François Jeanneau

François Jeanneau (* 15. June 1935 in Paris ) is a French jazz - saxophonist and - flutist and composer .

Life

Jeanneau was René Leroy's flute student ; he learned to play the saxophone autodidactically. In 1960 his professional career began with an engagement at Club Saint Germain , which he describes as his jazz school and where he performed with musicians such as Bud Powell , Kenny Clarke , Oscar Pettiford , Don Byas , Eric Dolphy , Art Taylor and Freddie Hubbard .

Jeanneau first came into contact with free jazz in Jef Gilson's Big Band (1962/63) and especially in the sextet of François Tusques . He worked with several private groups, including a quartet with Michel Graillier , Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano and the big band Pandemonium , was a member of the trio Humair -Jeanneau- Texier and founded with Jean-Louis Chautemps , Jacques Di Donato and Philippe Maté a saxophone quartet.

In 1986 Jeanneau became the first director of the Orchester National de Jazz . From 1987 to 1991 he worked at the Réunion Conservatory , where he set up a jazz department and the Center d'Informatique Musicale . From 1991 to 2000 he was the first head of the jazz and improvised music department at the Conservatoire de Paris , at the same time professor at the Université Paris VIII . He was also a co-founder and from 1992 to 1999 a member of La Scène et Marnaise de Création Musicale and the POM orchestra.

In 1999 he met Walter Thompson , the founder of sound painting , and became a member of the Societé des Soundpainters . From 2000 to 2002 he was co-director of the Orchester National de Jazz alongside Paolo Damiani . Also in 2000 he founded the Orchester de jazz Europe-Afrique . Since 2005 he has been the head of Spoumj.

Jeanneau was appointed Chevalier des Artes es Lettres and officer of the Ordre national du Mérite and won the Prix ​​Boris Vian (1976), the Grand Prix du Disque (1978), the Grand Prix National de la Musique (1991) and the Grand Prix de la SACEM (2001) awarded. 1980 was awarded the Prix ​​Django Reinhardt , but he refused to accept it. In addition to pianist François Tusques, trumpeter Bernard Vitet , Michel Portal , bassist Beb Guérin and the musicians of the ARFI collective, he is considered a pioneer of free jazz in France.

In 2010 he went with Uli Lenz on behalf of the Alliance française and the Goethe Institute as musical ambassador to India and gave concerts there.

Discography (selection)

• Un Bien Curieuse Planète , 1975
• Techniques Douces , 1976
• Ephémère , 1978
• Paris Jazz Quartet , 1979
• Humair-Jeanneau-Texier , 1979
• Solos Solo Plus , 1981
• Double-Messieurs (Le Quatuor des saxophones), 1981
• Mad Sax II (Le Quatuor des saxophones), 1982
• Terraines Vagues (Pandémonium), 1983
• L'Orchestre National de Jazz 1986 , 1986
• Jazz Stage Berlin (Orchester National de Jazz), 1986
• Pandémonium , 1988
• Taxiway , 1989
• Mixtures: Music for Media , 1989
• Update 3.3 (Trio Humair-Jeanneau-Texier), 1990
• Recontre , 1991
• Maloya Transit, le Quartet + le Trio Tambour , 1992
• Tribute to Mingus , 1992
• A Love Affair in Cermont-Ferrand , 1993
• Chaude Image , 1995
• Les Allumés du Jazz , 1996
• Le POM , 1997
• Alice , 1997
• Estremadure (Le POM), 1999
• Connection , 1999
• FrameWork , 2000
• Charméditerranéen (Orchester National de Jazz), 2001-02
• Eleven , 2002
• Paf Paf with Victor Komenkov , 2003
• Médéo (Youth Almaty Jazz Band), 2003
• Recontre avec Sulé , 2003
• Trans-Kasakh-Express , 2004
• Flench Wok , 2004
• Quand se Taisant les Oiseaux , 2006-07
• Walking in the Wind , with Uli Lenz , 2009

Web links

• François Jeanneau's website ( Memento of July 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• 2010 India tour
• François Jeanneau at Discogs (English)