Andre Hodeir

André Hodeir is a Violoniste, Compositeur, Arrangeur and Musicologue French born with Paris in 1921.

Biography

Andre Hodeir type-setter:

Founder and director of the Jazz Group of Paris , in 1954, training of nine musicians (of which Bobby Jaspar, Pierre Michelot and Nat Peck). Type-setter of the two Books of Tests (1954 and 1956), of many film musics ( the Ideal Palate for Teenager Kyrou, the Jazz Cantata for the film Falls of stones, danger of dead of Michel Fano, etc). Founder of his own orchestra in the Sixties ( Catalysis , Arte beyond commedia dell' , Transplantation , Twilight with Nelly , etc, made public by the disc of Martial Solal, in 1984). Type-setter, in 1966, of the monumental cantata of jazz Anna Livia Plurabelle , on the text of James Joyce, then in 1972 of Bitter Ending , for Swingle Singers and a quintet of jazz, on the final monolog of Finnegans Wake .

Discography

1954 : The Sails Sessions (BMG, R/1999)
1956: the Jazz Groups of Paris plays André Hodeir (coll Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2001)
1957: The Alphabet and other tests (not republished out of Cd)
1959: Kenny Clarke' S Sextet plays André Hodeir (coll Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2002)
1960: Jazz and jazz (coll Jazz in Paris, Universal, R/2004)
1966: Anna Livia Plurabelle (second version Patrice Caratini in 1994, Blue Label)
1972: Bitter Ending (not republished out of Cd)
1984: Martial Solal and its orchestra play André Hodeir (Carlyne Music, 1984)

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