Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:53
Size: 165,5 MB
Art: Front
( 9:01) 1. Today, I Fell In Love
( 5:47) 2. Unknown Tower
( 6:35) 3. Is It Wonderland
( 9:55) 4. My Funny Valentine
( 7:05) 5. Le Bleu D'Hortense
( 9:23) 6. 429 Rue Paradis
(11:50) 7. I Fall In Love Too Easily
( 7:13) 8. So What
( 2:55) 9. The Theme
( 1:04) 10. Lola
Born in Brittany , Éric Le Lann moved to Paris in 1977, where he began his career as a professional musician. In 1979 he won the first prize in the national jazz competition of La Défense in Paris . At the age of 11, Eric Le Lann appeared on stage along with Bill Coleman , Claude Luter , and Stephane Grapelli , and was already playing with professional insurance. In April 1978, at the age of 20, he recorded his first LP, Jazz West Coast , Jazz Group of Brittany alongside Christian Hillion (saxophone), Pierre Goasguen (trombone), René Goae (piano), Gilles Gourmelon and Yvon Le Guen (bass) and Philippe Briand (drums), recorded at the Jazz Club La Potinière in Morgat (29) on the initiative of Gérard Le Bourdiec , manager of the establishment. Lann was influenced by Clifford Brown . He performed in René Urtreger's quintet alongside Jean-François Jenny-Clark , Aldo Romano and Jean Louis Chautemps , as well as with the quartet of Henri Texier with Bernard Lubat on drums . He also toured with Henri Salvador , as well as with Bernard Lavilliers (he appears in his live triple disc, Live Tour 80 ). He made a series of concerts with Pepper Adams in 1981 and then joined Patrice Caratini's onztet as well as Martial Solal's big band, where he participated in many jazz festivals in Europe ( The Hague , Prague , Pori , Montreux , Berlin ). He then went on to produce his own quartet with André Ceccarelli , Cesarius Alvim and Olivier Hutman in 1982. The following year he was awarded the Django-Reinhardt Prize by the Jazz Academy and participated in the European Radio Festival in Stockholm . He joins the trio Texier - Jeanneau - Humair during a tour in India . In 1985 he plays in the film of Bertrand Tavernier Around midnight with Dexter Gordon , Herbie Hancock and Billy Higgins . At the same time, he composed the music of Didier Haudepin Elsa, Elsa with François Cluzet and Lio , and then the music of Benoît Jacquot's film Corps et biens with Lambert Wilson and Dominique Sanda .
He recorded the album I Mist You in quartet with Tony Rabeson on drums and performed in different festivals (Nice, Porto, Lisbon, Nancy, Paris, etc.). In 1989, he created a jazz fusion orchestra, including Louis Winsberg on guitar, Paco Séry on drums and then in New York recording with Mike Stern , Eddie Gómez and Mino Cinelu on New York . Many concerts will take place in France, Asia (Philippines, Thailand, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Bali) and in India, Nepal, Algeria, Morocco before recording a disc of songs of Édith Piaf and Charles Trenet with an orchestra composed of 35 musicians, arranged by Martial Solal . From 1992 to 1995, he performed with various ensembles in Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Greece) in West Africa (Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Cameroon, Togo, Benin) Southern Africa (Rwanda, Mauritius, Seychelles, Abidjan) in Israel (Eilat festival, Tel Aviv) and in Portugal and France. He has been performing since 1998 in duet with Martial Solal, in quintet with Archie Shepp or with his own quartet. With him he played at the European festival in New-Dehli and then a series of concerts in India and the Middle East (Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Jordan). He composed in 1999 the music of the film of Gilles Bourdos Disparus with Anouk Grinberg , then the music of a documentary of Valérie Stroh on Simone de Beauvoir for France 3 in a century of writer. He plays as soloist in the soundtrack composed by Martial Solal of the film of Bertrand Blier The Actors . He founded and directed the École de création musicale in Rennes, then moved it to Dinan in 2003. He participates in the album of Henri Salvador Room with view . In 2001, he participated in the festivals of Abidjan and Tunis with Archie Shepp as well as many concerts in duet with Martial Solal . He participated in the play of Jean-Bernard Pouy 54 × 13 with the actor Jacques Bonnaffé , given at the theater of the Bastille . In June 2001, he won the Critics' Grand Prize for Best Stage Musical Composition of the Year. He composes and arranges Origines , a work for 25 musicians at the Inter Celtic festival in Lorient, which he performed on 3 August 2002, recorded in 2004 with Manu Lann Huel and Marthe Vassallo . In 2007, the year of his fifty years, released Le Lann Top , published on the label Nocturne , fusion of jazz and electro . It is the result of a meeting between the trumpet of Le Lann and rock bass Jannick Top , joined by Lionel Loueke on guitar and Damien Schmitt on drums. In 2007 and 2008, the Lann Top quartet performed on numerous stages, supported by samples and sequences managed by Fabien Colella , the fifth man in the band. Guitarists such as Jim Grandcamp , Jean-Marie Ecay and Nelson Veras , and drummers Damien Schmitt and Thierry Arpino are joined by the two leaders. In 2013, he paid tribute to Chet Baker , and recorded I Remember Chet , along with Nelson Veras and Gildas Boclé , using the trumpet-guitar-double bass trio formula Chet Baker was particularly fond of at the end of his career. In 2015, he released the album Life on Mars with Paul Lay , Sylvain Romano and Donald Kontomanou , he was awarded the Charles Cros Academy Award.
Personnel: Eric Le Lann (trumpet), Jean-pierre Arnaud (drums), Eric Legnini (piano), Rémi Vignolo (bass),
Today I Fell In Love
