Yannick Grimault: Sweet Screamin Jones

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Sweet Screamin' Jones

Sweet Screamin’ Jones is a crooner, a Jazz/Blues musician, an entertainer, that transforms the stage into a cross-cultural place; his selection of popular American songs, from Soul to Blues, Groove, Boogie, ... all shine their true essence at the hands of this charismatic entertainer's saxophone and his gravelly voice.
Hailing from Brittany, France, Sweet Screamin' Jones, whose real name is Yannick Grimault, begins his musical career at the age of 23; he studies musicology at the university of Rennes, Brittany and attends the Conservatoire of Rennes. He then joins the Celtic Music band “Gwenfol”, and the “Trompettes du Mozambique” in 1997; these fruitful collaborations lead him to perform more than 200 concerts, both in France and abroad.
From the year 2000, he becomes a member of two of Rennes music collectives: Ze Big Band and Heat Wave, led respectively by Fred Burgazzi and Philippe Dardelle. From then on, he gets acquainted with the pulses of Jazz and American music, thanks especially to many encounters with musicians of national and international reputation: Ricky Ford, Pierrick Pedron, Philippe Dardelle Fred Burgazzi Barbaro Teuntor Garcia, Roby "Supersax" Edwards, Daniel Jeand'heur...