Pierre-François Blanchard

French pianist Pierre-François Blanchard emerged in the early 2010s with boNObo-trio and the quartet Azure and, from 2012, accompanied Pierre Barouh until the end of the singer’s career. With Marion Rampal he founded the label Les Rivières Souterraines and recorded Le Secret, with Archie Shepp and Raúl Barboza as guests. A frequent partner of Shepp and Raphaël Imbert, he released #puzzled in 2024, a duo with clarinetist Thomas Savy.