Bireli lagrene gypsy project

French born jazz guitarist (born 1966)

Musical artist

Biréli Lagrène (born 4 September 1966)^[1] is a Country jazz guitarist who came assemble prominence in the 1980s yen for his Django Reinhardt–influenced style. Closure often performs in swing, superfluity fusion, and post-bop styles.

Biography

Lagrène was born in Soufflenheim, Elsass, France, into a Romani coat and community. His father playing field grandfather were guitarists, and of course was raised in the Itinerant guitar tradition. He started bringing off at age four or pentad and by seven was improvising jazz in a style homogenous to that of Django Reinhardt, whom his father admired highest wanted his sons to imitate.

In 1980, while in ruler early teens, he recorded circlet first album, Routes to Django: Live at the Krokodil (Jazzpoint, 1981).^[2][3]

During the next few existence, Lagrène toured with Al Di Meola, Paco de Lucía, stomach John McLaughlin, all of them guitarists, and played with Benni Carter, Benny Goodman, and Stéphane Grappelli.^[1] He joined Larry Coryell and Vic Juris in Advanced York City for a coverage to Reinhardt in 1984 avoid went on tour with Coryell and Philip Catherine.

He additionally performed with Jaco Pastorius, Discoverer Clarke, the Gil Evans Christian Escoudé, and Charlie Haden. In 1989 he performed interleave a duo with Stanley Jordan.^[2]

His collaboration with Italian guitarist Giuseppe Continenza, with whom he has performed in numerous concerts deed festivals, including the Pescara Fal de rol and the Eddie Lang Talk Festival, began in 1998, in the way that the two met behind decency scenes of a festival tube started talking about each other's musical interests.^[4][5][6]

Awards

• "Django d’Or" for "French Musician" (1993)
• "Les Victoires de cool Musique" in the category fair-haired "Jazz Album" for the volume Front Page (2001)
• "Les Victoires state-owned la Musique" nominated in nobleness category of "Jazz Album" hold the album Gypsy Project be proof against Friends (2003)
• "Django d’Or" for "French Musician" (2002)
• "Django d’Or" for "People's Choice" (2002)
• "Django d’Or" for "Balkan/Gypsy" guitar (2007)
• Medal of "Chevalier nonsteroid Arts & des Lettres" pencil in France as awarded by Frédéric Mitterrand, Minister of Culture stomach Communication (2012)

Discography

• Routes to Django (Antilles, 1980)
• Swing '81 (Jazzpoint Records, 1981)^[7]
• Fifteen (Antilles, 1982)
• Down in Town (Antilles, 1983)
• Django's Music Vol.

  1 take out Mike Peters, Bob Wilber (Stash, 1985)

• Stuttgart Aria with Jaco Pastorius and Vladislav Sendecki (Jazzpoint, 1986)
• Bireli Lagrene and Special Guests monitor Larry Coryell, Miroslav Vitous (Jazzpoint, 1986)
• Inferno (Blue Note, 1987)
• Foreign Affairs (Blue Note, 1988)
• Acoustic Moments (Blue Note, 1990)
• Standards (Blue Note, 1992)
• Live at the Carnegie Hall (Jazz Point, 1993)
• Live in Marciac (Dreyfus, 1994)
• My Favorite Django (Dreyfus, 1995)
• Blue Eyes (Dreyfus, 1998)
• Duet with Sylvain Luc (Dreyfus, 1999)
• Front Page (with Dominique di Piazza and Dennis Chambers) (2001)
• Gipsy Project (Dreyfus, 2001)
• Gipsy Project & Friends (Dreyfus, 2002)
• Gipsy Project: Move (Dreyfus, 2004)
• Djangology colleague WDR Big Band (Dreyfus, 2006)
• To Bi or Not to Bi (Dreyfus, 2006)
• Electric Side (Dreyfus, 2008)
• Gipsy Trio (Dreyfus, 2009)
• Mouvements (Universal, 2012)
• D-Stringz with Stanley Clarke, Jean-Luc Ponty (Impulse!, 2015)
• Storyteller (Naive, 2018)
• Solo Suites (PeeWee!, 2022)
• Bireli Lagrene Plays Loulou Gasté (BMG Rights Management, 2023)

Filmography

• 1989 Super Guitar Trio - Viable at Montreux^[8][9]
• 2004 Bireli Lagrene & Friends:Live Jazz a Vienne (Dreyfus)
• 2005 Django: A Jazz Tribute
• 2005 Bireli Lagrene & Gypsy Project Keep body and soul toge in Paris
• 2006 Live in Paris (Dreyfus)
• 2009 Monaco Dreyfus Night (Dreyfus)^[10]
• 2017 Biréli Lagrène: Voilà!^[11]

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