Sébastien Joulie started playing guitar at the age of 12, first fascinated by rock and blues. His curiosity and encounters in Vichy - the city where he grew up- made he fell in love with jazz. After studying English he moved to Lyon where he began studying music. Then he entered the Chambéry Conservatory where he studied alongside the trumpeter arranger Pierre Drevet and the pianist Guillaume de Chassy.

He obtained his DEM Jazz in June 2001 and recorded his first album “REG” with the band Talkin 'About of which he was one of the founding members. He then began to perform in various groups with renowned musicians such as François Chassagnite, Pierre Drevet, Éric Prost. He participated with the group Talkin 'About in 2002 at the jazz Springboard of Paris la Défense.

He moved to New York City from September 2002 to June 2003 where he joined the Jazz Master degree program at New School University. He notably studied with Peter Bernstein, Reggie Workman, Charles Tolliver, rubbed shoulders with musicians such as Robert Glasper, or Marcus Strickland. This New York experience will have a profound influence both artistically and in terms of the transmission of jazz music in general.

Back in France, concerts in various clubs and festivals in France at the head of the Talkin 'About: Caen jazz truck, Foix jazz festival, Jazz en Tête Clermont-Ferrand, Bonneville Jazz Festival, Maison du be- bop in Nice, and Crescent Jazz club Mâcon.

He joined the Polycarpe Collective alongside David Bressat with whom he participated in the dissemination of jazz in Lyon and in particular in the creation of “Périscope”, a major player in the current music in the region.
 
Talkin 'About "Connections" second album released in 2005. Guitarist, composer, arranger in various groups: including “Jazz dans le Ravin”, re-reading of the early hours of Gainsbourg, Le Boogaloo Quintet. His own trio was born with Florent Nisse on double bass and Charles Clayette on drums. Recording of the album, "The Lighthouse" (2010). He co-leads the Third Roam trio with Julien Bertrand.
 
In 2013 he invited the American saxophonist Walter Smith III to join him for his latest project the “Sebastien Joulie Group”. At the end of a French tour they record in quartet the album "Green Waves" (released in the summer of 2014) and thus allows its leader to sign with the prestigious label Fresh Sound New talent.
 
Since 2015 he has participated in the bassist François-Regis Gallix nonet “Les Permutants”. In 2017 he fulfilled his old dream of mixing literature and jazz by creating "Willy Play Don't Try," a show of music and poetry around the texts of the great writer Charles Bukowski.

Recording and release of his second album “Resilience” also on Fresh Sound New Talent, we find Pierre de Bethmann on piano, François-Regis Gallix on double bass and Charles Clayette on drums. Since 2017 the Resilience project has performed on various stages, festivals in France and Switzerland. That year he created the Links Quartet with the Parisian singer trumpeter Jean Manuel Miquel. The quartet mixes original compositions and modern reinterpretations from Chet Baker's repertoire.

In 2019 he co-founded the group Styx with the young and gifted trumpeter Achille Alvarado, Thomas Belin on double bass, Benoit Thévenot on keyboards and Zacchary Leblond on drums. His repertory played compositions of the trumpeter.

End of 2020 he participates in the recording of the Thomas Belin Quartet album "Sounds 'N' Hound" released in March 2021. Also in the recording of Sebastien Joulie Group's third Fresh Sound New Talent CD "Split Feelings" featuring the same line-up than "Resilience" except for the inclusion of pianist-keyboardist Etienne Deconfin.

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