Jean-marie Corrois, drummer.

Jean-marie started his career in the city of Tours (France) where he performed with the funk African band “Trans African Express” touring in the south of France for the national radio station “Radio Monte Carlo”.  Later he joined the Brazilian band Saravah and played all over the country.

In 1985, he moved to Paris to attend the jazz school CIM where he met and performed with jazz musicians. In the same year he joined the compositors Claire Laronde and Nicolas Brasart for three years of concerts in jazz clubs and festivals, meanwhile, he was very active in Paris musical scene as a drummer, performing TV showcases for national artists and recording sessions for singers and instrumentalists.

For the last four years of his career, in France, he was the show band drummer for the singer Ilene Barnes and working for Disneyland Paris at the New York and New Port Hotels.

In 2000, he relocated the United States, joining the Carnival Cruise Ship Show Band as the Big Band and Production Band’s drummer.

In 2001, he started to work in South Florida for Bobby Raminez’s Latin-Jazz band, multiplying private and corporate performances as well as the Moca Jazz Festival and the Fort Lauderdale Jazz festival. For 4 years he remained fully booked as a reliable drummer covering a wide range of styles all over Florida.

In 2004, invited by a Boston jazz musician he moved to New England for a new beginning as a creative musician on the North East Coast.

Achieving successful performances with local musicians, mostly Berklee faculty members, also with the Brazilian band “Maluca” and the “Soul Ambition” band at clubs like Ryles, Johnny Ds to name a few, as well as private and corporate gigs, he finally decided to start his own quartet and went to a recording studio in October 2008 with three of the finest musicians on the East Coast to achieve a CD that is having already great critics in the United States and Europe.

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Jean-marie Corrois quartet is composed of:

Bill Vint, tenor saxophonist, Tucson, Arizona, began playing with jazz, blues and latin bands in local nightclubs. A move to Boston followed, attending Berklee College of Music where he studied woodwinds with Bill Pierce and Joe Viola. He was in ensembles including Herb Pomeroy’s Concert Jazz Orchestra and the Thelonious Monk Ensemble. After graduating Summa Cum Laude in 1996, Bill played in the house band aboard the Odyssey. Bill has performed in bands backing up such artists as Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Ojays, Bernadette Peters, Josh Groban, John Mayer and Bobby Caldwell, as well as, instrumental jazz artists Joe Zawinul, Toshiko Akiyoshi, John Abercrombie, Steve Marcus, Bobby Shew and John Faddis. He participated in a recording project featuring guitarist Mike Stern. Bill has toured with Artie Shaw, Jimmy Dorsey, Harry James Orchestras and performed with various groups at the Montreux, Nice, Monterey and North Sea Jazz Festivals. Currently Bill is a member of Stardust, one of New England's top function bands and teaches woodwinds at Brown University and in the Milton public schools.

Keala Kaumeheiwa, bassist, has performed with Jimmy Heath, Jackie McLean, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, T.S. Monk, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Watson, Harry "Sweets" Edison, and James Moody as part of the first graduating class of the Thelonious Monk Institute. Currently, he is teaching Jazz Combo Ensembles at MIT, and freelancing around Boston, frequently performing at Sculler's Jazz Club, Ryles, Wally's Jazz Cafe and the Regattabar.

Gilson Schachnik, pianist, studied with Hilton "Gogo" Valente and Antonio Bezzan, playing at nightclubs in Sao Paulo. He toured throughout Brazil with artists Patricia Marx and Rosa Maria. In 1990, Gilson won a scholarship to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he graduated with a diploma in jazz composition. Gilson has played or recorded with Claudio Roditti, Bill Pierce, Romero Lubambo, Yoron Israel, Jerry Bergonzi, Luciana Souza, Mick Goodrick, John Lockwood, Paulo Braga, Peri Ribeiro, Antonio Sanchez, Miguel Zenon and Cafe. Gilson studied with Danilo Perez, Charlie Banacos, drummer Antonio Sanchez, saxophonist Miguel Zenon and bassist Fernando Huergo among others. Gilson is Associate Professor in the Ear Training Department at Berklee College of Music.