{"title":"François Jeanneau","description":"\u003cp style=\"font-size:16px\"\u003eFrançois Jeanneau was born in Paris in 1935, studied flute at the Paris Conservatory under René Leroy, earned a musicology teaching diploma at university in 1977, and taught himself saxophone because the music he wanted to play required it. He began playing professionally in 1960 at the Club Saint-Germain, worked in Jef Gilson's big band and in a sextet with pianist François Tusques before the free jazz wave that reshaped French jazz in the mid-1960s pulled him toward more experimental territory. His 1965 recording with Tusques, Michel Portal and Bernard Vitet on \"Free Jazz\" is among the earliest documents of French free jazz. The band Triangle, which he joined in the late 1960s, developed a jazz-rock fusion approach; the trio he formed with drummer Daniel Humair and bassist Henri Texier at the end of the 1970s moved back toward post-bop and open improvisation. Together the three recorded \"Humair Jeanneau Texier\" (Owl, 1979) and \"Akagera\" (JMS, 1980), and continued working together with updates through the Label Bleu years. His solo Owl albums, \"Techniques Douces\" (1976) and \"Ephémère\" (1977), document his most searching individual work. He won the Prix Django Reinhardt from the Académie du Jazz in 1980 and was appointed the founding director of the Orchestre National de Jazz in 1986, the first leader of France's state-funded national jazz orchestra. He composed for film and television alongside his performing career, wrote for the saxophone quartet Le Quatuor des Saxophones, and continued recording into the 2000s. He is still active, aged 90.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"humair-jeanneau-texier-akagera-jms-records-vinyl-lp","title":"Humair \/ Jeanneau \/ Texier - Akagera (JMS Records Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHumair \/ Jeanneau \/ Texier - \u003cem\u003eAkagera\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2021 Disques JMS Reissue (JMS 012)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Humair on drums, François Jeanneau on tenor and soprano saxophone, flute and lyricon, and Henri Texier on double bass, oud and percussion\u003c\/strong\u003e, the trio described by JMS as \"one of the founding moments of an aesthetic and an ethic of French jazz.\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposed as the soundtrack for a French television documentary\u003c\/strong\u003e about the animals of the Akagera region of Rwanda, directed by Gérard Vienne and broadcast in 19 episodes on national television, with nine tracks that move between African-influenced modal jazz, Middle Eastern textures and European improvisation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFirst vinyl reissue of a 1980 recording\u003c\/strong\u003e on the French JMS label, with Gordon Beck guesting on piano for one track.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaniel Humair, François Jeanneau and Henri Texier were three of the most important jazz musicians in France by the time they formed a trio in the late 1970s. Humair, a Swiss-French drummer who had played with Dexter Gordon, Phil Woods, Eric Dolphy and Chet Baker during their various European residencies, is also an abstract painter whose visual work has been exhibited alongside his music. Jeanneau, a Parisian saxophonist, went on to co-found and direct the Orchestre National de Jazz in 1986. Texier, a Parisian double bassist, became one of the most recorded European jazz musicians through decades of work on the Label Bleu catalogue. When they recorded \u003cem\u003eAkagera\u003c\/em\u003e at CBS Studios in Paris across October and November 1980, the commission came from outside jazz: the director Gérard Vienne needed a score for a wildlife documentary about the animals of the Akagera region of Rwanda, at the source of the Nile. The trio treated the assignment as an album rather than a backing track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe nine pieces are short by free-jazz standards, most running between two and five minutes, but the range they cover in that time is striking. Texier plays oud alongside his double bass, bringing a Middle Eastern tonality into \"Arfia\" and \"Maghreb De Canard.\" Humair plays a Syntoba, a percussion-activated electronic instrument, adding a synthetic layer to his drum work. Jeanneau plays lyricon, an early wind-driven synthesiser, alongside his tenor and soprano saxophones and flute, and the original pressing credits also list bass clarinet, an Oberheim Polyphonique 8 and an ARP 2600 among his instruments. All three compose: \"Akagera\" and \"Akagera II\" are group compositions, \"Rampoon\" and \"Arfia\" are Jeanneau's, \"Nebbia\" is Texier's with Gordon Beck guesting on piano, and \"Mongol Fier\" is Humair's. Jean-Marie Salhani produced. This is the 2021 JMS reissue (JMS 012), the first vinyl repress since the original 1980 pressing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Disques JMS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44190981128251,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/download_e2b4186d-af19-4fd0-b727-5e7f3839d794.jpg?v=1789360528"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/francois-jeanneau.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}