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The Orchestra

One orchestra,
one era

Serpentine Orchestra revives the electrifying energy of the great jazz orchestras of the 1920s.
The full Serpentine Orchestra
Serpentine Orchestra
The big band

Ten musicians, one breath

Serpentine Orchestra is a ten-piece big band led by trumpeter Joë Santoni. Founded in Paris and driven by the new generation of French jazz, it revisits the abundant repertoire of the Roaring Twenties — swing, hot jazz and New Orleans music — in original arrangements.

Serpentine Orchestra
Musical direction
Joë Santoni

A Parisian trumpeter and specialist of pre-war jazz, founder of several bands (Rhythm Club, Pigalle Serenaders), he leads Serpentine Orchestra with a clear vision: to celebrate the golden age without ever slipping into pastiche.

Concerts & events

The big band suits the concert stage as much as your finest evenings: galas, private events, luxury brands and exceptional venues. The same complete line-up, the elegance of the Roaring Twenties. Get in touch →

The ensemble
Angela Strandberg
Trumpet & vocals
Swedish trumpeter and singer based in Paris, founder of the band Mama Shakers.
Pablo Burchard
Double bass
Garry Nayah
Guitar, banjo, violin & vocals
Guitarist, banjo player and singer, specialist in the swing of the 1920s-40s, from Armstrong to Django Reinhardt.
Rudolph Stengel
Trombone
Trombonist and arranger on the Paris jazz scene, at home in the swing of the 1920s-40s.
Prokhor Burlak
Saxophone & clarinet
Saxophonist born in Vladivostok and trained in Saint Petersburg, formerly with Russia's leading jazz orchestras before Paris.
Mathieu Meyer
Piano
Paris-born pianist of traditional jazz, conservatory-trained and a student of the legendary Barry Harris.
Pascal Mucci
Drums
A drummer on the Paris swing scene, he plays vintage drums in the Serpentine Orchestra and with Nico Duportal & His Rhythm Dudes.
Pepijn Mouwen
Saxophone & clarinet
Clarinettist and alto saxophonist, member of the septet The Fried Seven, winner of the Karel Van Eerd Music Award jury prize.
Philippe Lambrechts
Saxophone & clarinet
A Paris jazz clarinettist and tenor saxophonist, he performs with the Serpentine Orchestra and the Del Mar Orchestra.
The Setting

Residencies with taste

A distinctiveness owed as much to its music as to the places that have hosted it — Parisian addresses that share one requirement: elegance.

I

Serpent à Plume

Place des Vosges · Paris 3rd

Resident orchestra — Hot Jazz every Wednesday, in a private mansion hailed as “a club like no other in the world”.

II

Nonsense Montmartre

Hôtel La Bohème · Paris 18th

Carte blanche in a rococo setting inspired by 1920s jazz bars — a swing night with dinner by Julien Sebbag.

III

Le Bal Blomet

Europe's oldest jazz club · Paris 15th

Grand themed programmes in this historic cabaret of Roaring-Twenties Montparnasse.