A jazz pianist and musicologist, Isabelle Leymarie has taught at several American universities including Cooper Union, Boricua College, Livingston College's Jazz Department, The New School, and Yale, as well as at several European music schools and conservatories. She has performed in Europe, the United States, Japan, India, and Latin America and given lectures and masterclasses on jazz and Latin jazz. She has collaborated to numerous magazines and reviews as well as to the Nouveau Dictionnaire du Jazz and other collective books, produced radio programs on jazz, and directed documentary films on music, including the award-winning Machito: A Latin Jazz Legacy. She is the author of a dozen books, published in several languages. Her book Cuba - La Musique cubaine was awarded the French Prix des Muses.