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Artist Biography For Jean Paul Bourelly

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Jean-Paul Bourelly Was Born In Chicago Illinois On November 23 1960. He Took An Early Interest In Music Starting Piano Lessons From The Age Of 4. At Age 9 When His Cousin Brain Jones Played Him Tracks From The Hendrix Album Band Of Gypsy’s He Realized That The Electric Guitar Could Lead To A Vast New World Of Expression For Him. He Did Not Follow Through On His Interest Until He Was Thirteen Upon Which He Dove Passionately Into Learning Basic Blues And Rock Songs.
By The Age Of 16 He Met A Neighborhood Musician Saxophonist Steve Coleman And The Two Would Go Around To Play In Local Jam Session Most Notably Session Run By Chicago Legend Von Freeman. NEW YORK
Two Years Later In 1979 Bourelly Followed The Music To New York With His Goal Set On One Day Performing With The Innovative Drummer Elvin Jones. He Performed With Chico Hamilton Roy Haynes Olu Dara And Composer Pianist Muhal Richard Abrams Upon His Arrival Experiencing Diverse Sides Of New York’s Vibrant Jazz Scene. Finally In 1983 He Got The Call To Join Elvin Jones’s Jazz Machine Touring With Him For Two Years And Having Performed In Several Different Lineups That Included Mc Coy Tyner And Pharaoh Sanders. Having Completed His Apprenticeship Bourelly Noticed That His Intense Guitar Sound Was Becoming Too Much For The Jazz Clubs Of The Day And He Gradually Gravitated Toward The Punk Funk Or No Wave Music Scene That Was Going On In New York In The 80’s. He Was Starting To Play In Places Like CBGB’S The Lone Star Cafe And The Pyramid Lounge While Checking Out More Established Groups Like Sun Ra James Blood Ulmer Defunkt And James White And The Blacks. Some Of The First Signs Of His Own Original Blended Sounds He Called BluWave Were Noticed By The Press A Few Years Later While Appearing With His Band The BluWave Bandits A Regular Fixture At The Original Knitting Factory . That Was Followed Up By His Debut Album Jungle Cowboy JMT 1987 Then Enemy Records Release Trippin 1990 Which Provided Bourelly The Possibility Of Touring In Europe And Japan. This Concentration Of Activity Served To Focus His Vision Of Playing A Different Type Of Funky Music. After 5 Solo Recording With The DIW Label Bourelly Had The Feeling That He Desperately Needed Another Musical Atmosphere And Context In Order To Keep Growing. BERLIN
By 1994 Following The Birth Of His Two Children He Moved To Europe. He Started In His New Location Of Berlin By Forming Boom Bop An African /American Crossover That Arose In 1996 When Bourelly Met The Singer Drummer And Griot Abdourahmane Diop In The Section Of The City Known As Kreuzberg. He Was Deeply Impressed By His Art Of Recitation And Knew He Wanted To Collaborate With Him. "The Free Treatment Of Tempo Were Familiar And We Soon Found Ways In Which To Blend The Different Elements Of Our Cultures Into Some Unique Music " Bourelly Said. With This International Perspective Bourelly Was Ask To Curate Congo Square For The Diaspora Project Black Atlantic In 2004. Through This Project He Would Work With Historian Paul Gilroy And Their Exchange Help Give A Vocabulary For His Wide-Open Diaspora Concept. Bourelly Would Lead A Pivotal Concert There That Featured Percussionist Dou Dou Ndiiaye Rose Archie Shepp And Bassist Sante Debriano He Entitled “Navigating The Jazz Impulse”. The Next Years Bourelly Returned To The Tried And Tested Guitar Bass And Drum Power Trio Format But This Time Equipped With A Deeper Cultural And Sonic Attitude.
From 2004 Until 2006 He Led Several Versions Of The Group Vibe Music That Included John Blackwell Prince TM Stevens And Drummer Felix Sabal Lecco A Solo Acoustic Project News From A Darked Out Room Where He Plays A Percussion Technique With Chords Simultaneously On A Bare Acoustic Guitar While Singing In A Bluesy Style. The Seven Piece Group Cut Motion That Is Apart Of The Inter-Local Movement In Zurich And In 2007 Formed The Hendrix Tribute Band Gypsy’s Reloaded With Cindy Blackman/ And Melvin Gibbs. 3KINGS
Bourelly Latest Group Is 3kings. The Trio Consists Of Drummer Marlon Browden And Ghanaian Bassist Jonas “bibi” Hammond. The Formation Of This Group Marks The First Time That Bourelly Has Had A Lineup Formed In Berlin.
The Sound Is A Blend Of Familiar And Desperate Elements Melted Into A Jam Stew That Is At Once Jazzy Funky Trashy Mystical And Modern. The Group’s Modernist Impressionistic Vibe Tales You Through Swirling And Thrashing Grooves Lead By Sparse And Drastic Guitar Statements. The Group’s Development Was The Impetus Behind Starting The Jpgotmangos Label And Studio Where The Band Holds Performance Recordings And In The Coming Months Will Release Them Sporadically On The Internet.

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