Oriane de Torcy, export manager for the Francis Dreyfus Music label, is the happy winner of the prize draw we organized during the latest Cannes music market. Created more than four decades ago by Francis Dreyfus, this label stays totally independent even though Sony Music France distributes it.

It manages the back catalog of top shots like Jean-Michel Jarre, Alan Stivell, Bernard Lavilliers or Christophe. However, it focuses on jazz with the label Dreyfus Jazz created in 1991. From classical references like Ella Fitzgerald or Chet Baker (the “Jazz Référence series” - 70 titles, over a million albums sold) to the huge Michel Petrucciani, we’ll also find today’s talents: Marcus Miller, Biréli Lagrène, Sylvain Luc, Franck Avitabile, Jean-Michel Pilc or Richard Galliano. They sport a flawless artistic quality, in graphics as much as in sound.

Furthermore, every Dreyfus edition involves the full commitment of the whole team. “Most of our artists are alive. They give concerts, record a new album about every 18 months, coming up with new concepts. Despite the crisis of the music industry, we keep signing new talents.”, says Oriane de Torcy. “When it comes to our back catalog, which includes the “Jazz Référence” collection, every recording is carefully remastered, the disturbances removed. We open the sound and spatialize it to power it up. The end result? For instance, it sounds like Billie Holiday attended a new recording session yesterday.”

This remarkable work is led by Francis Dreyfus and René Ameline of the Ferber studios. The artistic direction is shared between talents such as Francis Dreyfus, his daughter Chloé, and Claude Carrière, well-known among jazz enthusiasts. Dreyfus loves jazz so much they even dared editing “Jazz for Cats” and ”Jazz for Dogs”, obviously in a remastered edition.