Léon Francioli

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Léon Francioli (2016)

Léon Francioli (born May 22, 1946 in Lausanne , † March 9, 2016 in Lausanne) was a Swiss creative jazz musician ( double bass , also guitar, cello and piano) and composer of film and theater music.

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Francioli first studied piano and then double bass at the Lausanne Conservatory. First he was a member of the rock band Les Aiglons , then he accompanied singers such as Dalida and Michel Bühler . From 1970 he worked in the Swiss jazz scene; on Nolilanga , his first album under his own name, he brought together Alan Skidmore , Pierre Cullaz and Pierre Favre . In 1972 he presented his quartet with Eje Thelin , Jouck Minor and Favre at the Montreux Jazz Festival ; a recording was released on the Evasion Disques label. In the same year he became internationally known in the group of Michel Portal (with Favre, Beb Guérin and Bernard Vitet , later Bernard Lubat ), with whom he performed at the Châteauvallon Festival in 1972 and 1976 and at the NDR Jazz Workshop in 1974 . With Favre and George Gruntz he took part in the 1979 performance of Rolf Liebermann's Concerto for Jazzband in Zurich .

In 1979 he wrote the score for the feature film Kleine Fluchten . He performed at the Willisau Jazz Festival in 1980 with Don Cherry , John Tchicai , Irène Schweizer and Favre . In 1981 he founded the Sunnymoon group with Werner Lüdi , Stephan Wittwer and Fredy Studer . He also worked on albums by Favre, Michel Portal and Radu Malfatti for HatHut Records around 1980 . With Favre he also played in a trio with trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff ( Triple Entente , 1982). Despite crossing boundaries, "warm and communicative, his game is largely based on a dialogue with his partners."

From 1981 to 1991 he was a member of the BBFC improvisation quartet with Jean-François Bovard , Daniel Bourquin and Olivier Clerc , which performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival and other festivals and recorded several albums for Plainisphare . With Bovard he formed the Francioli Bovard Orchestra ( Music on Plainisphare) in 1984 and played in the sextet of the pianist François Lindemann . In 1985 he belonged to the trio of pianist Alex Theus . In the early 1990s, Francioli worked with Joe McPhee ( Linear B ) and Mario Schiano ( And So On ). In 2007 he performed with Alex Theus and Daniel Bourquin at the Schaffhausen Jazz Festival . He toured with Bourquin and released the albums Border Line / La Passion (with Pascal Auberson ) and Journal Intime Vol.1 Musique Ancienne .

Francioli also composed music for dance performances. Most recently he recorded several albums with singer Stéphane Blok . He died of complications from cancer.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary
  2. ^ A b Lausanne jazz musician Léon Francioli has died . Aargauer Zeitung
  3. ↑ The sound engineer was Stephan Sulke , whom he later accompanied on his first record.
  4. ↑ George Gruntz : Born as a white negro. A life for jazz. Corvus Verlag, Berneck 2002
  5. ↑ It was not until 2016 that the recording was released on CD Musical Monsters by Intakt Records .
  6. ↑ Entry (jazzphone.ch) ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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.jazzphone.ch

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SURNAME Francioli, Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician (mainly double bass, initially guitar) and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2016
Place of death Lausanne