France has its own several important awards in jazz: Victoire de la Musique, Prix Django Reinhardt de L'Academie du Jazz and many other distinctions that are given to the most talented jazz musicians. Stephane Belmondo is one of those distinguished and renowned instrumentalists who maintain high standards on the French music stage. Stephane Belmondo's trumpet can be heard on more than two hundred albums; the musician paid great contributions to some of them .

The year 2015 is marked by the tribute that Belmondo pays to the emblematic trumpeter Chet Baker, on a recording filled with skillfulness and special feelings. The Love for Chet album contains some of Chet Baker's greatest works performed by Stephane Belmondo along with bass player Thomas Bramerie and guitarist Jesse van Ruller. In the '80s, this work was also performed by a trio, with Chet Baker playing the trumpet, Doug Rainey the guitar and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen the double bass. The musicians manage to evoke both the atmosphere of those past moments and the sound of the instruments, with the highlight on the trumpet, in a given moment of inspiration and maturity.

After earning the respect of the entire world of music and winning a Grammy for her album in 2011, one of the most inspired and distinguished women who play the drums, Terry Lyne Carrington gathers some of the most exquisite feminine voices in soul music on her second album, named Mosaic Project, in order to celebrate femininity while also paying a tribute to the influence of some musicians, such as Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, George Duke or Bill Withers.

'Love and Soul' means the eternal complementarity between sexes, it is not a feminist manifesto at all. Most of the compositions interpreted by these exceptional female voices are signed by men; the works are performed in the manner of soul music by jazz instrumentalists. A beautiful mosaic designed by some of the best musicians in the great musical America.