{"id":18583,"date":"2026-04-14T14:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asmm.fr\/our_team\/jean-marie-ecay\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T00:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T23:49:53","slug":"jean-marie-ecay","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/www.asmm.fr\/en\/our_team\/jean-marie-ecay\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Marie Ecay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jean-Marie Ecay is a French guitarist whose distinctive touch has become his signature across jazz and pop. Since beginning his professional career in the 1980s, he has worked both as a sought-after sideman and as a bandleader. 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