Michel Petrucciani
Michel Petrucciani (born December 28, 1962 in Orange , Département Vaucluse , † January 6, 1999 in New York ) was a French jazz pianist with Italian roots.
Life
Michel Petrucciani was the youngest son of the Neapolitan jazz guitarist Antoine ( Tony ) Petrucciani and his French wife Anne. Petrucciani had vitreous bone disease and was short . In the course of his life he suffered hundreds of broken bones. Despite his short stature, his fingers were large and powerful. His father recognized his musical talent and encouraged him from pre-school years with hours of daily piano practice. With his father he recorded the 2001 album Conversations . Michel's brothers are also jazz musicians. Philippe became a guitarist and Louis played bass.
Because of his congenital illness, Michel Petrucciani could not go to school like other children. That is why he was sent tapes with lessons in French, mathematics and English to study independently. Instead of listening to and studying the cassettes he received, Michel Petrucciani deleted the lessons and dubbed music on them.
Petrucciani gave his first professional concert at the age of thirteen at a jazz festival in the Drôme region . He played with Kenny Clarke and the trumpeter Clark Terry . In 1979 he moved to Paris , where he released his debut album Flash the following year . There he also played in a trio with his brother and bassist Louis and the saxophonist Lee Konitz .
In 1982 he moved to California and played in the group of Charles Lloyd , with whom he performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival , among others , and subsequently worked closely together. In the same year he received the Prix Django Reinhardt . In 1983 it attracted attention at the Kool Jazz Festival . In the early 1980s, recordings were made with Lee Konitz , Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano . In March 1984 he appeared in a trio with Palle Danielsson and Eliot Zigmund in New York's Village Vanguard . A year later, the Blue Note album Pianism was created and in 1986 the trio album Power Of Three with Petrucciani on piano, Wayne Shorter on saxophone and Jim Hall on guitar.
In Germany he became better known through his regular appearances on the Willemsens Woche show with Roger Willemsen from October 1994 to June 1998. Petrucciani became friends with Willemsen "very well", in 1996 Willemsen accompanied him in New York City and dedicated his film debut to him as a Petrucciani portrait.
He also played with John Abercrombie , Joe Lovano , Jack DeJohnette and Eddy Louiss , among others .
In 1994 he performed a solo program with jazz standards ("Medley of my Favorite Songs") at the Parisian Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ; In 1996 the album Both Worlds was created with Bob Brookmeyer , Stefano Di Battista and Flavio Boltro . One of his last works is the Dreyfus album Solo Live , recorded in Frankfurt am Main , with interpretations of Strayhorn's “ Take the A-Train ”, “ Besame Mucho ” and Ellington's “ Caravan ”.
Petrucciani was married with a son (Alexandre) who inherited his disease and an adopted son. In 1999 Michel Petrucciani died of pneumonia . He was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris next to the grave of Frédéric Chopin . He buried his plan to open a jazz school in the south of France in 2001 and pass on his knowledge there, which was supposedly more important to him than advancing his career.
Honors (selection)
- 1982: Prix Django Reinhardt
- 1983: Jazz Man of the Year by Leonard Feather in the Los Angeles Times
- 1983: Best European Jazz Musician from the Italian Ministry of Culture
- 1985: Grand Prix du Disque - Prix Boris Vian for the album 100 Hearts
- 1994: Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
- 2003: Dedication of a place Michel Petrucciani in the 18th arrondissement of Paris
Discography
Important CD recordings
- Charles Lloyd: Montreux '82
- Charles Lloyd: A Night In Copenhagen with Bobby McFerrin
- Eddy Louiss , M. Petrucciani: Conference de presse
- Michel Petrucciani: Live in Germany (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
- Stéphane Grappelli , M. Petrucciani: Flamingo (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
- Michel & Tony Petrucciani: Conversation
- Michel Petrucciani, Steve Gadd , Anthony Jackson : Trio in Tokyo (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award)
- Michel Petrucciani, Gary Peacock , Roy Haynes : One Night in Karlsruhe (DE: Quarterly Award of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik 2/2019)
Recordings under your own name
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Documentaries
- Michel Petrucciani - Life Against Time (OT: Michel Petrucciani - Body & Soul. ), Documentary, France, Germany, Italy, 2011, 102 min., Director: Michael Radford , production: Gunnar Dedio (Looksfilm) in coproduction with Arte France Cinema and Roger Willemsen (Noa Noa), German cinema release: December 8, 2011, video excerpts, 1:49 min.
- Trio Live in Stuttgart , concert documentary in the Stuttgarter Liederhalle , February 8, 1998, 68 min., Director: Eric Ebinger. Trio with Anthony Jackson and Steve Gadd .
- Non Stop - Eine Reise mit Michel Petrucciani (Alternative title: Non Stop. Travels with Michel Petrucciani. ), Documentary, Germany, 1996, 58 min., Script and director: Roger Willemsen , production: Noa Noa, first broadcast: April 1996 on arte , Summary of eja-online; u. a. with Stéphane Grappelli , Roy Haynes , Charles Lloyd , Charlotte Rampling .
literature
- Benjamin Halay: Michel Petrucciani: Life Against Time. Edel, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8419-0174-3 .
Web links
- Official page archived for Michel Petrucciani [currently inactive]: Michel Petrucciani 1962–1999. ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
- Fanpage from Wim. ( Memento of March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: michel-petrucciani.info , (English)
- Obituary: Michel Petrucciani . In: The Independent , January 8, 1999
- Michel Petrucciani. ( Memento of April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Apropos music , Ö1
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Steve Voce: Obituary: Michel Petrucciani . In: The Independent , January 8, 1999.
- ↑ Michel Petrucciani - Life against Time . Documentary by Michael Radford, 2011, 102 min. Produced by Gunnar Dedio (Looksfilm) in coproduction with Arte France Cinema and Roger Willemsen (Noa Noa GmbH).
- ↑ My big little friend - The pianist Michel Petrucciani . In: NDR Info , February 12, 2016; Retrieved December 20, 2017.
- ↑ W [erner] S [tiefele]: Michel Petrucciani. Little Big Man . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 4 , January 25, 1999, Szene Jazz, p. 31 .
- ↑ a b Michel Petrucciani, pianist at Planète Jazz (French)
- ↑ Gold / platinum database . In: Bundesverband Musikindustrie , Petrucciani enter into the search mask.
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SURNAME | Petrucciani, Michel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz pianist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Orange , France |
DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1999 |
Place of death | New York , USA |