Eddy Louiss
Eddy Louiss (born May 2, 1941 in Paris as Édouard Louise ; † June 30, 2015 in Poitiers , Poitou-Charentes ) was a French jazz pianist and organist. With a sure instinct he was able to keep rhythmic tension arcs in his organ playing even over long note values.
Live and act
Eddy Louiss comes from a musical family: his mother, a pianist, introduced him to classical music, his father, a trumpeter from Martinique , introduced him to the music of the Caribbean and jazz. He learned to play the trumpet and piano through his parents and played in his father's band as a teenager, then in a teenage band. He studied at the Paris Conservatory and also played in various Paris jazz clubs in the 1960s; as a singer he was (alongside Mimi Perrin , Roger Guérin , Ward Swingle and Christiane Legrand ) until 1963 a member of the group Double Six , which he accompanied on the organ for the first time on a tour of Canada.
In the mid-1960s, Louiss performed as an organist with Johnny Griffin , Art Taylor , Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz and also worked as a studio musician. In the late 1960s he was part of the Kenny Clarke trio alongside Barney Kessel . In 1970 he gave concerts in Japan with Albert Mangelsdorff and John Surman . He also worked with Jean-Claude Naude and Stéphane Grappelli and recorded the album Dynasty (1971), which was also unusual in terms of repertoire , with Stan Getz, guitarist René Thomas and drummer Bernard Lubat . After two years of study in the Ivory Coast and almost four years of concert abstinence, he gave another concert in Paris in December 1979. In the 1980s he toured Europe with his own big band Multicolor Feeling . In the mid-1990s he worked in a duo with Michel Petrucciani ; In 2001 he played the album Face to Face with Richard Galliano .
Prizes and awards
In 1964 he received the Prix Django Reinhardt . 1968 and 1971 to 1974 he was named in the critical poll of the Down Beat as the organist whose talent should be noted more; In 1971/72, 1974 and 1980 the readers of the international magazine Jazz Forum voted him the best European organist.
Discography (selection)
- Trio HLP with Daniel Humair and Jean-Luc Ponty , 1966
- My Kind of Sabi with John Surman, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Daniel Humair, 1970
- Orgue with Kenny Clarke , Jimmy Gourley , Guy Pedersen , 1971 (new edition as Bohemia after Dark by Emarcy)
- Orgue, Vol. 2 , 1972
- Sang mêlé , 1987
- Eddy Louiss / Michel Petrucciani [live] , 1994
- Conference de presse with Michel Petrucciani, 1994
- Conference de presse, Vol. 2 , 1995
- Floméla with Marc Bertaux , Tony Bonfils , Steve Ferrone , Bob Garcia , Jo Maka , Luigi Trussardi , Jean-Louis Viale , 1996
- Eddy Louiss Trio with Kenny Clarke, René Thomas, 1997
- Louissiana , 2000
- Multicolor Feeling Fanfare , 2000
- WéBé , 2000
- Récit proche with Xavier Cobo , Jean Marie Ecay , Paco Séry , 2001
- Face to Face with Richard Galliano, 2002
- Ô Toulouse ... Homage to Claude , 2006
Lexigraphic entries
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
Web links
- Eddy Louiss at Allmusic (English)
- Eddy Louiss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Louiss, Eddy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Louise, Édouard (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz pianist and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 2015 |
| Place of death | Poitiers , Poitou-Charentes , France |