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07-04-2005, 11:11 AM
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07-04-2005, 11:27 AM
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Commiserations anyway…
- Wil
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07-04-2005, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Wil Davis Was he really a south-paw, or is it just the way AMG decided to print the pic?
Commiserations anyway…
- Wil | Good eye Wil. Last time I saw him play was about two years ago. No south-paw, AMG blew it on that one. (And I'm going to remove the English translation of that press release cause it sucks.)
Pierre Michelot was THE reference when it came to jazz bazz in France, sort of our Ray Brown. |
07-05-2005, 09:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | And on any number of great recordings. The story goes that when they were starting filming ROUND MIDNIGHT, the "Paris" band was going to be all-American and all African-American until Dex pointed out that it would be historically inaccurate, since Pierre Michelot had been on the stand with pretty much ANY American expatriate in Paris during that period. So they changed to a white, French player...
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07-05-2005, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Ed Fuqua And on any number of great recordings. The story goes that when they were starting filming ROUND MIDNIGHT, the "Paris" band was going to be all-American and all African-American until Dex pointed out that it would be historically inaccurate, since Pierre Michelot had been on the stand with pretty much ANY American expatriate in Paris during that period. So they changed to a white, French player... | Good point Ed, and thanks to Our Man in Paris, Dexter for staitening up chichés.
I guess I should be the one telling stories here, but I must admit I'm kind of dry. I only saw Pierre Michelot perform once, about two or three years ago, at the Ile-Saint-Louis club named Le Franc Pinot. Alain Jean-Marie was on piano. Pierre was still playing pretty good, although his hay-days were obviously behind. He was playing resting back against the wall, actualy.
Lots of studio dates were organized with the American cats in Paris, in the 50's and 60's. These are being re-issued in economic CD series such as the Gitane lebel. You can browse the list in the allmusic.com page on Pierre Michelot, under "credits". There's a three-page-long list of titles were he is on as sideman. Just dig-in according to your favorite frontman. Enjoy. If there's such a thing as The Big Celestrial Band, Pierre Michelot must be taking turns and rock with a lot of cats he used to back-up in Paris. Surenaf.
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07-05-2005, 03:44 PM
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IMHO, the best record I have with Pierre Michelot is the live recording of Richard Galliano (accordion) "New Musette" CD.
R. Galliano tried (and IMHO succeeded) to refresh the "musette" french folk music style the same way A. Piazzola did with tango.
The musette became there a modern music with full of improvisations by talented musicians : P. Michelot, R. Galliano, Aldo Romano (drums) & the wonderful P. Catherine on guitar.
A lot of swinging waltz (the core of "musette") with a touch of tango...
P. Michelot took great solos on this recording as well as all the musicians & was with A. Romano the engine pushing the music to undiscovered spaces. He was a great.
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07-06-2005, 04:25 AM
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truly a great player, i've seen him twice, 1st time more than 10 years ago while i was touring in France, what a wonderful player..
guess i'll watch " round midnight" again tonight.
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07-06-2005, 05:21 AM
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07-06-2005, 07:15 AM
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Found this on the MSN homepage today....very surprised....usually they only post news related to J-Lo and Brad-Angela fluffy crap....
Jazz bassist Pierre Michelot dies at age 77; recorded with Miles Davis
04/07/2005 1:53:00 PM
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PARIS (AP) - Jazz bassist Pierre Michelot, who recorded with Miles Davis and arranged music for Chet Baker, has died, a fellow musician said Monday. He was 77.
The bass player, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, died in Paris on Sunday, said pianist Rene Urtreger, a member of Michelot's longtime jazz trio, HUM.
Michelot played with Davis on one of the great soundtracks of the 1950s, for Louis Malle's classic thriller Ascenseur pour L'Echafaud (Elevator to the Gallows). He recorded with artists including Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke and Django Reinhardt, and he arranged music for Baker's 1955-56 Barclay sessions in Paris.
Michelot was considered Europe's best jazz bassist in the second half of the 1950s, Urtreger said.
"He had a magnificent natural sound, clear, deep and true," Urtreger said. "It was a dream to play with him."
Originally trained in classical piano, Michelot learned bass as a teenager, then performed for American troops stationed in France after the end of the Second World War. He was highly sought-after for concerts by American musicians in Paris in the postwar years.
Michelot had a role in French director Bertrand Tavernier's 1986 film Round Midnight, about a musician on the skids in 1950s Paris. |
07-06-2005, 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by arto alho Is it Pierre who plays with Miles on "Elevator to the scaffold" soundtrack?
R2 | yes: credits , ascenseur pour l'échafaud [amg] |
07-06-2005, 02:07 PM
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08-29-2005, 01:02 PM
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Francois Rabbath informed me of Pierre's passing when I visited with him in Washington DC on August 5th. I had not heard about it and was shocked. According to Maestro Rabbath, Pierre was on a gig some time back and went into some kind of episode-- he became confused and forgot how to play. That's when they knew it was Alzheimer's disease.... |
08-29-2005, 04:47 PM
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08-29-2005, 05:35 PM
| | | | "Ascenseur" is one of my all time favorite jazz recordings. Great movie too.
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08-31-2005, 10:36 AM
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I saw Pierre last at a gig in the south of France about 6-7 years ago...a performance for charity with the Claude Bolling Trio. It was held in a magnificent old Castle near Bordeaux and they didn't need any amplification whatsoever in that big old corridor....he was a very fine player, very valid... |
08-31-2005, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by STRONGBOW ...very valid... | I'm sure that your divine approval would have made him feel more, well, 'actual'.
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08-31-2005, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Ray Parker I'm sure that your divine approval would have made him feel more, well, 'actual'. | 
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09-07-2005, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Ray Parker I'm sure that your divine approval would have made him feel more, well, 'actual'. | Gee....I suppose you're right, come to think of it....
At least Pierre never ****ed around with toy bass...
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09-07-2005, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by STRONGBOW I saw Pierre last at a gig in the south of France about 6-7 years ago...a performance for charity with the Claude Bolling Trio. very valid... | Not only valid, but he came real close to making Claude Bolling swing. 
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09-08-2005, 09:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Not only valid, but he came real close to making Claude Bolling swing. |
Well, I didn't want to come right out and say that, but that's my sentiment too....alot of those people over there do not know how to swing....
And moreover, a lot of those bassists over there don't get a sound. They have wonderful technique, their grasp of harmony is exceptional, they understand music theory perfectly, their grasp of the jazz language and repertoire is superb, they can hum, strum and double stop until the cows come home, their speed is incredible--- but they are playing up on their fingertips most of the time and they ain't got the sound. I'd say Michelot was an exception....NHOP another exception...but too many players over there don't know how to put meat on the strings....well, not for my ears, anyhow. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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