Didier Datcharry

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Didier Datcharry (* 1958 in Saint-Paul-lès-Dax ; † August 18, 2018 ) was a French jazz pianist of swing and mainstream jazz .

Live and act

Datcharry first played the accordion when he was ten , before switching to keyboard , then church organ and finally piano . In his main occupation he initially worked as a television and radio technician; he also played in the jazz bands of Jacky Bérécochéa, Antoine Gastinel, Dominique Burucoa and Marc Alibert. He then attended the École Normale de Musique de Paris and was a laureate of the Concours Internationaux de l'UFAM ( Union française des artistes musiciens ) and the Fondation Léopold-Bellan. He completed his studies with a diploma (piano and jazz ) and worked in the following years at the conservatory in Dax and at the music school of Saint-Paul-lès-Dax. In the course of his career he played with jazz musicians such as Guy Lafitte , Benny Waters , Maxim Saury , Bob Wilber , Daniel Huck , Paul Chéron , Guillaume Nouaux , Denis Leloup and Jérôme Etcheberry . In the jazz scene of the French southwest, he was a member of the big band Côte Sud , the Tuxedo Big Band de Toulouse , the septet by Paul Chéron and the trio by Guillaume Nouaux. From 2008 he also led his own piano trio (with Jean-Xavier Herman, double bass and Marie-Hélène Gastinel, drums). In the field of jazz he was involved in five recording sessions between 2010 and 2016.

Datcharry's musical role models included Monty Alexander , Erroll Garner , Oscar Peterson and Nat King Cole .

Discographic notes

  • Béré Quartet (Agorila, 1994), with Jacky Bérécochéa, Paul Chéron, Jean-Paul Gilles, Antoine Gastinel, Sylvia Alvarez
  • Rampage! : Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band of Toulouse, France, conducted by Paul Cheron ( Arbors Jazz , 2011)
  • Guillaume Nouaux & Tuxedo Big Band: Drumology (TBB, 2014)
  • Guillaume Nouaux Trio: Here Comes the Band (GN, 2016), with Jérôme Gatius (cl)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Didier Datcharry nous quince. Citizen Jazz, August 24, 2018, accessed August 24, 2018 (French).
  2. ^ A b Arnauld Bernard: Saint-Paul-lès-Dax (40): le musicien Didier Datcharry est décédé. Sud Ouest, August 21, 2018, accessed August 25, 2018 (French).
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 25, 2018)
  4. ^ Obituary at TSF Jazz on August 23, 2018 ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 25, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Datcharry, Didier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz pianist of swing and mainstream jazz
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Paul-lès-Dax
DATE OF DEATH 18th August 2018