Jérôme Bourdellon

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Jérôme Bourdellon (* 1956 ) is a French improvisation musician ( clarinet , flute ) and composer who is also active in the field of contemporary music .

Live and act

Bourdellon, who was initially a social worker, has focused on new and improvised music since the early 1980s; he has worked with composers interested in innovative instrumental techniques and other forms of musical writing. In the French and international improvisation scene he played a. a. with Thomas Buckner , Joe McPhee , Raymond Boni , Carlos Zingaro and Joëlle Léandre . Together with Damien Charron , Jean-Louis Charpille , Alain Lithaud , Antoine Gindt and Daniel Koskowitz , he was one of the founders of the Music Action de Vandœuvre Festival in Nancy, where he regularly appears. In 1994 he recorded his first solo album, Trajet Solo ; In 2006 he presented the solo album Totem (Mutable), on which he can be heard with the baritone Thomas Buckner, the saxophonist Joe McPhee and himself on flutes and shakuhachi in compositions for sculptures by the sculptor Alain Kirili .

Jérôme Bourdellon lives in the northern French city of Nancy .

Discographic notes

  • AMIS Quartet: For Frank Wright (Label Usine, 1992), with Joe McPhee, André Jaume , Daunik Lazro
  • Jérôme Bourdellon / Joe McPhee: Novio Iolu (Label Usine, 1994)
  • Joe McPhee & Jérôme Bourdellon: Manhattan Tango (Label Usine, 2000)
  • Raymond Boni / Jérôme Bourdellon: The Visit (Usine, 2000)
  • Roscoe Mitchell / Thomas Buckner / Jérôme Bourdellon / Dalila Khatir: Kirili et les Nympheas (Mutable, 2008)
  • Carlos Alves Zingaro / Jean-Luc Cappozzo / Jérôme Bourdellon / Nicolas Lelievre : Live at Total Meeting ( NoBusiness Records , 2010)
  • Joëlle Léandre & Jerome Bourdellon: Evidence ( Relative Pitch Records , 2011)
  • Jérôme Bourdellon & Michel Edelin : Peninsula (Label Usine, 2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait (Audiorama)
  2. ↑ a b “Raffarin, nous voilà!”, La belle carrière d'un hit des manifs. Liberation , April 30, 2005
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 31, 2018)
  4. ↑ Album profile on Allmusic , accessed on May 19, 2019.
  5. ↑ Totem: Jerome Bourdellon + Thomas Buckner , accessed on May 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Bourdellon, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French improvisation musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956