Lionel Martin (musician)
Lionel Martin (* 1974 ) is a French jazz musician ( saxophone ).
Live and act
Martin began taking classical music lessons on the saxophone at the age of seven; at the age of twelve he discovered jazz and began to devote himself to improvisation. At the age of 14 he was already performing as a street musician . He has been a professional musician since 1997. From 2000 he worked with his trio; Between 2002 and 2007 he developed numerous interdisciplinary projects with dancers, actors and visual artists as part of the IMUZZIC network. Then began the collaboration with Sophia Domancich and the UKanDanZ project with Ethiopian musicians, with whom he also appeared in North America and at the Berlin Jazzdor Festival. He founded the Trio Resistances(with Bruno Tocanne and Benoît Keller), who produced the recordings Etats d'urgence , Résistances and Global Songs , and a collaborative trio with Bruno Tocanne and Rémi Gaudillat ( New Dreams Now!, 2007). With the Octobre project he devoted himself to the playing style of the Liberation Music Orchestra . Furthermore, there were collaborations with the clarinetist Catherine Delaunay , with Ramón López and with George Garzone . In a duo with Mario Stantchev he traces the music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk . In the Palm Unit he recalls the music of Jef Gilson .
He has also performed with musicians such as Denis Badault , Serge Lazarevitch , François Thuillier , Vincent Courtois , Laurent Dehors , Jacques Di Donato , Laurent Cugny , Bobby Rangell , François Merville , Hasse Poulsen , Olivier Sens and Benoît Delbecq .
In 1997 Martin received the 1st prize at the international competition of the Getxo Jazz Festival with the formation Free Sons Sextet .
Web links
- portrait
- Short biography
- Lionel Martin at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martin, Lionel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz musician (saxophone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |