Jacques Bolognesi

Jacques Bolognesi (2004)

Jacques Bolognesi (born January 6, 1947 in Gap ) is a French jazz musician ( trombone , piano , accordion , composition ).

Live and act

Bolognesi began playing the accordion as a self-taught in his father's shoemaker's shop. After taking classical piano lessons from the concert pianist Madeleine de Valmalète, he studied piano at the Grenoble Conservatory , then the trombone - which he discovered at the age of thirteen - at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris , where he won first prize in 1969 completed.

Bolognesi earned his living as a member of the Moulin Rouge orchestra during his studies . Then he belonged to the bands of Claude Cagnasso , Eddy Louiss / Ivan Jullien , Hal Singer , Claude Bolling , Martial Solal , Henri Salvador , Michel Legrand and Sacha Distel . Henri Guédon made his first recordings as an accordionist ( Afro Blue 1982) with him . In 1987 Antoine Hervé brought him to the Orchester National de Jazz ; in Sous les lofts de Paris he featured him on the accordion. In 1990 Bolognesi was one of the participants in the scrapbook Paris Musette published by La Lichère .

Between 1989 and 1991 he continued his career as a trombonist and leader of the big band Caravansérail , with whom he presented the album Grande Orchester . Since 1994 he has worked with Francis Varis , first in a duo, then in the BoloVaris trio with drummer Pierre Tiboum Guignon and in a quintet with Marc Fosset on guitar and Jean-Luc Ponthieux on double bass. From 1995 to 1999 Bolognesi also worked as a pianist and accordionist in François Lindemann's Ensemble Piano Seven , with which an album was also created. He also appeared with Cesaria Evora ( Cabo Verde , 2002), Ute Lemper and Patrice Caratini on the new recording of André Hodeir's Anna Livia Plurabelle and played the music of Duke Ellington (2000) with the Martial Solal dodeka band . With Léo Petit , he presented the album Paris sur valse . He has also performed with Mico Nissim and in concert with TubaTuba , the quartet of tuba players Michel Godard and Dave Bargeron . Since 2004 he has led the group Accordéons et d'ailleurs , in which seven Parisian accordionists work together (album on Universal ). In 2007 he released the album Hermetotico with the Bolognesi-Fosset Trio, with whom he also worked for the next few years .

As a studio musician, he also worked on recordings by Elton John ( Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player ), Manu Dibango , France Gall , Magma , Paul Simon ( The Rhythm of the Saints ), Alpha Blondy , Françoise Hardy , Papa Wemba or Karlheinz Stockhausen ( moments ) with. He also composed for Henri Guédon, Marc Steckar , Jules Kamga and David Koven.

Web links

• biography
• Jacques Bolognesi at Discogs (English)