions include: ''La boîte de jazz'', ''Joueurs de blues'' and ''Les vacances au bord de la mer''. Born of Hungarian immigra ...

: ''Olympia 2000'' (2001) * Rita Mitsouko : "Systeme D" 1994

Live collaborations and recordings (non-exhaustive)

, Randy Brecker,

& Liberation Orchestra,

, Leszek Mozdzer,

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Markus Stockhausen Markus Stockhausen (born 2 May 1957) is a German trumpeter and composer. His recordings and performances have typically alternated between jazz and chamber or opera music, the latter often in collaboration with his father, composer Karlheinz St ...

, Christof Lauer,

Aldo Romano Aldo Romano (born 16 January 1941) is an Italian jazz drummer. He also founded a Rock and roll, rock group in 1971. Biography He was born in Belluno, Italy. Romano moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he was playing guitar and drums profe ...

Rick Margitza Rick Margitza (born October 24, 1961) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Biography Margitza's paternal grandfather, a Hungarian Gypsy violinist, taught him to play the violin at the age of four. His father also played violin with the Detro ...

, Baptiste Trottignon,

, Paolo Fresu, Orchestre National de Jazz ONJ,

Jacky Terrasson Jacky Terrasson (born November 27, 1965) is a French jazz pianist and composer. Background Terrasson's mother is African-American from Georgia, and his father is French. From his parents he heard classical music as a child. He began piano lesson ...

, Bugge Wesseltoft, Daniel Yvinnec,

, Nils Landgren, Laurent Cugny & Big Band Lumière,

, Jazz Baltica Ensemble, WDR Symphonic Orchestra,

, Tivoli Symphonic Orchestra,

, Victoria Tolstoï, Caecillie Norby, Gino Vanelli, Toots Thielmans,

, Cyril Atef,

, Nils Peter Molvaer, Jan Bang, Andy Emler,

Cheb Mami Mohamed Khelifati (; born 11 July 1966), better known by his stage name Cheb Mami (), is an Algerians, Algerian musician and singer-songwriter. He sings and speaks in Algerian Arabic and sometimes in Mashriqi Arabic, Eastern Arabic dialects or ...

, Safy Boutela, Baaziz, Dominic Miller, Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, Fabrice Alleman,

Juliette Gréco Juliette Gréco (; 7 February 1927 – 23 September 2020) was a French singer and actress. Her best known songs are "Paris Canaille" (1962, originally sung by Léo Ferré), "La Javanaise" (1963, written by Serge Gainsbourg for Gréco) and "Désh ...

, Okay Temiz, Prabhu Edouard, Bobo Stenson, Dave Liebman, Jean-Pierre Mas, Jon Balke, John Paricelli,

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, Hopen Collective,

Alain Jean-Marie Alain Jean-Marie (born 1945 in Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a French jazz pianist. Biography Jean-Marie taught himself to play piano from age eight. He played in dance orchestras in Guadeloupe (especially that of Robert Mavounzy), lived in Can ...

, Louis Winsberg, Terri Lyne Carrington, Pierre Boussaguet, Jacques Vidal, Pierrick Pedron, Paul Wertico, Palle Mikelborg, Leon Parker, Boy Gé Mendes, Teco Cardoso, François Moutin, Lelo Nazario, Dudu Trentin, Stephane Belmondo, Lionel Belmondo, Eric Legnini, Stephano Di Battista, Julia Migenes, Edouard Ferlet, Mads Winding, Alex Riel, Baba Maal, Omar Sosa, Nguyen Lé, Courtney Pine, London Gospel Choir,

, Crazy B, Jean-Phi Dary, Baco Mikaelian, Bireli Lagrène,

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Notes and references

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