Jean-Philippe Allard

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Jean-Philippe Allard (born April 8, 1957 in Saint-Mandé ) is a French music producer and manager of the phonogram industry .

Allard started out as a producer in the late 1970s. In Paris he monitored albums by Gil Evans / Laurent Cugny , Helen Merrill , Charlie Haden , Hank Jones , Stan Getz , Kenny Barron , John McLaughlin , Graham Haynes , Christian Escoudé , Bheki Mseleku , Juliette Gréco and Laïka Fatien . Productions of Abbey Lincoln and Randy Weston transported whose international comeback. He was also responsible for reissues from Jimmy Giuffre , Chet Baker , Bobby Jaspar and Miles Davis .

In 1998 Allard became general manager of the French Polydor . He also headed their jazz and classical division. Since 2007, Allard has been responsible for the publications of Universal Music Publishing France MGB . In 2012 he received an honorary award from Les Victoires du Jazz . In 2014 he reactivated the Impulse label ! for new publications, e.g. by Henry Butler / Steven Bernstein or Ran Blake . In the same year Allard was awarded the Prix ​​Bruce Lundvall at the Montreux Jazz Festival for his work as a producer .

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  1. ↑ Short bio
  2. ^ Mike Hennessey There's Still Room in France for All That Jazz Billboard May 22, 1993, p. F-18
  3. ^ Nate Chinen Reviving the House Coltrane Built New York Times , April 22, 2014
  4. ↑ Short biographies / acknowledgments of the 2014 award winners ( memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.montrealjazzfest.com
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SURNAME Allard, Jean-Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French music producer and record industry manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Mandé