François Grillot

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François Grillot (* 1955 in Burgundy ) is a French jazz musician ( double bass , bass guitar ) living in the United States .

Live and act

Grillot was initially involved in the fusion scene. He moved to New York City in 1980, where he has lived ever since, studied bass with Mickey Bass , Harvie S and Linda Mcnight, as well as harmony and jazz at City College . Since then he has worked in various band projects, including a. in the Ensemble Earth People (with Karen Borca , Daniel Carter , Sabir Mateen ) and with Ed Russell ( Visions of Order, Laws of Circonstance ). Since 2009 he has been part of the Bern Nix trio with drummer Jackson Krall , which expanded into a quartet with Matt Lavelle and rehearsed for a long time in the kitchen of Grillot, a recognized part of New York's Hell's Kitchen . Grillot currently leads (2015) the formation Contraband (with Anders Nilsson , Roy Campbell , Catherine Sikora , Daniel Levin and Jay Rosen ); an album of the same name was released in 2011 on Leo Records .

In the field of jazz he was involved in 19 recording sessions between 1980 and 2003. also with Matt Lavelle, Steve Swell , Giuseppi Logan , Chris Kelsey , Marc Edwards , Jason Kao Hwang , Bern Nix, Catherine Sikora and Han-earl Park .

Discographic notes

  • Earth People: Simple ... Isn't It? (Undivided Vision, 2002)
  • Matt Lavelle: Handling The Moment ( CIMP , 2003), with Ras Moshe , Lou Grassi
  • Steve Swell: Suite for Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers (CIMP, 2003), with Roy Campbell, Will Connell , Charles Burnham , Kevin Norton
  • Chris Kelsey: The Crookedest Straight Line, Vol. 1 & 2 (CIMP, 2006), with John Carlson, Jay Rosen
  • Catherine Sikora, Han-earl Park, François Grillot: Tracks in the Dirt (Clockwork Mercury Press, 2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief entry
  2. ↑ Handling the Moment (meeting) ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mattlavelle.org
  3. ^ Todd S. Jenkins: Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1 , 2004, p. 137
  4. ↑ Bern Nix: A History In Harmolodics
  5. ↑ Review of the Bern Nix Quartet: Negative Capability (AllAboutJazz)
  6. ↑ Brief portrait at All About Jazz
  7. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 24, 2015)
  8. ↑ Jason Weiss: Always in Trouble: An Oral History of ESP-Disk ', the Most Outrageous Record Label , 2012
  9. ↑ Review on Free Jazz Blog
personal data
SURNAME Grillot, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician (bass)
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgundy