Bernard Maury

Bernard Maury (born December 28, 1943 in Marmande , † July 31, 2005 in Caen ) was a French jazz pianist and arranger.

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Maury had piano lessons since childhood. He came to Paris in 1969 and took composition courses with Nadia Boulanger . At the same time he became a member of the Trois Mailletz group of saxophonist Michel de Villers . He later became a member of Michel Roques' quartet and performed with Johnny Griffin at the Chat qui pêche jazz club . In 1974 he went to Brazil, where he performed with various musicians and became musical director of the Teatro Glaucio Gil in Rio de Janeiro.

After his return to Paris in 1976, he founded a trio with the bassist Cesarius Alvim and the drummer Marcel Sabiani (later Tony Rabeson ), with whom he played at the Maison de la Radio and various jazz clubs, occasionally with guests such as the trumpeter Éric Le Lann and the saxophonist Eric Barret , appeared. At that time he also began to teach jazz improvisation and harmony.

As a piano duo with Warren Bernhardt , he gave a series of concerts in honor of Bill Evans . In the late 1980s he worked a. a. with the saxophonists Jean-Louis Chautemps , Sylvain Beuf and Bob Mover and the violinist Pierre Blanchard , formed a duo with the double bass player Riccardo Del Fra and played in a quintet with Lionel Belmondo , Stéphane Belmondo , Dominique Lemerle and Simon Goubert .

At the Festival de Ramatuelle 1996 he appeared with Toots Thielemans , at the Festival de Calvi 1997 with Michel Petrucciani , and at the Maison de la Radio he gave concerts with Michel Graillier and Alain Jean-Marie . On concert tours he performed a quartet composed by François Théberge with Jean-Philippe Viret and Simon Goubert . As an arranger he composed the symphonic orchestration of Parker With Strings, Homage To Bird (with Max Roach , Frank Morgan and the conductor Michel Legrand , 1989) and participated in René Urtreger's album Serena (1991).

As a music teacher, Maury taught jazz piano at the Berklee School of Music in Boston and gave master classes at numerous US and European universities. From 1994 he headed the jazz department at the municipal Conservatoire Nadia et Lili Boulanger in Paris. In 1996 he founded the Bill Evans Piano Academy

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SURNAME	Maury, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French jazz pianist, arranger and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marmande
DATE OF DEATH	July 31, 2005
Place of death	Caen