François Tusques
François Tusques (* 1938 in Paris ) is a French jazz pianist.
Live and act
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
literature
- Philippe Carles / Jean-Louis Comolli , Free Jazz - Black Power. Frankfurt a. M. 1974
- Philippe Carles, André Clergeat , Jean-Louis Comolli: Le nouveau dictionnaire du jazz . Edition Robert Laffont, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-221-11592-3
Web links
- François Tusques et le Nouveau Jazz Francais
- Les engagements de François Tusques après may 1968
- Dansons avec les Travailleurs Immigrés
- François Tusques at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eric Drott Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981 2011, p. 151
- ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tusques, François |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz pianist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |