Jean-Philippe Dary
Photo: Eric Garault
Jean-Philippe Dary is a keyboardist, singer, producer, arranger, and songwriter. Born in France with Guianese roots, he worked with African singers like Papa Wemba (opening the Peter Gabriel’s tour “US”), Touré Kunda, Omar Pene and Alpha Blondie.
He also worked on other projects and musical styles such as jazz (Paco Sery, Greg Osby, Brice Wassy, Hopen Collective, Pino Daniele), reggae (Sly and Robbie), pop and electronic music (Phoenix, Troublemakers).
During the last 20 years, he spent most of his time working with Tony Allen, his friend. They recorded together eight albums with artists like Jeff Mills, Damon Albarn, Ty, and Ernest Rangling.
He was the third member of the Tony Allen and Jeff Millsʼs project, as he worked on the album "Tomorrow Comes the Harvest" and performed with them on stage.
Jean-Philippe is working with Jeff Mills on “The Paradox,” a duo project and “Tomorrow Comes the Harvest,” a trio project.
He is also developing two projects for 2021 under his own name. The first one is a trio afro jazz whose first album has already been recorded by Al Schmitt and Steve Genewick at the Studio La Fabrique. The second is a solo project named “African Avant Garde,” in which Jean Philippe mixes African and traditional instruments with electronic modular synthesizers, in addition with a lot of keyboards.
