Michel Edelin
Michel Edelin (born February 25, 1941 in Paris ) is a French jazz flutist .
Life
Edelin learned to play the flute as an autodidact . As a soloist in the prog rock band Triode , which released their only album in 1971, he became known in France. Then he played in the group Flûtes-Rencontre , with which he also released an album (1980) and performed at international festivals. During the 1980s he led his own quartets in the field of jazz , including musicians such as Andy Emler , Mico Nissim , François Méchali , Peter Gritz and Fredy Studer . Together with Méchali, he formed a nonet that performed compositions by the two leaders and united musicians such as Michel Godard , Tony Lakatos , Yochk'o Seffer and Maurice Magnoni . In the early 1990s he toured with Byard Lancaster , but also performed with Dave Valentin (at the Montreux Jazz Festival ) and with Jérôme Bourdellons Flûtes Europe Express (with Jiří Stivín , Méchali and Barry Altschul ). He dealt intensively with Puccini's opera Tosca , which he adapted for a jazz quintet; he also worked with Phil Minton , Magik Malik , Chris Hayward, Jean Bolcato and Jean-Jacques Agel's ethno jazz band Waraba . In 2011 he performed with the Indigo Trio to Nicole Mitchell in Strasbourg and at Jazz à Juan . He also appeared in the quintet Flute Fever with the flautists Ludivine Issambourg and Sylvaine Hélary .
He also wrote the jazz opera Ze Blue Note and recorded with Carlos Bechegas and Steve Potts .
Discographic notes
- Round about Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (Night & Day, 1997; with Jacques Di Donato , François Couturier , François Méchali, Daniel Humair )
- Et la Tosca passa (Night & Day, 2002; with Jacques Di Donato, François Couturier, François Méchali, Daniel Humair)
- Kuntu ( RogueArt , 2009; with Jean-Jacques Avenel, John Betsch and Steve Lehman )
- Indigo Trio & Michel Edelin The Ethopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest (RogueArt, 2011; with Nicole Mitchell, Harrison Bankhead , Hamid Drake )
- Jérôme Bourdellon & Michel Edelin Peninsula (Label Usine 2018)
Lexical entries
- Philippe Carles , André Clergeat , Jean-Louis Comolli : Le nouveau dictionnaire du jazz . Edition Robert Laffont, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-221-11592-3
Web links
- Web presence
- Meeting Kuntu
- Discussion The Ethopian Princess Meets the Tantric Priest
- Michel thoroughbred at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Edelin, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz flutist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |