JexPat

Album notes

JexPat brings together five musicians who have made the Geneva region their meeting place. The project takes its name from the experience of expatriate artists: different backgrounds converge in a shared musical language, shaped by original compositions and fresh approaches to the jazz repertoire.

Led by trumpeter Simone Trovato, the quintet pairs trumpet and tenor saxophone with piano, double bass and drums. Trovato’s compositions form the core of this recording, alongside an arrangement of Clifford Brown’s Joy Spring. The programme presents the ensemble through its own material while keeping an open conversation with the tradition from which it draws.

The group’s work has grown through concerts, jam sessions and public rehearsals in Geneva. These encounters make collaboration central to the project: the music develops through exchange, with space for each player’s perspective within a common ensemble sound. JexPat captures that collective identity in a programme of seven pieces, introducing a group whose shared home is both a city and a musical practice.