Médéric Collignon
Médéric Collignon (born July 6, 1970 in Villers-Semeuse ) is a French jazz musician (pocket cornet , bow horn , trumpet, various other instruments such as keyboards) and composer . He also uses various partially innovative vocal techniques, also electronically supported. His music is inspired by a wide variety of sources (such as funk, hard rock, salsa, different jazz styles, Olivier Messiaen , Edgar Varèse ).
Live and act
Collignon was born in the Ardennes and studied trumpet from the age of seven. Among other things, he had a classical education at the Conservatory of Charleville-Mézières , which he left in 1989 to make completely different music.
From around 1996 he was in Paris, where he played in the Orchester National de Jazz under the direction of Paolo Damiani and then Claude Barthélémy . He played in various formations, partly in dance and theater projects ( L´instrument á pression by David Lescot with the actor Jacques Bonnaffé ). He played in the duo Machination with trombonist Sébastien Llado . He also belonged to Le Sacre du Tympan by Fred Pallem .
He worked with his own quartet Jus de Bocse (with Philippe Gleizes , drums, the German pianist Frank Woeste , Frédéric Chiffoleau , bass), with whom he recorded two albums to music by Miles Davis ( Porgy and Bess and Shangri-Tunkashi-La , which is dedicated to the merger phase of Davis). With his Ensemble Septik he realized an Ennio Morricone program at the Marciac Jazz Festival in 2008 . As a sideman, he recorded with Andy Emler MegaOctet (several albums from 2004 to 2009) and with Wanja Slavin Quintet with Wanja Slavin , Karsten Hochapfel , Ronny Graupe , Robert Landfermann and Christian Lillinger and Louis Sclavis (Napoli´s Walls, ECM 2003 ).
Prizes and awards
In 2008 he received the Prix Django Reinhardt together with saxophonist Géraldine Laurent and in 2009 became Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. In 2007 he and his quartet Jus de Bocse won in the category New Discovery of the Year and in 2010 as French Artist of the Year at Les Victoires du Jazz .
Discographic notes
- Porgy and Bess , Discograph 2006 (received the Grand Prix du Disque de la Musique Jazz of the Charles Cros Academy in 2006)
- Shangri-Tunkashi-La , Plus Loin Music, 2010
- À la recherche du roi frippé , Just Looking, 2012
Web links
- Biography at the Academie du Jazz, French
- Collignon at the Jazzmeeting Berlin 2010
- Médéric Collignon at Discogs (English)
- Sound carrier by Médéric Collignon in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Collignon, Médéric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villers-Semeuse |