Guillaume Perret
Guillaume Perret (born June 21, 1980 in Annecy ) is a French jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , also keyboards ) and composer .
Live and act
Perret, who received his first music lessons at the age of six, played with the big band Collectif Lebocal at the age of 18 , on whose three albums he was involved. He studied at the Conservatory of Chambery . Music, in order to acquire various diplomas between 1999 and 2001. Then he wrote music for the Théâtre d'Icy and worked with various jazz musicians such as Claude Tchamitchian , Nguyên Lê , Flavio Boltro , Miles Okazaki , François Lindemann , Anne Ducros ( Ella my Dear , 2010) and Pascal Alba. He toured Switzerland, Poland, Germany and Latin America with the No Square quartet , which he founded in 2004 . In 2010 he performed with the Collectif Lebocal at jazzahead . In 2012 Perret released his first album under his own name on Tzadik (some pieces were already available in small editions as in-house production). With his band project The Electric Epic (with bassist Philippe Bussonnet and drummer Yoann Serra ) he made a guest appearance at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival in 2013 .
Perret is increasingly perceived as a "sound researcher" who uses electronics to extract new sounds from the saxophone and "sometimes sounds like a trumpet, sometimes like a clarinet". "His use of electronic equipment turns the royal instrument of acoustic jazz into a completely different instrument."
Discographic notes
- Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic (with Philippe Bussonet, Yoann Serra, Jim Grandcamp; New Arts International / Tzadik Records 2012)
- Open Me , Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic (with Philippe Bussonet, Yoann Serra, Jim Grandcamp; Kakoum! Records 2014)
- Karim Ziad Jdid (with Jacques Schwarz-Bart , Tigran Hamasyan , Bojan Z , Linley Marthe , Hadrien Feraud et al .; 2012)
- No Square (with André Hahne, Yannick Oppliger, Gabriel Zufferey ; Altruisioni 2004/05)
- Marxis (with Markus Calame, Alexis Trembley, Jean-Luc Riesen, Raphael Anker, Claude Tabarini; Unit 2003)
- Le Bocal Oh no! Just Another Frank Zappa Mémorial Barbecue ( Harmonia Mundi 2003)
- Free alone with the sax machine (Kakhoum, 2016)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait (France Inter)
- ↑ Review of Guillaume Perret & the Electric Epic (Baby Blue Pages)
- ↑ Expansion of the sound zone: Electronics wizard Guillaume Perret wired his saxophone (portrait; hessischer Rundfunk) ( memento of the original from September 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perret, Guillaume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Annecy |