François Carrier

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François Carrier (born June 5, 1961 in Chicoutimi , Québec ) is a Canadian musician ( soprano and alto saxophone ) and composer in the field of modern creative and improvised music .

Live and act

Carrier had been active in Vancouver since 1979; since 1982 he has been part of the Montreal jazz scene. Since 1990 he has worked in a trio with the drummer Michel Lambert and the bassist Pierre Côté. The album Intuition , which was nominated in 1998 by the Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque as “Jazz Album of the Year”, brought the trio international attention; on a European tour it also performed at the 1998 Montreux Jazz Festival . In the same year Carrier founded the Nouvel Ensemble de Musique Improvisée (NoEMI), which performed with Dewey Redman and Sonny Greenwich .

The album Compassion ( Naxos Jazz ), which was also created with his trio, received the Juno Award in 2001 for the best contemporary jazz album. In 2002 he performed with pianist Bobo Stenson at the Vancouver Jazz Festival and recorded an album with Uri Caine . In 2003 he recorded the album Traveling Lights ( Justin Time ) , accompanied by Paul Bley , Gary Peacock and Michel Lambert . Further productions followed and a. with Mat Maneri , Dewey Redman, Michel Donato , Ron Séguin and Véronique Dubois . In 2011 the trio album Inner Spire ( Leo ) was created in St. Petersburg with the drummer Michel Lambert and the Russian pianist Alexei Lapin .

Prizes and awards

In 2013, Carrier was voted best alto saxophonist in the Down Beat readers ' poll and in 2015 by the International Critic's Poll of the Internet platform “El Intruso” as best contemporary alto saxophonist.

Discographic notes

  • Trio François Carrier Poursuite (Amplitude 1994)
  • Trio François Carrier Intuition (Lost Chart, 1997)
  • François Carrier Trio + 1 Compassion (Naxos Jazz, 2000)
  • François Carrier Trio with Uri Caine All'Alba ( Justin Time Records , 2002)
  • François Carrier / Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Michel Lambert Traveling Lights (Justin Time, 2004)
  • François Carrier Trio Play ( 482 Music , 2004)
  • François Carrier Happening with Mat Maneri, Pierre Côté, Michel Lambert & Uwe Neumann ( Leo Records , 2006)
  • François Carrier / Dewey Redman / Michel Donato / Ron Séguin / Michel Lambert - Open Spaces (Spool, 2006)
  • François Carrier Quartet Noh (Ayler Records, 2006)
  • François Carrier, Michel Lambert Kathmandu ( FMR Records , 2007)
  • François Carrier / Michel Lambert / Jean-Jacques Avenel - Within (Leo Records, 2008)
  • François Carrier - The Digital Box - [7-CD-Box-Set] - (Ayler Records, 2008)
  • François Carrier / Michel Lambert Nada (Creative Sources, 2008)
  • Véronique Dubois / François Carrier - Being With (Leo, 2010)
  • François Carrier Trio + 1 Entrance 3 (Ayler Records, 2002, ed. 2011) with Bobo Stenson
  • François Carrier, Michel Lambert, Alexey Lapin: Inner Spire (Leo, 2011)
  • François Carrier, Michel Lambert, Alexey Lapin: All Out (FMR, 2011)
  • François Carrier, Michel Lambert, Alexey Lapin: In Motion (Leo, 2012)
  • François Carrier, Michel Lambert, Alexey Lapin: The Russian Concerts Volume 1 (FMR, 2014)
  • François Carrier. Michel Lambert, Rafał Mazur : Oneness (2017)
  • François Carrier / Michel Lambert / Alexey Lapin: Freedom is Space for the Spirit (2017)
  • François Carrier / Michel Lambert / Rafal Mazur: Beyond Dimensions (2018)
  • Elements (FMR, 2018)
  • Nirguna (2019), with Alexander Hawkins , John Edwards, Michel Lambert
  • François Carrier / Masayo Koketsu / Daisuke Fuwa / Takashi Itani: Japan Suite (NoBusiness, 2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Eyles, Francois Carrier Trio Live in Russia (2012) in All About Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Carrier, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicoutimi , Quebec , Canada