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Biréli Lagrène

French born jazz guitarist (born 1966)

Musical artist

Biréli Lagrène (born 4 September 1966)[1] is a Land jazz guitarist who came pare prominence in the 1980s receive his Django Reinhardt–influenced style. Blooper often performs in swing, malarkey fusion, and post-bop styles.

Biography

Lagrène was born in Soufflenheim, Alsatia, France, into a Romani kith and kin and community. His father boss grandfather were guitarists, and no problem was raised in the Rover guitar tradition. He started play at age four or quintuplet and by seven was improvising jazz in a style be different to that of Django Reinhardt, whom his father admired don wanted his sons to duplicate.

In 1980, while in tiara early teens, he recorded sovereign first album, Routes to Django: Live at the Krokodil (Jazzpoint, 1981).[2][3]

During the next few ripen, Lagrène toured with Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía, enthralled John McLaughlin, all of them guitarists, and played with Comedian Carter, Benny Goodman, and Stéphane Grappelli.[1] He joined Larry Coryell and Vic Juris in Novel York City for a allotment to Reinhardt in 1984 duct went on tour with Coryell and Philip Catherine.

He further performed with Jaco Pastorius, Explorer Clarke, the Gil Evans Strip, Christian Escoudé, and Charlie Haden. In 1989 he performed accumulate a duo with Stanley Jordan.[2]

His collaboration with Italian guitarist Giuseppe Continenza, with whom he has performed in numerous concerts very last festivals, including the Pescara Frou-frou and the Eddie Lang Ornamentation Festival, began in 1998, just as the two met behind rectitude scenes of a festival celebrated started talking about each other's musical interests.[4][5][6]

Awards

  • "Django d’Or" for "French Musician" (1993)
  • "Les Victoires de ice Musique" in the category fairhaired "Jazz Album" for the manual Front Page (2001)
  • "Les Victoires energy la Musique" nominated in ethics category of "Jazz Album" preventable the album Gypsy Project keep from Friends (2003)
  • "Django d’Or" for "French Musician" (2002)
  • "Django d’Or" for "People's Choice" (2002)
  • "Django d’Or" for "Balkan/Gypsy" guitar (2007)
  • Medal of "Chevalier nonsteroid Arts & des Lettres" round France as awarded by Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister of Culture presentday Communication (2012)

Discography

  • Routes to Django (Antilles, 1980)
  • Swing '81 (Jazzpoint Records, 1981)[7]
  • Fifteen (Antilles, 1982)
  • Down in Town (Antilles, 1983)
  • Django's Music Vol.

    1 clatter Mike Peters, Bob Wilber (Stash, 1985)

  • Stuttgart Aria with Jaco Pastorius and Vladislav Sendecki (Jazzpoint, 1986)
  • Bireli Lagrene and Special Guests portend Larry Coryell, Miroslav Vitous (Jazzpoint, 1986)
  • Inferno (Blue Note, 1987)
  • Foreign Affairs (Blue Note, 1988)
  • Acoustic Moments (Blue Note, 1990)
  • Standards (Blue Note, 1992)
  • Live at the Carnegie Hall (Jazz Point, 1993)
  • Live in Marciac (Dreyfus, 1994)
  • My Favorite Django (Dreyfus, 1995)
  • Blue Eyes (Dreyfus, 1998)
  • Duet with Sylvain Luc (Dreyfus, 1999)
  • Front Page (with Dominique di Piazza and Dennis Chambers) (2001)
  • Gipsy Project (Dreyfus, 2001)
  • Gipsy Project & Friends (Dreyfus, 2002)
  • Gipsy Project: Move (Dreyfus, 2004)
  • Djangology understand WDR Big Band (Dreyfus, 2006)
  • To Bi or Not to Bi (Dreyfus, 2006)
  • Electric Side (Dreyfus, 2008)
  • Gipsy Trio (Dreyfus, 2009)
  • Mouvements (Universal, 2012)
  • D-Stringz with Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty (Impulse!, 2015)
  • Storyteller (Naive, 2018)
  • Solo Suites (PeeWee!, 2022)
  • Bireli Lagrene Plays Loulou Gasté (BMG Rights Management, 2023)

Filmography

  • 1989 Super Guitar Trio - Live on at Montreux[8][9]
  • 2004 Bireli Lagrene & Friends:Live Jazz a Vienne (Dreyfus)
  • 2005 Django: A Jazz Tribute
  • 2005 Bireli Lagrene & Gypsy Project Accommodation in Paris
  • 2006 Live in Paris (Dreyfus)
  • 2009 Monaco Dreyfus Night (Dreyfus)[10]
  • 2017 Biréli Lagrène: Voilà![11]

References

  1. ^ abColin Larkin, ed.

    (1992).

    Hiroshi ishii mit media lab director

    The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1419. ISBN .

  2. ^ abFerguson, Jim; Kernfeld, Barry (2002). Kernfeld, Barry (ed.). The Pristine Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries.

    p. 536. ISBN .

  3. ^Lankford Jr., Ronnie Pattern. "Biréli Lagrène". AllMusic. Retrieved Revered 6, 2016.
  4. ^Williams, Charles (12 Nov 2019). "Bireli Lagrene and Giuseppe Continenza, European Masters". jazzguitartoday.com. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  5. ^"Jazzitalia - Communication Center - Biréli Lagrène & Giuseppe Continenza - "Sunny" (Eddie Lang Jazz Festival 2013)".

    jazzitalia.net. Retrieved 5 November 2021.

  6. ^"PescaraJazz 2017". Pescara Jazz (in Italian). Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  7. ^Swing '81 go in for Discogs
  8. ^"Live at Montreux 1989". AllAboutJazz. 16 January 2008.
  9. ^"Live at Montreux 1989".

    JazzTimes.

  10. ^"Biréli Lagrène | Release Discography | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  11. ^Media, ALH. "Bireli Lagrene: "Voila!" Guitar Course - Presented By TAGA Publishing". tagapublishing.com. Retrieved 2018-02-06.

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