Charlie Haden said :
"She impressed me immensely with her talent, musicality, proficiency ans her dedication to her art form. Her distinct style and sound make her unique."
Anne Paceo is leading an exceptionnal carrier. At 29 years old she has played in 35 different countries around the world, as leader of her own band «triphase» and as sidewoman with the cream of musicians since her 17 years old : Melissa Laveaux, Rhoda Scott, Michel Legrand, Rick Margitza, Houston Person, China Moses, Andy Sheppard, Christian Escoudé, Yaron Herman, Dan Tepfer...
In the greatest clubs and festivals, such as Blue Note Tokyo (Japan), Jazz à Vienne (France), Zenith de Paris, Taipei International Jazz Festival (Taiwan), Festival Django Reinhardt (France), Midem (France), Abidjan International Jazz Festival (ivory Coast), Traumzeit festival (Germany), Jazzahead (Germany), Paris Jazz Festival (France), Jazz en Rafales (Canada) ...
She has released 3 album as a leader on laborie records. With her bands she has tour in many countries including Chile, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Algeria, Portugal, Taiwan, ...
The drummer received the award «Victoire du Jazz, révélation instrumentale» in 2011, and «Django d’Or» in 2009 category “young talent”, and was selected for being the drummer of the European Jazz Orchestra 2010.
She is invited all around the world to play her music with great musicians and band, such as Norrbotten Big Band (Sweden), Myanmar meets Europe ( Germany, Italy, Myanmar), Mike Del Ferro 5tet (Norway), George Kontrafouris (Grèce), Pernal-Smolinski 5tet (Poland)....
in 2006 and 2007 she had a monthly carte blanche at the prestigious Paris jazz club, "le Duc des Lombards" in Paris . She has invited the cream of French and international jazz scene including Henri Texier, Rhoda Scott, Julien Lourau and Rick Margitza.
In 2007 she won the 1st prize as soloist at "Sunside new talent Trophees".
She also won the "Young talent prize" at the Montauban festival, the "1st group prize" in the elimination contest “L’esprit jazz” and she has been chosen to play in New York with the CNSMDP for the close of the annual IAJE conference in the set preceding Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra.
Anne Paceo started playing the drums when she was 9. Born in 1984, she took her first steps in jazz at the age of 12 at the Children for Jazz festival at Barcelonnette where she took part in the master classes of Dianne Reeves, Kenny Garrett and Ravi Coltrane.
In 2000 she studied under the direction of Sunny Murray for 1 years and then studied with Andrea Michelutti.
In 2004 she met the guitarist Christian Escoudé who invited her to join his Progressive sextet together with Marcel Azzola, Jean-Marc Jaffet, Jean-Baptiste Laya and Stéphane Guillaume. Subsequently she joined his trio and his quartet together with Geraldine Laurent and Florent Gac.
In 2005 she entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and studied there with Dre Pallemaerts, Glenn Ferris, Hervé Sellin, Riccardo Del Fra, François Théberge and finished it with "mention très bien".
In 2006 she met the organist Rhoda Scott, known as “the bare-foot lady”, and they have played together in different musical projects since.
During 2007 she was regularly invited by Alain Jean-Marie to play in his quartet together with Guillaume Naturel and Darryl Hall.
She was also granted her 1st annual residence at the Duc des Lombards where she invited Pierre De Bethmann, Rick Margitza, Gilles Naturel, Emile Parisien and Yaron Herman. Her concerts have been broadcast by France Musiques in Claude Carriere and Jean Delmas’ program "The Jazz Club".
Over the past years we have been able to hear Anne play in the company of Rick Margitza, Rhoda Scott, China Moses, Andy Sheppard, Yaron Herman, Christian Escoudé, Joe Martin, Darryl Hall, Giovanni Mirabassi, Riccardo Del Fra, Laurent Dehors, Marcel Azzola, Stéphane Guillaume, Nelson Veras, Mederic Collignon, Sylvain Beuf, Henri Texier, Stéphane Kérécki, Alain Jean-Marie, Thomas Savy, Geraldine Laurent, Andy Emier, David Reinhardt, Eric Le Lann...