François Tusques

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François Tusques (* 1938 in Paris ) is a French jazz pianist.

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Tusques came to Brittany with his family shortly after his birth , as his father was active in the Resistance . He later lived in Afghanistan for two years and in Dakar for two years. Because of the endangerment he did not attend a French school and until he was eighteen when he began to study piano, he had no proper musical education.

First he played in the group of Bernard Vitet , the first French free jazz group (with Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano ). In 1965 he recorded the first French record with free collective improvisations , the album Free Jazz , with Vitet, Beb Guérin , Michel Portal , François Jeanneau and Charles Saudrais . In 1968, Sunny Murray founded the Acoustical Swing Unit , which over the years included Tusques, Guérin, Vitet and Portal, Ambrose Jackson , Alan Silva , Frank Wright , Byard Lancaster , Arthur Jones and Earl Freeman .

When many American jazz musicians came to Paris in the late 1960s, Tusques a. a. with Anthony Braxton , Don Cherry and Clifford Thornton . With Thornton he released the album The Panther and the Lash in 1970 ;

In the early 1970s he founded the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra with French and African musicians , the u. a. Jean Méreu , Alan Silva , Denis Levaillant , Carlos Andreu , Jo Maka , Michel Marre , Adolf "Ramadolf" Winkler , Guem , Sylvain Kassap , Jean-Jacques Avenel , Bernard Vitet, Jacques Thollot , Sam Ateba , Cheikh Tidiane Fall and Carlos Andreu . With this formation he recorded about ten albums in the course of ten years, in which different musical cultures are treated equally in the sense of a world jazz . After the oil spill caused by the Amoco Cadiz disaster , he recorded the album Après la marée noire with this group and an ensemble around the Breton Bombarde player Jean-Louis Le Vallégant .

In 1980 he appeared at the Chantenay-Villedieu Festival with Violeta Ferrer , with whom he recorded the Poemas de Federico García Lorca . The following year he played with Jacques Coursil , Jean-Jacques Avenel and Muhammad Ali the music for Génération , a documentary film about the events of May 1968 in Paris. Since the mid-1980s, he formed a trio with Noel McGhee and Denis Colin , with whom he has worked regularly ever since.

In addition, Tusques is also working on projects with the actress and singer Isabel Juanpera and the architect and visual artist Jean-Max Albert .

Discographic notes

  • Free jazz with Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin, Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, 1965
  • Le Nouveau Jazz with Barney Wilen , Jean-François Jenny-Clark , Aldo Romano , 1967
  • Sunny Murray live concert with the Acoustical Swing Unit, 1968
  • Big Chief , Acoustical Swing Unit, 1969
  • The Panther and the Lash with Clifford Thornton, Beb Guérin, Noel McGhie , 1970
  • Intercommunal Music with Sunny Murray, Alan Silva, Beb Guérin, Alan Shorter , Steve Potts , Bob Reid , Louis Armfield , 1971
  • Après la marée noire with Jean-Louis Le Vallégant, Gaby Kerdoncuff, Philippe Lestrat, Tanguy Ledore, Ramadolf, Michel Marre, Samuel Ateba, Carlos Andreu, Jo Maka, Kilikus
  • Poemas de Federico Garcia Lorca with Violeta Ferrer, 1980
  • Le Jardin des Délices , 1992
  • Blue Phédre , 1996, with Mimi Lorenzini
  • Blues Suite with Noel McGhie and Denis Colin, 1998
  • François Tusques / Sonny Simmons Near the Oasis , 2011
  • L'étang change (mais les poissons sont toujours la) , 2012
  • François Tusques / Alexandra Grimal / Sylvain Guérineau La jungle du douanier Rousseau , 2014
  • Piano Dazibao (2019) solo

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Drott Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981 2011, p. 151
  2. ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
personal data
SURNAME Tusques, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris