Jacques BOLOGNÉSI
Born January 6, 1947 in Gap (France). Excellent desk trombonist and soloist, Jacques Bolognesi is also one of the architects of the comeback of the accordion and his acclimatization to jazz. He started learning it in the cobbler's shop of his father, place of rendezvous for Italian immigrants in his hometown. Student piano with the concert of Madeleine Valmalette, it follows a course at the Conservatory of Grenoble, and then he studied the trombone he discovered at the age of thirteen years at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris where he obtained a first prices in 1969 after a stint trainer Music by Air. Instrumentalist in high demand, it is for orchestras Louiss Eddy, Ivan Jullien, Martial Solal, etc.. while working in the orchestra of the Moulin Rouge. His career and decline for several years between a sideman important activity in the jazz, musician desk in many big bands, and studio musician for the variety and cinema. During a meeting, the West Indian trombonist Henri Guédon, discovering his hidden talent for the accordion, asked him to accompany him on this instrument. Subsequently, in 1987, Bolognesi is part of the NYO of Antoine Hervé who writes for him a piece of Paris Under the lofts, which gives him the opportunity to speak on his first instrument, he continued to play privately, "I worked the piano, accordion without stopping, as I maintained in secret. But in my head, it was over, the accordion. I must say that I did not dare say I was playing, I'd covered with ridicule. "This is the beginning of a return to first love, in the wake of Marcel Azzola and Richard Galliano, in memory of Gus precursors viewfinder and Jo Privat who married the jazz tradition and the accordion. Bolognesi and is one of the participants, in 1990, the recording of "Paris Musette", the album is emblematic of the rebirth of the "piano suspenders". While pursuing his career as a trombonist, big band leader Caravanserai (1989-1991), he soon developed an important activity when accordionist, especially through his association since 1994 with his colleague Francis Varis: First simple duo, BoloVaris became a trio in welcoming percussionist "Tiboum" Guignon or quintet with the addition of Marc Fosset on guitar and Jean-Luc Ponthieux on bass. Varis and Bolognesi recover up to date accordina (wind instrument with free reeds and has a keyboard-buttons, a hybrid of accordion and harmonica) forgotten since its invention in the thirties. From 1995 to 1999, it belongs to all Swiss Piano Seven as a pianist and accordionist. Musician of eclectic taste, it is found both with Cesaria Evora ("Cabo Verde", 2002) as Ute Lemper (Winter Journey, 2003), Patrice André Hodeir Caratini replaying ("Anna Livia Plurabelle ", 1993) that within the Dodecaband Martial Solal on the music of Ellington (2000), of Mico Nissim component of poems by Fernando Pessoa (1996) in concert with TubaTuba, the group of Michel Godard tuba players and Dave Bargeron. Since 2004 he is group leader of accordions and also comprising seven major accordionists of the capital from all horizons, indicating that, under the influence of musicians such as Jacques Bolognesi, this popular instrument and nomadic definitely earned its spurs and travel. Google machine translation: Jacques BOLOGNÉSI's original bio |