Grégoire Maret
Grégoire Maret (born May 13, 1975) is a jazz harmonica player.
Also recorded as Gregoire Maret
Grégoire Maret

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- Name
- Grégoire Maret
- Born
- 13 May 1975
- Birthplace
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Occupation
- Musician
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Fields
- harmonica
- Languages
- French
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Grégoire Maret (born May 13, 1975) is a jazz harmonica player.
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Grégoire Maret (born 1975) is a Swiss composer, harmonicist and musician. The composer was born in Geneva. Grégoire Maret is active in harmonica.
Genres include jazz. Languages used include French.
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Biography
Biography
Maret worked across jazz musician, composer, musician and harmonicist. The registers place that work in jazz. This article rests on 5 catalogued compositions, 6 issued recordings and 13 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Grégoire Maret • Landscape — yes • Born — 13 May 1975 • Birthplace — Geneva, Switzerland • Origin — New York City • Genre — Jazz • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Harmonica • Label — ObliqSound, Universal, Sunnyside • Associated Acts — Marcus Miller, Gaïa, Federico González Peña, Andy Milne • Website — www.gregoiremaret.com Grégoire Maret (born May 13, 1975) is a jazz harmonica player.
Background
Background
Maret studied at Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, then The New School in New York City. On March 13, 2012 Maret released his first album as a leader. He has worked with Steve Coleman, Kurt Elling, Pat Metheny, Andy Milne, Meshell Ndegeocello, David Sanborn, Jacky Terrasson, and Cassandra Wilson. In 2003 he was the subject of Swiss filmmaker Frédéric Baillif's documentary Sideman.
As leader or co-leader
As leader or co-leader
• Year — Album — Artist — Label • 2007 — Scenarios — Andy Milne & Grégoire Maret — ObliqSound • 2012 — Grégoire Maret — Grégoire Maret — eOne • 2016 — Wanted — Grégoire Maret — Sunnyside • 2020 — Americana — Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin, and Bill Frisell — ACT Music • 2024 — Ennio — Grégoire Marret, Romain Collin — ACT Music
As sideman or guest
As sideman or guest
• Album — Artist — Year • Holding Back the Years — Jimmy Scott — 1998 • New Age of Aquarius — Andy Milne's Cosmic Dapp Theory — 1999 • What It Is — Jacky Terrasson — 1999 • Inside — David Sanborn — 1999 • Mood Indigo — Jimmy Scott — 2000 • Over the Rainbow — Jimmy Scott — 2001 • The Simple Life — Leon Parker — 2001 • A Paris... — Jacky Terrasson — 2001 • The Ascension to Light — Steve Coleman and Five Elements — 2001 • Bar Talk — Jeff "Tain" Watts — 2002 • Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape — Meshell Ndegeocello — 2002 • And Friends — Veit Hübner — 2002 • Rock Island — Bethany Yarrow — 2003 • You've Never Seen Everything — Bruce Cockburn — 2003 • Glamoured — Cassandra Wilson — 2003 • Right Now Move — Charlie Hunter Quintet — 2003 • Y'all Just Don't Know — Dapp Theory — 2003 • All in That Sky — Gabriele Donati — 2003 • Moonglow — Jimmy Scott — 2003 • It Doesn't Matter — Lou Watson — 2003 • Crossing Jordan Soundtrack — Various artists — 2003 • Mystery to Me — Janek Gwizdala — 2004 • Someone to Tell — Ari Hest — 2004 • Costume — Brandon Ross — 2004 • Bebel Gilberto — Bebel Gilberto — 2004 • Lucidarium — Steve Coleman and Five Elements — 2004 • Tales of the Stuttering Mime — Eric Revis — 2004 • The Voice Within — Fabio Morgera — 2004 • Irreplaceable — George Benson — 2004 • Shapeshifter — Matthew Garrison — 2004 • Carnets de bord — Bernard Lavilliers — 2005 • El Hombre — Carlos "Patato" Valdes — 2005 • One Foot in the Swamp — John Ellis — 2005 • The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidel — Meshell Ndegeocello — 2005 • Silver Rain — Marcus Miller — 2005 • Remember Their Innocence — Onaje Allan Gumbs — 2005 • The Way Up — Pat Metheny Group — 2005 • Native Lands — Will Calhoun — 2005 • State of Mind — Raul Midón — 2005 • Thunderbird — Cassandra Wilson — 2006 • Huge in Japan — Dario Boente — 2006 • Side-by-Side — Francis Jacob — 2006 • Hugmars — Hugh Marsh — 2006 • Brazilian Dreamin' — Joe Beck Trio — 2006 • Virgin Forest — Lionel Loueke — 2006 • Who Let the Cats Out? — Mike Stern — 2006 • Nightmoves — Kurt Elling — 2007 • Be the True Revolution — Kyra Gaunt — 2007 • 2 — Nega — 2007 • The Movie — Clare & the Reasons — 2007 • Wolno — Marek Napiórkowski — 2007 • A Tribute to Joni Mitchell — Various artists — 2007 • Piano Man — Philippe Saisse — 2007 • Architect of the Silent Moment — Scott Colley — 2007 • Make Someone Happy — Sophie Milman — 2007 • Echo — Alyssa Graham — 2008 • Marcus — Marcus Miller — 2008 • Chasing Shadows — Tony Grey — 2008 • Far From Home — Beat Kaestli — 2009 • Freewheel — Stade — 2009 • In the Middle of It All — In the Middle of It All — 2009 • More to Say — Terri Lyne Carrington — 2009 • The Search Within — Sean Jones — 2009 • Songs in the Key of New York — Clare & Jeremy — 2009 • Triptych — Justin Vasquez — 2009 • The Ten Shades of Blues — Richard Bona — 2009 • Inner Dance — Fabrizio Sotti — 2010 • Push — Jacky Terrasson — 2010 • Puppet Mischief — John Ellis and Double-Wide — 2010 • Orchestre de Chambre Miniature, Vol. 1 — Olivier Manchon — 2010 • Haunted Love — Andrés Garcia & The Ghost — 2011 • Highest Praise — Manifest — 2011 • The Eleventh Hour — Johnathan Blake — 2012 • Blue, Vol. 1 — Jeff "Tain" Watts — 2015 • Blue, Vol. 2 — Jeff "Tain" Watts — 2016 • From This Place — Pat Metheny — 2020 • Embracing Dawn — Christian Sands — 2024 • Nueva Timba — Harold López-Nussa — 2025
Identity
Identity
Grégoire Maret is recorded with the occupation jazz musician. Recorded as composer, musician and harmonicist.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1975
Grégoire Maret born at Geneva.
Context
Primary material
Context
The circumstances in which Grégoire Maret stands. Established in Library of Congress under no00096333. Established in Discogs under 316508.
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1284617521, Americana (Zusammenstellung, Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin, Bill Frisell).
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
reference work
- “Grégoire Maret”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3116303: Grégoire Maret
General reference · Wikidata
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Notes from the source article
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References
Citations
References
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authority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 1284617521, Americana (Zusammenstellung, Grégoire Maret, Romain Collin, Bill Frisell).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Secondary witnessauthority record
General reference
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