Alain Charon

Alain Charon (born 1955) is a Musicien of Jazz Québécois. It specializes in the style jazz-fusion, like electric Bassiste (6 cords, as well freighted as Fretless) and like Compositeur.

Biography

Born with Saint-Éloi, Quebec, it is the last of a family of 11 children. In the 11 years age, it is interested much in the music, especially the jazz. To the beginning of the year 1970, it goes to Montreal, where it works as bass player in the studios and the clubs of jazz.

Partly Self-educated, it follows a formation by correspondence of Charlie Banacos. It also takes part in a session of summer of prestigious the Berklee College off Music. In Boston, he plays in the clubs of the area with musicians, such David Kikovsky, Tom Harrell, Sal Nistico, Frank Tiberi, Jerry Bergonzi and Bob Moses.

In 1977, it meets Michel Cusson, and with the beginning of the year 1980, it becomes one of the founder members of the group jazz-fusion inhabitant of Quebec UZEB with Michel Cusson and Paul Brochu. UZEB was recognized by the magazine of jazz Down Beat as being the best electric jazz group of the decade, and received several prices.

In 1992, it carries out the first of its five albums solo with Band . Then it launches out quickly in round to the United States, Europe and to Canada with the Mike Stern Trio , and subsequently with the Leni Stern Band in the United States, to Germany and France.

It was invited on several occasions to give its classes of Master in several cities like Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, London, Rome, Amsterdam, Geneva and Frankfurt. In 1993, Alain Charon published its first album solo: Band . It also took part in many projects in studio, in particular with Leni Stern and Michel Donato.

Style

Having begun on low electric conventional, Alain Charon stated to have lived a true traumatism at the time of his discovery of the work of Jaco Pastorius. Of fear of a too direct influence, he then seeks to develop his own style.

This research initially leads it to concentrate on the Contrebasse, instrument which enables him to develop a very great technicality in a repertory centered on the kind Be-bop. In parallel, and following in that the stylistic dynamics of UZEB, it focuses its electric basic play on virtuosity and technology, playing on the low ones with 6 cords, as well freighted as Fretless. The violin maker Georges Furlanetto developed a basic model fretless semi-acoustics which bears the name of Alain Charon.

On low hooped, it develops a particular approach of the Slap, giving to this technique play true melody contents, and either only rhythmic. But they is perhaps on low fretless that its influence is most palpable today on the scene contemporary jazz-fusion.

Emphasized by its own compositions, its play reveals at the same time a great sobriety of effects and a Lyrisme pronounced, the accuracy being never taken at fault. These elements confer to him an immediately recognizable sound by the amateurs of jazz-fusion.

In XXIe century, he is regarded as one of the largest current bass players.

Discography solo

Band - 1993
Rhythm 'N Jazz - 1995
Play - 1997 (the review Bass Player qualifies the album like one of the ten best basic albums of the decade.)
Call Me Al - 2000
5 - 2003 (According to AllAboutJazz.com, the album is “ … an excavation in the universe of electronics whereas it incorporates the atmospheric loops, environments and textures… ”
Live with the cabaret of Montreal - 2006
Conversation - 2007, Album with the Jazz source, and experimentation of low acoustics.

External bonds

Official site

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