Imagine John Coltrane playing with Rage Against The Machine, Amon Tobin remixing Pink Floyd and Billy Cobham jamming with Daft Punk…
OZMA is a supercharged quintet, creating music both adventurous and accessible that the group has been able to share through 8 dynamic albums. A key figure in modern French jazz, OZMA has been touring the world for over twenty years. With more than 600 concerts across 45 countries on four continents, the quintet champions bold music that blends rock energy, electronic textures, and the freedom of jazz.
Under the direction of drummer Stéphane Scharlé, the Strasbourg-founded group has built an engaging musical universe, exploring interdisciplinary dialogues and giving birth to numerous multidisciplinary creations that transcend stylistic boundaries. Their projects often include collaborations with artists from around the world and a strong sensitivity for visual music, with the creation of photo-concerts and film-concerts set to masterpieces of the seventh art.
For their newest adventure, the album The Day We Decided to Live at Night (2025), Stéphane Scharlé has brought new members to the team. Together with his long-time partner, bassist Édouard Séro-Guillaume, a fresh wave of young talent helped bring this intense record to life: Musina Ebobissé on saxophone, Martin Ferreyros on guitar, and a new addition to the instrumentation, Dan Jouravsky on keyboards, replacing the trombone.
This album, like each OZMA project, reflects a constant desire to push boundaries, explore new artistic territories, and build bridges between cultures and disciplines, offering a universal, vibrant, and resolutely contemporary narrative.
Founder, drummer and main composer of OZMA, Stéphane leads the band with boundless energy and imagination. His drumming blends the rock power and jazz freedom, while his compositions shape OZMA’s unique universe — both rebellious and poetic. With more than 20 years of international touring, he has built the group’s identity around friendship, risk-taking and constant reinvention.
https://www.instagram.com/stephane.scharle/
Co-founder of OZMA, Édouard brings a unique bass style, a sound as gentle as a lamb that can leap out of its cage and turn into a fierce beast. Our duo is above all a friendship and a musical bond forged over 20 years of adventures across the globe!
Born in Strasbourg and now based in Paris after studying at the Jazz Institut in Berlin, Musina is the leader of his own projects and was nominated for the Deutsche Jazz Preis 2021 in the category “Best Debut Album.” His latest record was released on the Jazzdor Series label in 2023. A true wizard of saxophone effects (listen to his solo project Blendreed), he adds a unique touch to OZMA’s new sound.
https://www.instagram.com/musinaebobisse
With a background in both classical music and jazz, Dan now defines himself as an electronic improviser. He designs and codes his own controllers and synthesizers, weaving them together to create sonic landscapes for theater. His mastery of electronic textures and his improvisational skills are a major contribution to the new OZMA.
https://www.instagram.com/dandandandandannnn
A gifted guitarist trained at the National Conservatory of Paris (under Riccardo del Fra), Martin is also a resident at La Gare, the Parisian club the whole of Europe envies us: packed jazz concerts every night, with an audience averaging 25 years old! Picture Wes Montgomery with a pedalboard…
https://www.instagram.com/ferreyros.martin
