Bernard Lubat
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Bernard Lubat (born May 12, 1945 in Uzeste in Gascony ) is a French pianist of jazz and contemporary classical music. He is a multi-instrumentalist and singer. In addition to playing the piano and performing as a singer ( scat singing), he also plays (electronic) drums, percussion instruments, accordion, synthesizer and vibraphone.
Live and act
Lubat was born in a small town in the Gascognischen province of Bazadais 60 km from Bordeaux as the son of the trumpeter Alban Lubaz, whom he accompanied on the accordion from the age of 6 on dance events and attended conservatories in Bordeaux (from 1957) and Paris ( 1961 to 1963), which he graduated with a first prize in percussion. From 1965 he played in Jef Gilson's orchestra , where he made the acquaintance of musicians such as Michel Portal , Henri Texier and François Jeanneau . He accompanied chanson singers , worked in the studio, played as a vibraphonist with Martial Solal and Jean-Luc Ponty , as a drummer with Stan Getz and Eddy Louiss (including in the vocal jazz group Les Double Six founded by Mimi Perrin in 1959 , in which he appeared as a singer ).
Its spectrum is very extensive. He emerged as a free jazz musician and as an interpreter of modern classical music by Luciano Berio (as percussionist in “Laborintus II” with the Ensemble Musique Vivante, Harmonia Mundi 1987), Béla Bartók , Iannis Xenakis and Edgar Varèse . In interdisciplinary projects, Lubat worked with the fireworker Pierre-Alain Hubert, with whom he performed a "Pyrotechnic homage to the last 25 years of the 20th century". He accompanied the singer Claude Nougaro for several years and played a lot with Michel Portal and Henri Texier. In 1976 he presented a solo record in which he played a wide variety of instruments (including fog horns and bass guitar) and in which a link between “retrospective and utopia” became clear. Around the same time, the "Compagnie Lubat" was founded, which Ekkehard Jost rated as one of the "most spectacular groups on the French music scene". The line-up of the company fluctuated, initially around a core of Patrick Auzier and Jean-Louis Chautemps , later around Auzier and André Minvielle ; For individual projects, Lubat also brought in dancers, writers, Michel Portal, Jacques Di Donato and Beb Guérin ; In 1977 he even brought a jazz critic onto the stage to go about his work there, armed with a notepad and typewriter. On his CD Scatrap Jazzcogne (1994) he combines scat, rap and gas-cognic dances with fusion jazz .
In 1978, in his hometown of Uzeste, he founded a three-day music festival that not only includes jazz (including the forms of contemporary music theater developed from him, as the company cultivates), but also traditional music from Gascony and the tangos , pasodobles and other dances of the " Bal à papa ”includes.
Prizes and awards
In 1972 he received the Prix Django Reinhardt . In 2004 he received the SACEM Prize for Jazz; 2012 the Order of the Legion of Honor .
Web links
- Biography and interview, French
- Bernard Lubat at Allmusic (English)
- Bernard Lubat at Discogs (English)
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lubat, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uzeste |