Patrick Artero

Patrick Artero (born April 26, 1950 in Vietnam ) is a French jazz trumpeter , cornet player and flugelhorn player. He played old-time jazz , swing , but also modern jazz , light music and Latin American music . He is also a composer , including on his three jazz albums under his own name in the 2000s.

Live and act

Artero (who has Spanish roots) grew up in Algeria and France and learned to play the trumpet when he was ten. In 1969 he became a member of the old-time jazz band Les Haricots Rouge, which still exists today, for four years . He was then a member of Michel Attenoux's septet in the 1970s , where he came into contact with many well-known musicians of French mainstream jazz and accompanied many American jazz legends. At times he was a soloist in Claude Bolling's Big Band . In 1977 he played in the Anachronic Jazz Band when they received the Prix ​​Sidney Bechet .

He also composed and arranged for film and television and appeared as an actor in a French television film about Bix Beiderbecke . In the 1980s, he turned to Latin American music (such as salsa ) and led his own band, with which he accompanied, for example, the Senegalese-French band Touré Kunda , Alpha Blondy and the Zouk bands Kassav ' and Zouk Machine as well as variety artists .

In the 1990s he turned back to jazz. He played in the Paris Barcelona Swing Connection , in which he recorded with Frank Wess and Wild Bill Davis , played in the colleges of Sacha Distel and with the Big Band of Gérard Badini , in the Big Band founded by drummer François Laudet in 1993 and in the of the saxophonist Michel Pastre . He also played in the Megaswing Quintet and Mambo Mania as well as with the orchestra of Paul Mauriat , but also appeared as a soloist at jazz festivals around the world. But he also appeared a lot on French television as an accompanying musician. a. by Serge Gainsbourg , Eddy Mitchell , with Michel Legrand and Dizzy Gillespie and accompanied Henri Salvador on his farewell tour.

In Germany, he played in a common quintet with saxophonist Matthias Seuffert and was also in Swingtette of flip Gehring heard.

In 2009 he received the audience award at Les Victoires du Jazz . He lives in Germany and is married to a German.

Discographic notes

• Artero / Brel , Nocturne 2007 (a homage to Jacques Brel )
• Artero Vaudoo , Plus Loin 2009 ( dedicated to the African spiritual origins of voodoo and its connection to New Orleans to early jazz)
• 2 Bix but not too Bix , Nocturne 2004 (received the Prix ​​Boris Vian of the Academie du Jazz in 2004 , homage to Bix Beiderbecke)

Web links

• Homepage
• Biography at Jazz-Kalender , German translation of the bio on his homepage , English translation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Homepage of Seuffert
2. ^ French biography at the 2012 Ariège Theater Festival
3. ^ French review by Les Dernières Nouvelles du Jazz