Guillaume Séguron

Guillaume Séguron (born February 28, 1971 in Nîmes ) is a French bassist and composer of creative jazz as well as a sculptor . His musical role models include Henry Grimes , Gary Peacock , Richard Davis and Charlie Haden with his Liberation Music Orchestra .

Life

Séguron studied art history and archeology . He also studied double bass at the conservatory in his native city and in Paris with Bernard Cazauran and Jean-François Jenny-Clark . In the 2000s he worked with Anthony Ortega ( Bonjour , 2001), Philippe Deschepper / Denis Fournier ( Tota , 2003) as well as with Patrick Favre ( Intense ), Régis Huby ( Furrow ) and Catherine Delaunay ( Sois patient car le loup ). In 2003 he recorded the Police tribute Witches with his quartet . In 2008 he wrote SoMoS [1936 + 1939] - 1975 , a tribute to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. In the same year the album Nouvelles réponses des archives was created , which he recorded in a duo with the speaker Jo Villamosa, who read from the war diary of Séguron's grandfather. The album received a lot of critical acclaim in France. He also performed in Germany with his trio. In 2018 he worked with Joe McPhee .

Discographic notes

Witches (AJM, 2003), with Laure Donnat, Rémi Charmasson , Éric Échampard
Solo pour trois (Ajmiseries, 2008), with Patrice Soletti , Lionel Garcin
Bernhard Günter Workshop (Rude Awakening / Microscope 2008)
Guillaume Séguron - Catherine Delaunay - Davu Seru: La double vie de Pétrichor (nato 2015)
Joe McPhee, Daunik Lazro , Joshua Abrams , Guillaume Séguron, Chad Taylor : A Pride of Lions (The Bridge Sessions 2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Meeting with the French bassist Guillaume Séguron (DLF)
↑ Interview (2013), part 3
↑ Album portrait at jazzalajmi
↑ Interview (2013), part 1
↑ Interview (2013), part 2
^ Institut français Cologne ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Séguron, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French bassist and composer of creative jazz and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 28, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nîmes

[DLF-1] Meeting with the French bassist Guillaume Séguron (DLF)

[2] Interview (2013), part 3

[3] Album portrait at jazzalajmi

[4] Interview (2013), part 1

[5] Interview (2013), part 2

[6] Institut français Cologne ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )