Jack Ada

French guitarist, composer, arranger and session musician, born 1958. Jack Ada began to play guitar in 1973, aged 15. He is one of the first French guitarists to approach the finger picking style, influenced by Marcel Dadi. In 1975, Jack Ada started a duet with Michel Haumont. Together, they went on the road, giving concerts and courses in France, England, Belgium, Switzerland, Turkey, Canada etc. From 1985, Jack will be increasingly solicited for session works. He has played on disc, and on stage with Véronique Rivière, Philippe Chatel, Jean Schulteiss, Vincent Absil, Marie-Josée Vilar, or Gilbert Laffaille, to name only his main collaborations. Jack also opens to other styles: his meeting with Djamel Allam, Kabyle singer, will lead to a tour in France, Algeria, Finland and Martinique; he has played regularly at famous country music festivals in France with the group Country Journal, and performed on stage the musical illustration of texts read by Claude Piéplu. He was also hired to play in musicals (e.g. Emilie Jolie) and to make arrangements for spectacles at the Olympia and the Porte Saint Martin Theater in Paris.