Laurent Payfert

Laurent Payfert is born in Luxembourg in 1970. He got a master in jazz double bass at the national Conservatory of Metz (2000). He started to study trupet at the age of 9. At 11, he studied at the conservatory of Metz. Il started electric bass at 14 and double ass at 24 as an autodidact. He discovered jazz at NJP (Nancy), at “caveau des Trinitaires” in Metz and started to study with Loris Binot and Joseph Ramacci.

He met Ricardo Del Fra (master class), Yves Torschinsky (cours), Hein Van De Geyn (stage) et Georges Paczynski,and started to build his jazz sound. He discovered fabulous double bass players like Barre Philips, Mark Dresser, Peter Kowald and Mark Hélias who brought him new musical persepctives.

Laurent Payfert played with: Michel Altmayer, Noël Akchoté, Alexandre Ambroziak, Roby Arend, Christophe Astolfi, Maxime Bender, Loris Binot, Raoul Binot, Laurent Bocchetti, Jérôme Bourdellon, Eugène Bozzetti, Arnaud Campredon, Philippe Champion, Michel Ciccone, Pierre Cocq-Amann, Sylvain Courtney, Renaud Crols, Christian Didelot, Boris Dinev, André Dziezuk, Jean-Marc Folz, Paul Fox, Rémi Fox, Nicolas Fox, Romain Frati, Dominique Gatto, Laurent Gianez, Roby Glod, Valérie Graschaire, Rocky Gresset, Ernie Hammes, Patrick Hartert, Mariette Hélou, Franck Hemmerlé, Jeff Herr, Christophe Imbs, Peter Kowald, Nicolas Lelièvre, Steve Lacy, Greg Lamy, Ninh Lê Quan, René Leborgne, Sacha Ley, Marcel Lin, Jean- Pierre Sauret, Marc Mangen, Mathieu Marie, Louis-Michel Marion, Benoit Martiny, Marc Mergen, Johannes Müller, Mathias Neiss, Pascal Nicol, Patrick Odasso, Murat Öztürk, Luciano Pagliarini, Claude Pauly, Julien Petit, Peter Perfido, Damien Prud’homme, Sven Porkaska, Eric Ragazzini, Joseph Ramacci, Francesco Rees, Noé Reinhardt, Michel Reis, Jean-Marc Robin, Sergio Rodrigues, Mathieu Roffé, Edouard Romano, Christophe Sabbioni, Claude Schaus, Jef Sicard, Benoit Signorini, Benoit Stasiaczyk, Oliver Strauch, James Szura, Christian Taïoni, Assif Tsahar, Daniel Visani, Gilles Wagner, Paul Wiltgen, Matcho Winterstein. He has played at: Musique Action (Vandoeuvre), NPAI(Parthenay), Nancy Jazz Pulsations, Gaume festival (Rossignol, Belgique), Jazz action (Charleville-Mézières), les Trinitaires (Metz), le Cats (Orléans), Panonica (Nantes), Vauban (Brest), Aprem Jazz (Quimper),Leman Jazz (Divonne les bains), Centre des arts pluriels (Ettelbruck, Luxembourg), V.O.(Lausane), Jazz à Spy (Belgique), le Travers(Bruxelles), Ghangzhou (Chine)…