Édouard Ferlet

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Édouard Ferlet (born January 21, 1971 in Paris ) is a French jazz pianist .

Édouard Ferlet in 2016

Life

Ferlet started playing classical piano at the age of 7 , learned the basics of jazz music in a small band before he was a teenager and from then on had the goal of becoming a musician. His musical role models were Chick Corea , Herbie Hancock , Keith Jarrett , Miles Davis , Bill Evans and Ahmad Jamal . At the age of 16, he took a summer course at Berklee College of Music . After leaving school, he returned to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied classical music and jazz, earned a degree in jazz composition and won the Berklee Jazz Performance Award .

Ferlet returned to France and released his first albums in the 1990s with Simon Spang-Hanssen , Claus Stötter , Christophe Monniot and other jazz musicians. In 1999 he founded a jazz trio with the double bass player Jean-Philippe Viret and the drummer Antoine Banville ; by 2006 the trio, led by Viret, released four albums. With a different line-up - Fabrice Moreau replaced Banville in 2008 - the trio won a prize from Les Victoires du Jazz in 2011 .

In 2004 Ferlet released his first solo album ("Par tous les temps"). In the following years, however, he also worked in various musical fields together with other musicians, such as Geoffrey Oryema and Mark Murphy, and performed successfully on the international stage. In 2012 he released the album Think Bach , in which he was inspired by pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach . Since then he has been concerned with the fusion of baroque music with jazz, which is reflected, among other things, in the cooperation with the harpsichord player Violaine Cochard . He also recorded the album Aïrés (2017) with Airelle Besson and Stéphane Kerecki .

Discography (selection)

  • 1997: Escale
  • 1999: Zazimut
  • 2001: Jean-Philippe Viret Trio: Considérations
  • 2002: Jean-Philippe Viret Trio: Etant donnés
  • 2004: Jean-Philippe Viret Trio: Autrement dit
  • 2004: Par tous les temps
  • 2006: Plumes
  • 2006: Jean-Philippe Viret Trio: L'indicible
  • 2006: Jean-Philippe Viret Trio: DVD Trio
  • 2007: L'écharpe d'iris
  • 2008: Jean-Philippe Viret Trio: Le temps qu'il faut
  • 2010: Jean-Philippe Viret Trio: Pour
  • 2010: Filigree
  • 2012: Think Bach
  • 2015: Jean-Philippe Viret Trio: L'ineffable
  • 2015: Édouard Ferlet / Violaine Cochard: Plucked Unplucked
  • 2016: Yves Rousseau : Wanderer
  • 2017: Think Bach Op.2
  • 2017: Édouard Ferlet / Airelle Besson / Stéphane Kerecki: Aïrés

Web pages

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ édouard ferlet on ferlet.com (French)
  2. ↑ édouard ferlet on ferlet.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Ferlet, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris