Jean Corti

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Jean Corti (born 1929 in Bergamo , Italy ; † November 25, 2015 in France ) was an Italian-French accordionist and composer . He was best known for his collaboration with Jacques Brel , for whom he composed several chansons . He did not release his first solo album until 2001.

Life

Born in 1929 in Bergamo, northern Italy, Corti was one of the large number of Italian accordionists who became active in and influenced the French musette scene. His musical career took him from playing the accordion in a military brothel in the mid-1940s to accompanying the French chansonnier Georges Brassens on the double bass .

In 1960 Corti met Jacques Brel in Bandol , who hired him as an accompanist. For the next six years he was one of Brel's established musicians and performed up to 300 concerts a year with the chansonnier. He composed the music for Les bourgeois , that for Titine together with Gérard Jouannest and the chansons Madeleine , Les toros and Les vieux with Brel and Jounnast . Tired of touring, Corti announced at a concert in the Soviet Union at the end of 1965 that he would be leaving Brel's accompanying combo the following year. Corti opened a night bar in Les Mureaux , where Brel gave one of his last concerts before ending his stage career himself.

Corti remained musically active and played or composed for Jo Privat , Armand Lassagne , Barbara , Michel Petrucciani , Alain Bashung and Les Rita Mitsouko . He wrote the music for the Oscar- nominated short film The Old Lady and the Doves from 1997. In 2001 he released his first solo album, produced by Têtes Raides , which was followed by two more in the following years.

Discography

  • 2001: Couka
  • 2007: Versatile
  • 2009: Fiorina

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jean Corti at Last.fm
  2. ^ Mort de Jean Corti, accordéoniste de Brel aux Têtes Raides . On Télérama , November 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ Olivier Todd: Jacques Brel - a life . Achilla-Presse, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-928398-23-7 , pp. 159-162.
  4. ↑ See the list of chansons and publications by Jacques Brel .
  5. ↑ Olivier Todd: Jacques Brel - a life , pp. 397, 407.
  6. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2011 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. at Mon Pauvre Ami . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / monpauvreami.eu
personal data
SURNAME Corti, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian accordionist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergamo , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2015
Place of death France