Jean-Loup Longnon

Jean-Loup Longnon, 2019

Jean-Loup Longnon (* 2. February 1953 in Paris ) is a French jazz - trumpet player , composer and arranger of modern jazz .

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Longnon comes from a family of writers and musicians and initially learned the piano and cello, but turned to jazz at the age of 15, where, in his own words, he learned to play his instrument predominantly by himself (with Dizzy Gillespie as a model). At the same time he became interested in composition from an early age. He has been playing with his own small groups and his own big band for years. He worked u. a. with the France-based Kenny Clarke , Martial Solal , Stéphane Grappelli , Michel Petrucciani , Eddy Louiss but also with Dizzy Gillespie (whom he calls his friend), Wynton Marsalis , Randy Brecker , Clark Terry , Stan Getz . In 1999 he released the live recording "Bop Dreamer" from the Marciac Jazz Festival (Pygmalion Records, with his septet, with two trumpets and two tenor saxophones). "Cyclades" (JMS / Sony, 1992, inspired by the Greek islands of the same name with titles such as Naxos, Mikonos) is the result of a project with over 90 musicians (Brazilian singers such as Mônica Passos and percussionists with a Portuguese version of the Marseillaise , symphony orchestra, big band , Stéphane Grappelli and others, Longnon also with scat singing). With the pianist Louis Mazetier he recorded the album “Just Friends”, in which bebop meets stride piano .

As a composer he is, in his own words, influenced not only by jazz (bop) but also by classical composers such as Claude Debussy , Maurice Ravel and Henri Dutilleux ( Igor Stravinsky , Francis Poulenc , Darius Milhaud and Brazilian music should be added).

Longnon won the Django Reinhardt Prix of the French Académie du Jazz in 1991 (and its Boris Vian Prize) and in 1995 the Django d´Or as the best French jazz musician.

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SURNAME	Longnon, Jean-Loup
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French jazz trumpeter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 2, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris