Stéphane Belmondo
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Stephane Belmondo is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France....
, Var, July 8, 1967) is a French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn
Flugelhorn
The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
ist and drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
. Including recordings made with his brother Lionel Belmondo and Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef
Dr. Yusef Lateef is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he is known for...
, he won the best French album category (L'Album français de l'année) in 2003, 2004 and 2005, and the best artist award (L'Artiste ou la Formation instrumentale française de l'année) in 2003 and 2004,. in the French Victoires du Jazz awards. Along with his brother he is noted for tribute albums that involve the musicians being honored.
Biography
The Belmondo family say music came naturally to Stephane, before he could even speak. His father, Yvan, was proud of his son, but inflexible when it came down to his musical education. As a former professionalProfessional
A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and commissioned military officers. Today, the term is applied to estate agents, surveyors , environmental scientists,...
saxophonist, he understood the necessity of discipline and practicing music requires. He was able to instill these values into his son from an early age and Belmondo quickly adopted these principles. He first started with drums and percussion instruments at the age of 6, accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
at 8, then he chose to take up the trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
at ten years old. Belmondo studied accordion and cornet
Cornet
The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B. It is not related to the renaissance and early baroque cornett or cornetto.-History:The cornet was...
at the Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence
Aix , or Aix-en-Provence to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a city-commune in southern France, some north of Marseille. It is in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, of which it is a subprefecture. The population of Aix is...
Conservatory of Music, before being admitted to the trumpet class of the Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
Conservatory at 16. Belmondo was 14 when he finally took the stage with his accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
joining the big band led by his father and brother Lionel who played saxophone
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
. When he and his brother started a quintet
Quintet
A quintet is a group containing five members.It is commonly associated with musical groups, such as a string quintet, or a group of five singers, but can be applied to any situation where five similar or related objects are considered a single unit....
, Belmondo was 15 years old.
By 1986, Belmondo had already won his first prize for trumpet in Marseille. When he arrived Paris to pursue his career, he met pianist René Urtreger
René Urtreger
-Biography:Urtreger was born in Paris and began his piano studies at the age of four, studying privately first, and then at the Conservatory. He studied with an orientation toward jazz, playing in a small Parisian club, the "Sully d' Auteil." Conducted by Hubert Damisch, the Sully boasted an...
, who gave him many opportunities to share the stage, notably with famed double-bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
- Discography :* My Name Is Albert Ayler 1963 * Kirk in Copenhagen 1963 * Ben Webster in Denmark 1965-1971 Live at Danish Radio studios, Jazzhus Montmartre and Odd Fellow Palæet - Universal Music Denmark*One Flight Up 1964 *Sunday Walk 1969 - Discography :* My Name Is Albert Ayler 1963 (with...
. He also worked with Pierre Michelot
Pierre Michelot
Pierre Michelot was a French bebop and hard bop double bass player.Born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, Michelot studied piano from 1936 until 1938, but switched to playing bass at the age of sixteen...
and Al Levitt
Al Levitt
Alan "Al" Levitt was an American jazz drummer.-Education:Levitt studied piano with Moses Chusids in high school, and studied drums under Irv Kluger in 1949-50.-Accompanied:...
which were among many others.
In 1987, shortly after his arrival in Paris, he joined Laurent Cugny’s big band, Lumière. Cugny had convinced arranger Gil Evans
Gil Evans
Gil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
to come to France and work on the orchestra’s repertoire. The collaboration resulted in two albums Rhythm-A-Ning and a European tour where Belmondo also recorded and performed with.
From 1987 to 1990, he played with pianist Kirk Lightsey
Kirk Lightsey
Kirkland "Kirk" Lightsey is an American jazz pianist.Lightsey had piano instruction from age five and studied piano and clarinet through high school. After service in the Army, Lightsey worked in Detroit and California in the 1960s as an accompanist to singers...
’s quartet
Quartet
In music, a quartet is a method of instrumentation , used to perform a musical composition, and consisting of four parts.-Western art music:...
and bassist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
Pierre Boussaguet’s quintet
Quintet
A quintet is a group containing five members.It is commonly associated with musical groups, such as a string quintet, or a group of five singers, but can be applied to any situation where five similar or related objects are considered a single unit....
, which his brother and Jacky Terrasson
Jacky Terrasson
Jacques-Laurent Terrasson is a jazz pianist better known as Jacky Terrasson.He was born in Germany, but his mother was American and his father French. He studied at the Berklee College of Music before playing in Chicago and New York City clubs. He gained increased attention on winning the 1993...
was also featured. Working with Boussaguet led to the release of an album called Jazz aux Remparts featuring one of Belmondo's idols, the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
trumpeter Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell is a renowned American post-bop jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and arranger.-Biography:Tom Harrell was born in Urbana, Illinois but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area at the age of five. He started playing trumpet at eight and within five years, started playing gigs with...
.
Belmondo joined Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand
Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...
’s big orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
and took part in 1992 concert
Concert
A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...
at the Olympia where Legrand and Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands....
appeared together for the first time. In 1992 he participated in the album Legrand/Grappelli with Legrand and Grapelli. He toured with them around the world.
In 1994 Belmondo played in Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater is an American Jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater...
's trio and recorded an album, Love and Peace with them in 1995, which featured Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith (musician)
Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B-3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument...
.
In the same year Belmondo moved to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. He continued touring with Dee Dee Bridgewater in the US, including shows at the Newport Festival
Newport Festival
-Rhode Island:* Newport Jazz Festival , a music festival held every August* Newport Folk Festival , an American annual folk-oriented music festival* Newport Music Festival , a classical music festival...
and the Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
. During his stay in New York, he played with many musicians, including Al Foster
Al Foster
Al Foster is an American jazz drummer. Foster played with Miles Davis's large funk fusion group in the 70s, was one of the few people to have contact with Miles during his retirement, and was also part of his comeback album The Man With the Horn of 1981...
, Mark Turner
Mark Turner
Mark Turner may refer to:*Mark Turner *Mark Turner *Mark Turner *Mark Turner *Mark Turner , jazz saxophonist...
, Lew Tabackin
Lew Tabackin
Lew Tabackin is a jazz flautist and a tenor saxophonist. He is married to Toshiko Akiyoshi, who is a jazz pianist and a composer/arranger.-Biography:...
, Donald Brown
Donald Brown
Donald E. Brown is an American professor of anthropology . He worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his theoretical work regarding the existence, characteristics and relevance of universals of human nature...
and Franck Amsallem
Franck Amsallem
Franck Amsallem is a French jazz pianist, composer and also singer. He was born in 1961 in Oran, then in French Algeria, but grew up in Nice, France.He started learning the piano at age 7 and also took up the classical saxophone at the local conservatory...
. He recorded with pianist Donald Brown
Donald Brown
Donald E. Brown is an American professor of anthropology . He worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his theoretical work regarding the existence, characteristics and relevance of universals of human nature...
and his quartet performed at the Blue Note
Blue Note (jazz clubs)
The Blue Note is a jazz club and restaurant located at in Greenwich Village, New York City. Opened in 1981 by owner and founder Danny Bensusan, the club is now considered one of the world's most famous jazz venues...
.
In 2002, in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of Chet Baker
Chet Baker
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...
’s death, Belmondo performed with Jean-Louis Rassinfosse and Philip Catherine
Philip Catherine
Philip Catherine is a Belgian jazz guitarist.-Biography:He was born in London from an English mother and Belgian father....
, two of Baker’s former partners.
Returning to Paris, he recorded his first solo album
Solo album
A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...
Wonderland in 2004, interpreting a collection of Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
songs. This album won Belmondo two Victoires du Jazz awards in France, in 2005.
Belmondo met the saxophone and flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
player Yusef Lateef
Yusef Lateef
Dr. Yusef Lateef is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he is known for...
and they together made an album called Influence (2005). Shortly after this, his group, including Yusef Lateef, toured Europe and around the world until 2008.
In 2008 Belmondo recorded with the great Brazilian singer, Milton Nascimento
Milton Nascimento
-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
and they toured together.
Belmondo was also part of the development of new bugle
Bugle
Bugle is a brass musical instrument.Bugle may also refer to:* Contrabass bugle, lowest-pitched instrument in the drum and bugle corps hornline* Bugle , common names of flowering plant genus Ajuga...
and trumpet models which are marketed under the name “Concept TT” by the instrument maker Selmer
The Selmer Company
Henri Selmer Paris company is a French family-owned enterprise, manufacturer of musical instruments based in Paris, France in 1885. It is known for its high-quality woodwind and brass instruments, especially saxophones, clarinets and trumpets...
.
Discography
- As leader (or co-leader)
- 2011 : Stephane Belmondo, "The Same As It Never Was Before" (Verve/Universal)
- 2009 : Belmondo Quintet, "Infinity Live" (B-Flat recordings/Discograph)
- 2008 : Belmondo & Milton NascimentoMilton Nascimento-Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...
(B-Flat recordings/Discograph) - 2005 : Belmondo & Yusef LateefYusef LateefDr. Yusef Lateef is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he is known for...
, Influence (B-Flat recordings/Discograph)-Les Victoires du Jazz 2006 : meilleur album français. - 2004 : Stephane Belmondo, Wonderland (B-Flat recordings/Discograph)-Les Victoires du Jazz 2005 : meilleur album français ; meilleur artiste.
- 2003 : Belmondo, Hymne au Soleil (B-Flat recordings/Discograph)-Les Victoires du Jazz 2004 : meilleur album français; meilleur artiste; prix du public.
- 2000 : Belmondo Quintet, Live au Plana (Plana Prod)
- 2000 : Stephane Belmondo & Creative Art Trio, Endless Love (C.A.E Vulkan Records)
- 1999 : Belmondo Quintet, Infinity (Shaï records)
- 1999 : Stephane Belmondo et Sylvain LucSylvain LucSylvain Luc is a French jazz guitarist. His musicality, his great sense of improvisation and his virtuosity, and unique, technical abilities with the guitar have earned him high praises from all around the world, including from many musicians he has played with...
, Ameskery (Shaï records) - 1994 : Belmondo Quintet, For all friends (Challenge) - (Réf : CHR70016)-Prix Django Reinhardt de l'Académie du jazz : meilleur musicien français.
- 1993 : Lionel et Stephane Belmondo, Quintet, Jazz à Reims (auto-production)
- As sideman
- 2010 : Yael NaimYael NaimYael Naïm , is a French-Israeli singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single "New Soul" was used by Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100.-Biography:Yael Naïm was born in Paris, France to Tunisian Jewish...
, "She was a boy" (Tôt ou Tard) - 2009 : Aldo RomanoAldo RomanoAldo Romano is a jazz drummer. He also started a rock group in 1971.-Biography:He moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he was playing guitar and drums professionally in Paris, but his career gained notice when he started working with Don Cherry in 1963. He recorded with Steve Lacy and...
, "Origine" (Dreyfus Jazz) - 2009 : Daniel Mille, "L'attente" (Universal Music France)
- 2009 : Avishai Cohen, "Aurora" (Blue Note-EMI Music France)
- 2008 : François Théberge Group with Lee Konitz, "Soliloque" (Cristal Records)
- 2008 : Boulou & Elios Ferré, "Brothers to Brothers" (Nocturne)
- 2008 : Étienne M'Bappé, "Su La Take" (O+ Evolution-EMI)
- 2008 : Omar SosaOmar SosaOmar Sosa is a composer, bandleader, and jazz pianist.-Biography:Sosa began studying marimba at age eight, then switched to piano at the Escuela Nacional de Musica in Havana, where he studied jazz. Sosa moved to Quito, Ecuador, in 1993, then San Francisco, California, in 1995...
