Jean-Pierre Mas

Jean-Pierre Mas (born October 22, 1948 in Ria-Sirach , Pyrénées-Orientales , France ) is a French jazz pianist and composer of film scores .

Live and act

Mas received his first piano lessons at the age of five in Prades . He later received musical instruction from Pablo Casals there . At the age of ten he played in a dance orchestra on weekends and during the holidays. In 1968 he moved to Paris , where he first played bebop . In the mid-1970s he played with Cesarius Alvim Rue de Lourmel and other albums as a duo, partly supplemented by Daniel Humair ; In 1981 they made their last album together with brass. Since the 1980s he has concentrated on his work as a film composer, which he had started in 1973.

Filmography (selection)

• 1975: The Bad Pleasure (Le malin plaisir) - Director: Bernard Toublanc-Michel
• 1977: why not! (Pouquoi pas!) - Director: Coline Serreau
• 1981: A murderer passes by (Un assassin qui passe)
• 1982: Coast of Love (La côte d'amour)
• 1983: Two professionals get out (Un dimanche de flic)
• 1985: The Conspiracy (Spécial police)
• 1987: Flag
• 1988: Beloved are not hidden (La petite amie)
• 1995: A dangerous woman (La femme dangereuse)
• 1997: Mon Amour - A Murderous Love (Mon amour)
• 1999: Pepe Carvalho: The Dead Manager (La solitude du manager)
• 2000-2004: Commissioner Moulin (TV series, four episodes)
• 2005: Dunia (Director: Jocelyne Saab )
• 2005: The Duke of Windsor (Edouard VIII d'Angleterre)
• 2008: Pandoras Box (Pandora'nin kutusu) - Director: Yesim Ustaoglu

Discographic notes

• Jean-Pierre Mas / Cesarius Alvim / Daniel Humair Jamais Deux Sans Trois (Owl, 1977)
• Mas / Alvim (with Claudio Roditi , Jean-Louis Chautemps , Idriss Boudrioua, 1981)
• Jean-Pierre Mas (with Didier Lockwood , André Ceccarelli , Jean-Marie Ecay and Juan José Mosalini , 1991)
• Waiting for the Moon (with Jacques Mahieux and Sylvin Marc, 1998)

Web links

• portrait
• Jean-Pierre Mas at Allmusic (English)
• Jean-Pierre Mas in the Internet Movie Database (English)