Eric Barret

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Éric Barret (born May 5, 1959 in Le Havre ) is a French jazz musician ( soprano and tenor saxophone , composition).

Live and act

Barret is self-taught as a musician. Already in 1978 he played in the Paris jazz clubs with Chet Baker , Jean-Louis Chautemps , Pepper Adams and Slide Hampton . Then he belonged to the quartet of Alby Cullaz and in 1981 to the quartet of Charles Bellonzi. In 1982 Patrice Caratini brought him to his Onztet . The following year he was involved in the recording of an album ( Trapèze ) for the first time in the quartet of Jean-Pierre Mas , and then played in the large-format group Bob 13 by Antoine Hervé (album Tutti ). Together with Henri Texier and Aldo Romano , he founded a trio in 1985, whose album of the same name was awarded the Prix Boris Vian; he also appeared in the saxophone quartet with Chautemps, François Jeanneau and Philippe Maté . Jeanneau brought him into the first edition of the Orchester National de Jazz , to which he belonged again from 1997 under the direction of Didier Levallet .

Together with Marc Ducret , Hélène Labarrière and Peter Gritz , he founded a quartet under his own name in 1987, which was followed at the end of the 1990s by another quartet, New Shapes , to which Sophia Domancich , Riccardo Del Fra or Jean-Jacques Avenel and Simon Goubert belonged . He also played in a duo with Goubert. In addition, a trio with Serge Lazarevitch and Joël Allouche was formed . In 2004 Barret founded the septet My Favorite Songs with Airelle Besson , Pierre-Oliver Govin, Éric Löhrer, Benjamin Moussay, Eric Surménian and Joe Quitzke . He has also performed with musicians such as Roy Haynes , Freddie Hubbard , Johnny Griffin , Mal Waldron , Jeanne Lee , Steve Grossman , Enrico Pieranunzi , Daniel Humair , Kenny Wheeler and Alain Jean-Marie .

Barret composed and wrote some textbooks. Since 1992 he has been a professor at the Bagneux Conservatory ; at the Jazz Festival in Marciac he is the pedagogical director. He can also be heard on albums with the Orchester National de Jazz, with Murat Öztürk and with Jacques Pellen .

Discographic notes

  • Barret / Romano / Texier (Carlyne 1986)
  • Éric Barret Quartet (Carlyne 1989)
  • L'Échappé belle (ATB 01, 1992)
  • New Shapes (Charlotte 189 1999)
  • Barret / Goubert Linkage (Marge 1999)
  • My favorite songs 7tet (BlueMarge 2004)
  • Barret / Lazarevitch / Allouche Close Meeting (Cristal 2006)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 , p. 29
personal data
SURNAME Barret, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician (soprano and tenor saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Havre