, "Afreecanos" (Otá Records/Harmonia Mundi) - 2008 : Ji Mob, "Power to the people" (Comet Records-Nocturne)
- 2008 : Valery Graschaire, "Finally" (Cristal Records)
- 2007 : Samy Thiebault, "Gaya Scienza" (B-Flat recordings/Discograph)
- 2007 : Dré Pallemaerts, "Pan Harmonie" (B-Flat recordings/Discograph)
- 2007 : Catia Werneck, "Catia canta Jobim" (Poission Heads)
- 2006 : Boulou & Elios Ferré, "Live in Montpellier" (Le Chant du Monde-Harmonia Mundi)
- 2006 : Éric Legnini, "Big Boogaloo" (Label Bleu)
- 2006 : Stéphane Spira, "First Page" (BeeJazz Records) - (Réf : BEE012)
- 2005 : Sophie Alour, "Insulaire" (Nocturne) - (Réf : NTCD381 - NT098)
- 2005 : Boulou & Elios Ferré, "Parisian Passion" (BeeJazz Records-Abeille Music) - (Réf : BEE015)
- 2005 : Franck AmsallemFranck AmsallemFranck Amsallem is a French jazz pianist, composer and also singer. He was born in 1961 in Oran, then in French Algeria, but grew up in Nice, France.He started learning the piano at age 7 and also took up the classical saxophone at the local conservatory...
, "A week in Paris-A tribute to stayhorn" (Nocturne) - (Réf : NTCD383) - 2005 : Kayna SametKayna SametKayna Samet is a French singer of soul, hip-hop and R&B, born in 1980 in Nice.- Childhood :Born Malika Zoubir in Nice, France, in 1980, to Algerian parents, she grew up outside of neighbourhoods typical of Nice, by the will of her mother who refused to live in the ghetto.During her childhood her...
, "Entre Deux Je" (Barclay-Universal) - 2005 : Nu Tropic, "Você Sabe" (Nocturne)
- 2005 : PsychoPsychoPsycho is a suspense novel by Robert Bloch. It was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock's seminal 1960 film of the same name.-Plot:Norman Bates is a middle-aged bachelor who is dominated by his mother, a mean-tempered, puritanical old woman who forbids him to have a life away from her...
, "There must be a revolution somewhere" (Mind & Fat Records) - 2005 : Doctor L, "The real thing" (Mind & Fat Records)
- 2005 : Doctor L, "Not your Frequency" (Mind & Fat Records)
- 2005 : Jefferson, "Sweet Rendez Vous" (Nocturne)
- 2004 : Daniel Mille, "Après la pluie" (Universal Music France)
- 2004 : Carine Bonnefoy, "Something to change" (Cristal Records)
- 2004 : Christophe Dal Sasso, "Ouverture" (Nocturne) - (Réf : NTCD351)
- 2004 : Claude NougaroClaude NougaroClaude Nougaro was a French songwriter and singer.Claude Nougaro was born in Toulouse to a respected French opera singer, Pierre Nougaro, and an Italian piano teacher, Liette Tellini. He was raised by his grandparents in Toulouse where he heard Glenn Miller, Édith Piaf and Louis Armstrong on the...
, "La Note Bleue" (Blue Note) - 2004 : L’Âme des Poètes, "Prénoms d’Amour" (Sowarex asbl)
- 2003 : François Théberge, "Elénar" (Effendi)
- 2003 : Jean-Louis MuratJean-Louis MuratNot to be confused with Jean-Paul MaratJean-Louis Murat is the pseudonym of the French singer / songwriter Jean-Louis Bergheaud. He spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Murat-le-Quaire.- Albums :...
, "Lilith" (Labels) - 2003 : Doctor L, "Monkey Dizzyness" (Fat Recordings)
- 2002 : Olivier Témime, "Saï Saï Saï" (Elabeth)
- 2002 : François Théberge 5 featuring Lee, "Music of Konitz" (Effendi)
- 2001 : Amalgam-Olivier Renne Quintet, “Osiris” (Shaï records)
- 2000 : Jean-Marc Jafet, "Douceur Lunaire" (RDC Records/Mélodie)
- 1999 : André Ceccarelli 4tet+, "61:32" (RCA Victor-BMG France)
- 1999 : Chic Hot, "Satyagraha" (Lusafrica/Musisoft)
- 1999 : Andy Emler, "Sombritude" (Casa/Disques Concord)
- 1999 : François Théberge and The Medium Band, (Round Records)
- 1999 : Donald BrownDonald BrownDonald E. Brown is an American professor of anthropology . He worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his theoretical work regarding the existence, characteristics and relevance of universals of human nature...
