Jean Bolcato

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Jean Bolcato is a French jazz - bassist (also voice, percussion).

Live and act

In 1965, Bolcato met the film archivist Henri Langlois , with whom he set up a branch of the Cinémathèque française in Bourg-en-Bresse . In 1968 he founded the band Free Jazz Workshop in Lyon with Maurice Merle , Pierre Guyon and Jean Méreu (album Inter Fréquences , 1973). As part of the Association à la Recherche d'un Folklore Imaginaire (ARFI), which he co-founded, he worked in the Workshop de Lyon (with Maurice Merle, Louis Sclavis and Christian Rollet ) and in the large formation La Marmite Infernale (among others with Alain Gibert , Jean-Paul Autin , Xavier Garcia , Jean-Luc Cappozzo , Christian Ville , Rollet), with whom five albums were created by 2005, also in a duo with Sclavis and Patrick Vollat . He also belonged to the quartet modules to André Jaume . Since 1993 he has also played with Rollet and Daunik Lazro in the Trio And His Orchestra . In the 1990s he also recorded with Lazro, Carlos Zíngaro and Sakis Papadimitriou (album Periferia 1995) as well as with Norbert Stein ( News of Roi Ubu ), 2000 with Tchangodei ( Conséquence Vitale ); In 2004 he released the CD Eau forte with Quatre à Quatre . In the field of jazz he was involved in 43 recording sessions between 1973 and 2010. In 2019 he recorded with Charles Pennequin, La Marmite Infernale and the Choeur Spirito Les Plutériens: Opéra-Space . Bolcato has also appeared as a soloist at several festivals, but also made music with Joëlle Léandre and Michel Edelin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tom Lord Jazz Discography (Online, accessed August 21, 2013)
  2. Tom Lord Jazz Discography