Brunet (right) is France’s leading singer and trumpeter and he formed the Alain Brunet Trio with guitarist Luc Fenoli and drummer Jean-Louis Do more than a decade ago. His association with jazz goes back a long way. He began playing the trumpet at the age of ten and spent his years at the Sorbonne University in Paris studying musicology. “My kind of music can best be described as a bouquet of flowers, it allows each musician to be comfortable with his own sensibility without forgetting his roots,” he says. It came as no surprise when he became the first in his class to write a master’s thesis on jazz, inspired by legends like Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis.

But creating a fusion sound has always been on his mind as he formed and joined several bands through the seventies and the eighties including the Machi-oul de Manuel Villaroel in 1975.

The rest of the trio is equally experimental when it comes to music. “I first tried mixing musical forms when I visited the Reunion Islands near Mauritius, since it has people from different parts of the world”, says Fenoli. Do is a music director who has composed music for several television shows. Together they hope to enthrall Indian audiences with the various moods jazz can create and by blending Indian classical music, give it a new twist.