, "Enchanté" (Space Time Records) - 1998 : Frédéric Galliano Electronic Sextet, "Live Infinis" (F-Com)
- 1998 : Manu Pekar & Big Band Passages featuring Dave LiebmanDave LiebmanDave Liebman is an American saxophonist and flautist. In June 2010, he received a NEA Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.-Biography:...
, "New Songs" (Gorgone Productions) - 1997 : François Théberge, "Asteur" (Lazer Prod)
- 1997 : Frédéric Galliano, "Espaces Baroques" (F-Com)
- 1995 : Gilles Naturel, "Naturel" (JMS)
- 1995 : Michel LegrandMichel LegrandMichel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...
Big Band (Verve-Universal) - 1995 : Dee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee BridgewaterDee Dee Bridgewater is an American Jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater...
, "Love and peace, A Tribute to Horace SilverHorace SilverHorace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....
" (Verve) - (Réf : 527 470-2) - 1994 : ONJ dirigé par Laurent Cugny, "Yesternow" (Verve-Polygram)
- 1994 : Alain BashungAlain BashungAlain Bashung was a French singer, songwriter and actor.- Youth :Alain Bashung was the son of a Breton factory worker and French Kabyle father, whom he never knew. His mother remarried, and at the age of one, Bashung was sent to Strasbourg to live with his new stepfather's parents...
"Chaterton" (Barclay) - 1994 : Jean Marc Jafet, "Agora" (JMS)
- 1994 : Jean-Loup Longnon, "Cyclades" (JMS)
- 1994 : Peter KingsberyPeter KingsberyPeter Kingsbery is an American singer songwriter who cofounded the band Cock Robin in the 1980s. He grew up in Austin where he studied classical music...
, “Once in a million” (Barclay) - 1994 : Marcel AzzolaMarcel AzzolaMarcel Azzola is a French accordionist. During his career he has accompanied many of the most famous French singers of his era, including Boris Vian, Édith Piaf, Tino Rossi, Yves Montand, Juliette Gréco, Jean Sablon, Francis Lemarque, Gilbert Bécaud, and notably Jacques Brel Marcel Azzola (born...
, "L'Accordéoniste, Hommage à Édith Piaf" (Verve-Polygram) - 1994 : Michel Precastelli, "Marazul" (CC Production/Harmonia Mundi)
- 1993 : Simon Goubert, "Couleurs de peaux" (Seventh Records) - (Réf : SEVENTH A XII)
- 1993 : Jean-Michel PilcJean-Michel PilcJean-Michel Pilc is a self-taught French-born jazz pianist currently residing in New York. His technical ability has drawn comparisons to Michel Petrucciani, McCoy Tyner, and Cecil Taylor. Of particular note is Pilc's left-hand technique, which provides an almost ambidextrous approach to the...
, "Big one" (EMP) - 1993 : Elisabeth Kontomanou (EMP)
- 1993 : Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumière, "Dromesko" (EmArcy-Polygram)
- 1992 : Michel Legrand et Stéphane GrappelliStéphane GrappelliStéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands....
, "Legrand/Grappelli" (Verve-Polygram) - 1991 : Pierre Boussaguet 5tet Special Guest Tom HarrellTom HarrellTom Harrell is a renowned American post-bop jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and arranger.-Biography:Tom Harrell was born in Urbana, Illinois but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area at the age of five. He started playing trumpet at eight and within five years, started playing gigs with...
(Jazz aux Remparts) - 1991 : Abus, "Manège" (Musiclip)
- 1990 : Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumière, "Santander" (EmArcy-Polygram)
- 1989 : Marcel ZaniniMarcel ZaniniMarcel Zanini , born September 9, 1923 in Istanbul, Turkey is a French jazz musician. His family arrived in Marseille in 1930 and settled there. He began learning the clarinet in 1942. He joined the orchestra of Leo Missir in 1946. He founded his first band in the early 1950s. He left for the...
featuring Sam Woodyard, "Patchwork" (That's Jazz) - 1989 : Gil EvansGil EvansGil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States...
et Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumière, "Golden hair" (EmArcy-Polygram) - 1988 : Gil Evans et Laurent Cugny Big Band Lumière, "Rhythm a ning" (EmArcy-Polygram)
- 2010 : Yael Naim
- Compilations :
- 1989 : Johnny Walker & Jazz, Live in Paris