Philippe Laudet
Philippe Laudet (born December 11, 1959 in Nanterre ) is a French physicist and jazz musician ( trumpet , clairon , piano , arrangement , composition , orchestral direction).
Live and act
Laudet had classical piano training from the age of six; from the age of ten he occupied himself with the jazz piano under the impression of Count Basie's music ; at 15 he learned jazz trumpet , where Sweets Edison and Joe Newman were early role models. He studied astrophysics (diploma 1983, doctorate 1987) in Toulouse and from the late 1970s also worked (semi-professional) as a musician and leader of a big band .
In 1980 he founded the Ornicar Big Band with his brother François and his friends Jean-Michel Proust, Jean-Marc Fritz and Pierre Maingourd , which existed until 1995, recorded several albums and made guest appearances at numerous festivals such as Jazz à Vienne or Jazz in Marciac . He also worked as a soloist with Philippe Renault ( Bossa Pour Septembre ), from 1993 to 2005 in the Tudexo Big Band under the direction of Paul Chéron ( Rhythm Is Our Business ). From 1996 he led his own quartet, from 2005 the big band project Jazz Odyssée . Laudet was awarded the Concours National de La Défense in 1982 and in 1994 both the Académie du Jazz and the Hot Club de France . In the field of jazz, he was involved in nine recording sessions from 1984 to 2004. Philippe Laudet's trumpet playing is in the tradition of Clark Terry .
Laudet works at the Center national d'études spatiales (CNES), where he heads a working group that is developing a seismograph for the international InSight expedition to Mars .
Discographic notes
- Mais Ou Est Donc Ornicar? (IDA, 1984), with guest soloist Joe Henderson
- Le Retour D'Ornicar (IDA, 1987)
- Jazz Cartoon (Big Blue, 1989)
- L'Incroyable Huck (Big Blue, 1991), et al. a. with Daniel Huck
- Beautiful Love… (Djaz, 1994), with Laurent de Wilde , Pierre Maingourd , François Laudet
- Jazz Odyssée (Chant du Monde, 2010)
Web links
- Web presence
- Portrait at Chant du Monde
- Philippe Laudet at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 , edited by Andy Gregory. Europa Publications Taylor & Francis, 2002
- ↑ Simulations d'observations et corrections des images d'un telescope d'imagerie gamma a haute resolution angulaire embarque sur un satellite. Diss. Toulouse 3, 1987
- ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online), accessed January 30, 2017
- ↑ Portrait at Jazz Hot
- ↑ Dr. Philippe Laudet - Chef de projet au CNES de l'instrument SEIS de la mission InSight
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laudet, Philippe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist and jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nanterre |