Claude Barthélémy

b. 1956, Paris, France. A self-taught musician, Barthélémy used your guitar in 1970 but continued to be undecided on the career for a few years, moving between music and mathematics. Past due in 1978, his brain was composed when he was employed by Michel Website. Barthélémy had resided a suburban child years and was deeply suffering from the musical noises of his formative years, notably jazz rock and roll, folk punk and atonal funk, with a continuing leaning towards avant garde in lots of musical designs. After Website he played in a variety of rings, frequently as creator and driving pressure, stylistically within the jazz rock and roll fusion genre well-known within the 70s. These rings included d’Œdipe, the Outfit Moderne in Frankfurt, the Orchestre Country wide Des Pays off De Loire, Ars Nova, as well as the Orchestre De Lille. In 1987, he drew on the wealthy pool of Western jazz talent to create the Orchestre Country wide De Jazz (ONJ), saving with this music group from 1989-91. He worked well in a number of creative settings, including associated Malian vocalist Nahawa Dumbia, carrying out incidental music for Shakespeare (with Gilles Bouillon), within the plastic material arts (with Peter Sinclair and Kiki Picasso), and ballet. More than an interval of 2 decades he frequently worked with a normal trio, others becoming Jean-Luc Ponthieux (bass) and Manuel Denizet (drums). Among additional musical companions of these years are Daunik Lazro (saxophone), Claude Tchamitchian (bass), and Christophe Marguet (drums). In the first 00s, Barthélémy done a new recording with dad and child Jacques Mahieux (drums) and Nicolas Mahieux (bass), Didier Ithursarry (accordion), and Frank Tortiller (vibraphone). On Sereine he was also became a member of by guests Elise Caron (tone of voice), Médéric Collignon (cornet/tone of voice), Philippe Lemoine (saxophones), Jean-Louis Pommier (trombone), and Bojan Z. (keyboards). In November 2002, Barthélémy, who also takes on oud and bouzouki, created his second ONJ composing many brand-new functions for the event. Being a guitarist, Barthélémy can be an extremely fleet participant, he continues to be publicized because the globe’s fastest guitarist, and shows a penchant for musical and stylistic quotations, coming in contact with on performers from pop, rock and roll and jazz as different as Django Reinhardt, Steely Dan, Keith Richards, and John Coltrane, and classicists such as for example Pierre Boulez, François Couperin, and Anton Webern.