Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz Interview Series featuring Paris-based keyboardist, organist, composer, and producer Clément Simon, the creative force behind Baby Vortex.

We catch up with Clément to talk about Baby Vortex’s striking 2025 release Not What You Think, his evolving career in music, and his deep commitment to improvised and forward-thinking jazz. As an esteemed producer making waves across Europe, Clément plunges headfirst into exploratory sound, blending composition, spontaneity, and raw energy.

In this wide-ranging conversation, we dig into the Baby Vortex project, new recordings, live performances, the state of the world and music culture in 2026, and what it means to create art in uncertain times. If you’re into modern jazz, European jazz, improvised music, keyboards, organ, and experimental fusion, this one hits deep.

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Joe Dimino has been writing & creating in a variety of capacities since his college days at the University of Missouri-Kansas City somewhere around 1993. If you are keeping score, that would be about 29 years+. It all began at UMKCs University News as a Sports Writer & turned into a myriad of expressive avenues. Inventing poems, art, video & audio has always been in the proverbial cards.