Médéric Collignon
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Médéric Collignon, born 6 July 1970 in Villers-Semeuse
, Ardennes
, is a French
jazz vocalist, cornet
tist and saxhorn
player.
He learnt to play the trumpet at the age of five, became a pupil at the Conservatoire de Charleville-Mézières
in 1984, and gained his diploma at the Conservatoire de Nancy in 1989. In 2009 he was awarded the Django Reinhardt
prize by the Académie du Jazz.
He has been influenced by various genres, including funk
, hard rock
, jazz-rock and the music of Olivier Messiaen
.
Villers-Semeuse
Villers-Semeuse is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France.-Population:-References:*...
, Ardennes
Ardennes
The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests, rolling hills and ridges formed within the Givetian Ardennes mountain range, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France , and geologically into the Eifel...
, is a French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
jazz vocalist, cornet
Cornet
The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B. It is not related to the renaissance and early baroque cornett or cornetto.-History:The cornet was...
tist and saxhorn
Saxhorn
The saxhorn is a valved brass instrument with a conical bore and deep cup-shaped mouthpiece. The sound has a characteristic mellow quality, and blends well with other brass.-The saxhorn family:...
player.
He learnt to play the trumpet at the age of five, became a pupil at the Conservatoire de Charleville-Mézières
Charleville-Mézières
Charleville-Mézières is a commune in northern France, capital of the Ardennes department in the Champagne-Ardenne region. Charleville-Mézières is located on the banks of the Meuse River.-History:...
in 1984, and gained his diploma at the Conservatoire de Nancy in 1989. In 2009 he was awarded the Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
prize by the Académie du Jazz.
He has been influenced by various genres, including funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
, hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
, jazz-rock and the music of Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
.
As leader
- 2006 Porgy and Bess, Discograph
- 2010 Shangri-Tunkashi-La, Plus Loin Music
As sideman
- 2001 Sereine, Label Bleu, with Claude Barthélémy
- 2003 Admirabelamour, Label Bleu, with the Orchestre national de jazz conducted by Claude BarthélémyClaude BarthélemyClaude Barthélemy is a Haitian former footballer who played at both professional and international levels as a striker.-Professional:Barthélemy spent time in the North American Soccer League with the Detroit Cougars.-International:...
- 2003 Napoli's WallsNapoli's WallsNapoli's Walls is an album by French clarinetist Louis Sclavis recorded in 2002 and released on the ECM label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "this record is full of sensual pleasure and an utterly accessible, often deeply moving articulation of a new...
, ECMECM (record label)ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...
, with Louis SclavisLouis SclavisLouis Sclavis is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including jazz and free jazz... - 2007 Bamana, Act Music, with Soriba Kouyaté