Members: Yuko Oshima, Deborah Walker, Matthias Spillmann, Joachim Badenhorst, Dave Gisler, Silvio Cadotsch, Silvan Jeger

The Notebook Large Ensemble is an international tentet reuniting Belgian, Italian, Japanese, Swiss and French creative musicians and was created by French-Japanese violist and improviser Frantz Loriot, around his compositions. These last were arranged by Swiss arranger and composer Manuel Perovic.
The music of this ensemble is a true amalgam of written parts and improvisation, by all means within the jazz vocabulary, but also reaching into free improvisation; leaving room for spontaneous happenings within the arrangements was one of the major aims of this project. The style of the music itself functions only as a carrier, therefore switching effortlessly between jazz, pop and even sometimes classical music. To quote Iannis Xenakis in response to the barrier of style: «it makes no sense!»