Jannick Top

French bassist and cellist, composer, arranger, musical director and session musician. Born in Marseille on October 4, 1947. Top took academic music lessons at the end of the 1960s, studying piano and cello. At the age of 16 he won first prize for piano and first prize for cello. Following a proposition of a bassist friend to replace him for a session with a region’s leading orchestra, he started playing the electric bass. He had the idea of ​​tuning his bass from fifth to fifth, like a cell, and by doing so, he overturned the methodology, the practice and the sound of the instrument.