Jean Toussaint
Jean Toussaint (born July 27, 1960 in Saint Thomas , US Virgin Islands ) is an American jazz saxophonist.
biography
Toussaint began his musical career as a calypso player on Saint Thomas before studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1978 to 1982 . He toured with a rhythm and blues band in 1979 and formed a quintet with Wallace Roney . From 1982 to 1986 he was a member of Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers , with whom he also recorded.
In 1987, at the invitation of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he went to London to teach there. He worked in London a. a. with Wynton Marsalis , McCoy Tyner and the Gil Evans Orchestra and released eight own evenings. He leads a quartet and performs in a duo with guitarist Lionel Loueke . He also teaches at Trinity College of Music and the Birmingham Conservatoire .
Discographic notes
- Jean Toussaint, Jason Rebello , Ray Drummond , Kenny Washington Impressions of Coltrane (1988)
- What Goes Around (1991)
- Life I Want (1996, with Darren Abraham , Wayne Batchelor , Ciyo Brown , Winston Clifford , Mark Mondesir , Jean-Michel Pilc , Jason Rebello, Tony Remy , Dennis Rollins , Nana Tsiboe , Karl Van Den Bossche , Cleveland Watkiss )
- Nazaire Who's Blues (1991, with Nick Cohen , Julian Joseph , Jason Rebello, Tony Remy, Karl Van Den Bossche, Steve Washington)
- The Street Above the Underground (2000)
- Blue Black (2001 with Anga Diaz , Robert Hurst , Mulgrew Miller , Bill Mobley , Jeff Tain Watts )
- Continuum Act One (2004, with Gary Bartz , Donald Brown , Bill Mobley, Billy Killson, Essiet Essiet )
- Live In Paris & London (2009)
- Brother Raymond , 2018, with Tom Harrison, Byron Wallen or Mark Kavuma, Dennis Rollins or Tom Dunnett, Jason Rebello or Andrew McCormack or Ashley Henry , Alec Dankworth or Daniel Casimir , Mark Mondesir or Shane Forbes or Troy Miller, Williams Cumberbatch Perez
- Jean Toussaint Allstar 6tet: Live at the Jazz Café 091218 (Lyte Records, 2020), with Byron Wallen, Dennis Rollins, Andrew McCormack, Daniel Casimir, William Cumberbache Perez, Shaney Forbes
Lexical entry
- Barry Kernfeld (Editor) New Grove Dictionary of Jazz , Macmillan 1996
Web links
- Jean Toussaint at Allmusic (English)
- Jean Toussaint at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Alan Goldsher Hard Bop Academy: The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers , p. 84. Another origin ( Aruba , Lesser Antilles ) has Kernfield and Allmusic.
- ↑ to Kernfeld in “St. Thomas, Trinidad. "
- ↑ Meeting (The Guardian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toussaint, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz saxophonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint Thomas , Virgin Islands |