Alain Jean-Marie
Alain Jean-Marie is a French jazz pianist.Biography
Jean-Marie taught himself to play piano from age eight. He played in dance orchestras in Guadeloupe, lived in Canada from 1967 to 1970 and then in the Antilles. He made his first recordings in 1969. At the same time he played regularly with the trio of Winston Berkley and Jean Claude Montredon. In 1973, he moved to Paris, where he accompanied jazz musicians such as Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt, Art Farmer, Johnny Griffin, Lee Konitz, and Max Roach. In 1979, he debuted with his own trio. Since the 1980s, he has regularly performed with Barney Wilen, including as a duo on albums such as La Notenbleue and Dreamtime. In 1986, he regularly accompanied Dee Dee Bridgewater. In 1987 he recorded the album Latin Alley in a duo with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. In 1990 he accompanied Abbey Lincoln on the album World Is Falling Down with Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins and Charlie Haden. In 1991 he played with Henri Texier and Aldo Romano on The Scene Is Clean. His 1992 trio album Biguine Reflections was influenced by the music of the Antilles as well as bebop. He also played in a trio with Gilles Naturel and John Betsch and recorded his first solo album in 1999. In 2004, a second solo album, Thats What, followed.
Jean-Marie also played with Guadeloupe musicians such as the guitarist André Condouant, a group of musicians from Guadeloupe under the trumpeter Franck Nicolas and the saxophonist Jocelyn Ménard. He also worked with Jacques Vidal / Frédéric Sylvestre, with Michel Graillier, Boulou and Elios Ferré, with Xavier Richardeau, Sara Lazarus and Ted Curson.
In 1979 he received the Prix Django Reinhardt and in 2000 the Django d'Or.Discography
With Teddy Edwards
