Jacques Pellen

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Jacques Pellen (left) with his nephew Ronan Pellen (2007)

Jacques Pellen (born April 1957 in Brest , Finistère department ; † April 21, 2020 there ) was a French jazz guitarist and composer .

Live and act

Pellen, who received his first guitar lessons at the age of twelve, completed a classical music education; after his university studies he worked as a freelance musician. Already in the 1970s there was a collaboration with the Breton singer Mélaine Favennec and the harpist Kristen Noguès . Through the guitarist Dan Ar Braz he came to a new interpretation of the musical tradition of Brittany . In 1979 he founded a guitar duo with Bruno Nevez, which developed into a quartet with François Daniel and Peter Gritz .

With guest musician Kenny Wheeler , he recorded the Celtic Procession , which he had composed, for the first time in 1989 ; In 1996 Sorserez was established u. a. with Riccardo Del Fra . In 1996 he founded the guitar trio "PSG" with Soïg Sibéril and Jean-Charles Guichen . With Paolo Fresu and Erik Marchand he formed the Trio Condaghés in 1998 . Musically, Pellen moved in the area of ethno-jazz , folk and Celtic music .

Pellen also composed for the pianist Jean-Marie Machado and took part in Dan Ar Braz's project L'Héritage des Celtes . He lived in Portsall, Ploudalmézeau parish . Pellen died in April 2020 after a three-week hospital stay at the age of 63 from the effects of COVID-19 .

Dan Ar Braz and Jacques Pellen (right) with the Orchester symphonique de Bretagne (2015)

Discographic notes

  • 1989: Jacques Pellen 4 (Caravan), with Riccardo Del Fra, Peter Gritz , Kenny Wheeler
  • 1993: Celtic Procession ( Silex )
  • 1993: Jacky Molard - Patrick Molard - Jacques Pellen: Triptyque (Gwerz Pladenn)
  • 1999: Les Tombées de la Nuit - Celtic Procession Live (Naïve)
  • 2003: Ephéméra (Naïve)
  • 2007: Lament for the Children (Naïve), with Gildas Boclé, Marcello Pellitteri

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 , edited by Andy Gregory. Europa Publications Taylor & Francis, 2002, p. 399.
  2. ^ A b Joan Bizien: Coronavirus: le guitariste breton Jacques Pellen est décédé. In: France Bleu Breizh Izel . April 21, 2020, accessed on April 21, 2020 (French).
  3. ^ Stéphane Fougère: "PSG", Ethnotempos - musiques Ethniques d'aujourd'hui, 2002. Accessed April 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Pellen, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Brest , Finistère department
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2020
Place of death Brest