caption website associated_acts years_active alias name birth_date instrument background genre image article_title birth_name occupation
nicolas vatomanga -lsb- http://www.madajazz.com/index.php?pn=accueil&amp;l=fr madajazz.com -rsb- myriam rakoto frah , tony rabeson , mokhtar samba makeba , paco sery , regis gizavo , 1991 -- present nicolas vatomanga nicolas vatomanga 24 september 1975 saxophone , flute , flute sodina , piano non_vocal_instrumentalist jazz , classical , bebop , jazz fusion , ethno jazz nicolas vatomanga solo.jpg nicolas vatomanga
 nicolas vatomanga andrianaivo rakotovao musician , composer , bandleader
nicolas vatomanga

nicolas vatomanga andrianaivo rakotovao , known as nicolas vatomanga is a malagasy saxophonist , flutist , bandleader and composer .
his music combines elements of jazz , blues and traditional musics of madagascar , including : the hira gasy of the centre , the beko from the south and the salegy from the north of the great island .
he is also recognized as one of the heirs of the malagsy flute sodina tradition and of its last great master : rakoto frah -lrb- philibert rabezoza rakoto -rrb- .
nicolas vatomanga has played and/or recorded in europe , africa -lrb- senegal and madagascar -rrb- , as well as in the united states with : miriam makeba , rakoto frah , paco sery , eric le lann , regis gizavo , solorazaf , lionel loueke , mokhtar samba , tony rabeson , serge rahoerson , linley marthe , idrissa diop , hanitra ranaivo , silo andrianandraina and jaojoby eusèbe .
he was invited by joe zawinul to play at his concert at the parc floral paris 2002 , but he could not honour the invitation .
since 2004 , he has lived and performed in madagascar , where he created the `` vatomanga band '' which appeared for the first time in quartet form during the madajazzcar festival 2005 and gradually enlarged to a septet after 2010 .
in 2011 , the band took the name madajazz .
