Grégoire Maret

Grégoire Maret (born May 13, 1975) is a jazz harmonica player.

Grégoire Maret
Grégoire Maret and Marcus Miller at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 2007
Background information
Born	May 13, 1975 Geneva, Switzerland
Origin	New York City
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician
Instruments	Harmonica
Labels	ObliqSound, Universal, Sunnyside
Associated acts	Marcus Miller, Gaïa, Federico González Peña, Andy Milne
Website	www.gregoiremaret.com

Background

Maret studied at Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, then The New School in New York City.[1] On March 13, 2012 Maret released his first album as a leader.[2] He has worked with Steve Coleman, Kurt Elling, Pat Metheny, Andy Milne, Meshell Ndegeocello, David Sanborn, Jacky Terrasson, and Cassandra Wilson.[1] In 2003 he was the subject of Swiss filmmaker Frédéric Baillif's documentary Sideman.[1]

Discography

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

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

References

1. Collar, Matt. "Grégoire Maret". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
2. Black, Brent (1 March 2012). "Bop-N-Jazz: Gregoire Maret / Gregoire Maret Eone 2012". www.criticaljazz.com. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2012.