by a jazz quintet which includes former collaborators Sophia Domancich, Sylvain Kassap and Simon Goubert. In 2015, Greaves began a partnership with Italian producer Max Marchini, founder of the Dark Companion label and in charge of the revived Manticore Records label, and singer Annie Barbazza. A solo performance in May 2015 was released as Piacenza, and in 2018 a new studio album, Life Size, a mixture of new and old songs (including a cover of Matching Mole's "God Song") with guests including Zeena Parkins, Jakko Jakszyk, and Annie Barbazza. As of 2022, a follow-up is in the works along with Bestiario d'Amore, set to words by Hélène Frappat. In early 2020, Greaves celebrated his 70th birthday with a Sunday night residency at La Gare Jazz in Paris, with a rotating line-up of many of his longtime collaborators. More recently, Les Rendez-Vous de Greaves has been the banner for regular gigs at Le Studio L'Accord Parfait, also in Paris. Greaves has performed (bass and occasional vocals) in Folly Bololey, a reinterpretation of Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom by the North Sea Radio Orchestra, premiered in 2014 at the Nuits de Fourvière festival, with Annie Barbazza as principal vocalist and other guests including William D. Drake (Cardiacs). A live performance in Piacenza in 2018 was released on Dark Companion the following year, and other performances followed including a live broadcast at the Maison de la Radio in Paris in December 2019. Zones, again for Radio France's Signature label, was released in October 2022. In it, Greaves sets texts by Guillaume Apollinaire, alongside fellow vocalists Jeanne Added and Himiko Paganotti, with guitarist Olivier Mellano, another regular collaborator, in the co-producer's chair. Greaves has taken part in various projects by Mellano over the past decade, notably Ici-Bas - Les Mélodies de Gabriel Fauré with Mellano's BAUM project and various other vocalists (performed in the Cour d'Honneur at the Avignon Festival in 2018), and H'art Songs, based on Moondog's eponymous 1978 set of songs for dual pianos, percussion and five vocalists. Private life John Greaves presently lives in Paris with artist Laura Buxton and their two daughters, Ailsa Grace and Millie. He also has a son, Ben, from his first marriage. Discography 1977 – Kew. Rhone. (Virgin) (with Peter Blegvad and Lisa Herman) 1982 – Accident (Europa) 1984 – Parrot Fashions (Europa) 1991 – La Petite Bouteille de Linge (La Lichère) 1991 – greaves, cunningham (Eva)