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Henri Texier

Henri Texier is a French jazz double bassist born in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his 1960s work with Don Cherry and for his 1980s band the Transatlantik Quartet, which featured Joe Lovano, Steve Swallow and Aldo Romano. Biography At the age of sixteen, fascinated by the double bass, Texier became a self-taught bassist, crediting Wilbur Ware most as an influence. He formed his first group with Georges Locatelli, Alain Tabar-Nouval, Jean-Max Albert and Klaus Hagel, inspired by the music of Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman. In spite of an almost absence of recorded documents this group represents one of the very first expressions of free jazz in France ( 1965 ). In 1967 he joined a group led by Jef Gilson where he met Bernard Vitet, Jean-Louis Chautemps, François Jeanneau, Stéphane Vilar, Jean-Luc Ponty..

Chance

By HENRI TEXIER

Label: Label Bleu
Released: 2020
Track listing: Cinecitta; Jungle Jig; Simone Et Robert; Pina B.; Laniakea; Le Même Fleuve; Standing Horse; Chance.

Henri Texier: Chance

By FRIEDRICH KUNZMANN

French double bassist Henri Texier gained prominence back in the early 1960s, when he was working in Paris playing alongside American expatriates such as Bud Powell or Johnny Griffin. Over the years he has played with many international greats and proven a prolific composer as well as an unparalleled foundation on bass. Yet, one could argue ...

Enrico Rava: Five Decades of Jazz - The Co-leader and Sideman Part 1

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

After focusing on Enrico Rava's discography as leader, this week we explore his more than five decades of work as co-leader and sideman. The statuture of an artist can be measured not only through the albums s/he has recorded but also by the caliber of the musicians he has played with. There are not ...

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2019

By MARTIN LONGLEY

Belgrade Jazz Festival Dom Omladine / Kombank Dvorana Belgrade Serbia October 22-28, 2019 Reaching its 35th edition, the Belgrade Jazz Festival added extra shows at the beginning and end of its run, making up a full week, or eight days, if the opening dj night is ...

Albert Beger, Gianni Lenoci, Gabriel Ferrandini & More

By MAURICE HOGUE

It would be easy to riff on the title of bassist André Carvalho's new recording, The Garden of Earthly Delights, and come up with a very apt theme for this episode, something like Three Hours of Amazing Musical Colours, or The Crayola Effect. From Carvalho's release, based on Hieronymous Bosch's painting to the vibrant pastels of ...

Glenn Ferris Italian Quintet: Animal Love

By NERI POLLASTRI

Animal Love è il primo CD del quintetto italiano del trombonista statunitense Glenn Ferris, formazione che avevamo visto dal vivo lo scorso anno, in occasione di Girone Jazz, apprezzandone le qualità che adesso si possono ritrovare anche sulla documentazione registrata. Ferris è musicista con un rapporto privilegiato con l'Europa e con l'Italia: per anni ...

NY Free Quartet, Michael Gregory Jackson & Marc Jufer

By MAURICE HOGUE

There's a wide variety of great tunes this episode: Club D'Elf kicks it off with the title track to their latest live set, saxophonist Muriel Grossmann and her quartet acknowledge the musical and mystical paths of John Coltrane, the New York Free Quartet's Dream Time marks their return to releasing excellent work, and the very influential ...

Dorothy & George Jacob: Putting Bray On The Jazz Map

By IAN PATTERSON

Twenty years is old for a car and really old for a dog, but in jazz festival terms twenty years is perhaps not so long in the tooth. For a jazz festival twenty years means established, with the major storms of the early years weathered, a brand that people recognize and a heap of good will ...

Henri Texier: Sand Woman

By NERI POLLASTRI

Henry Texier, uno dei grandi protagonisti della musica europea, presenta qui una raccolta di suoi lavori già editi, ma risalenti perlopiù a molti anni orsono (in alcuni casi, anche quaranta) e qui reinterpretati dall'ultima edizione del suo quintetto che, accanto al figlio Sébastien Texier e al fido chitarrista Manu Codjia, vede in scena due giovani leve ...