Diego Imbert

Born in Paris in 1966, Diego Imbert has developed a career as a French jazz musician characterized by his work on electric bass, double bass and, early on, violin. After moving from electric bass to study double bass in the mid-1990s, Imbert has worked across acoustic jazz, free jazz, gypsy swing and more urban compositional idioms, with playing sensitive to the lyricism of lines, collective dialogue and rhythmic nuance. His career has been built both as a sideman and as a leader, alongside musicians such as Didier Lockwood — with whom he played for nearly ten years — Biréli Lagrène in the Gipsy Project, as well as Archie Shepp, Richard Galliano, André Ceccarelli, Enrico Pieranunzi and Daniel Mille. Under his own name he launched the Diego Imbert Quartet in 2008 and released, among others, A l’ombre du saule pleureur (2009), Next Move (2011) and Colors (2015), before exploring other formats like the duo with Michel Perez on Double Entente (2013), then Triple Entente. In 2018 he released Tribute to Charlie Haden and Urban, two projects demonstrating the breadth of his range — from a lyrical jazz trio to a septet with funk and contemporary colors. Diego Imbert also works as an educator and composes for other stage contexts.