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Christian Escoudé Born On 23 September 1947 Died 13 May 2024 Was A French Gypsy Jazz Guitarist Remembered For His Mixing Of Bebop And Gypsy Jazz Influences Featuring The Use Of Vibrato Portamento And Fast Runs. Escoudé Grew Up In Angoulême. Of Romani Descent On His Father's Side His Father Was A Guitarist Too And Influenced By Django Reinhardt. Escoudé Became A Musician At 15 And Starting In 1972 He Worked In A Trio With Aldo Romano. By The 1980s He Had Success In A Quartet With John Lewis. He Also Played With Philip Catherine For A Time. In His Forties He Received A Contract With The French Division Of Verve Records. Escoudé Forged Himself A Style Of Guitar From The Canons Of Bop Jazz Largely Tinged With Gypsy Influence. He Demonstrated A Great Sense Of Melody Where It Comes To “Gypsy” Inflections Like The Vibrato And The Portamento A Lot Of Heat In The Phrasing And A Great Tonal Fullness Or Fertility. He Distinguished Himself By His Personal Using Of Arpeggios In The Half-Tone/tone System. At Jazz In Where He Appeared In 1972 "after Hours" He Met Eddy Louiss Bernard Lubat Aldo Romano. Later He Joined Didier Levallet Swing String System Michel Portal Unit. In 1976 The Academy Of Jazz Awarded Him The Django Reinhardt Price While A New Quartet With Michel Graillier Aldo Romano And Alby Cullaz And Later With Jean-François- Jenny-Clark Was Formed. At The Same Time He Was Heard Freelance With Michel Portal As Well As With Slide Hampton Martial Solal And Jean-Claude Fohrenbach. In 1978 The Festival Of Nice Was An Opportunity For Him To Register With The Quartet Of John Lewis And To Play With Stan Getz Bill Evans Philly Joe Jones Freddie Hubbard Lee Konitz Shelly Manne Elvin Jones ... Starting From 1978 He Participated Nearly Every Year In The Samois Festival Organized As A Tribute To Django Reinhardt. In 1979 He Is At The Festival Of Dakar Supplementing The Trio René Urtreger-Pierre Michelot-Daniel Humair. Summer 1980 John McLaughlin Invited Him To Tour As A Duo Which Led Him To The USA Brazil And Japan. In 1981 He Joined The Large Orchestra Martial Solal. The Following Year He Appearsed In A Quartet Alongside Shelly Manne. Back In France He Forms His Own One With Olivier Hutman Keyboards Nicolas Fitzman B Bg And Jean My Truong Perc - The Latter Two Will Be Replaced By Jean-Marc Jafet And Tony Rabeson. In 1983 He Began A Duo With Didier Lockwood That Led In 1984 To A Trio With Philip Catherine. In 1985 He Played With Carter Capon And Then Forms The "Gypsy Trio" With Boulou Ferré And Babik Reinhardt. In 1987 He Played A Duet With Michel Graillier John Thomas With The "Gypsy Trio" And Then Again With Capon-Carter. Beginning 1988 A New Quartet Is Formed With Jean-Michel Pilc François Moutin And Louis Moutin. The Following Year He Formed An Octet With Four Guitars Paul Challain Ferret Jimmy Gourley Frédéric Sylvestre Accordion Marcel Azzola Cello Vincent Courtois Bass Alby Cullaz And Drums Billy Hart . New York 1990 He Played The Village Vanguard With Pierre Michelot Hank Jones And Drummer Kenny Washington. In 1991 Surrounded By A String Orchestra He Recorded Eleven Compositions Of Django Reinhardt. In 1992 His "Gipsy Trio" Challain Ferret Sylvestre Is Increases With Babik Reinhardt Or Bireli Lagrene And The Following Year In Los Angeles He Recorded With Lou Levy Bob Magnusson And Billy Higgins. In 1998 He Wrote And Recorded A Suite For Gypsies A Piece Of Jazz Rock Fusion Dedicated To The Memory Of Gypsy Children That Died In Concentration Camps. In 2003 The Year Of The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Death Of DJANGO REINHARDT He Formed A Big Band 17 Musicians With Whom He Explored The Musical Legacy Of Django While Bringing In His Own Style And His Harmonic And Rhythmic Ideas. In 2004 It Is THE NEW TRIO GITAN Reunion Of 3 Guitarists With David Reinhardt And Martin Taylor And Jean-Baptiste Laya . In March 2005 "Ma Ya. Ya" Appears On Nocturne With His New Sextet Progressive Sextet Consisting Of Marcel Azzola Jean-Baptiste Laya Sylvain Guillaume Jean-Marc Jafet Yoann Serra. Under The EmArcy Label Verve's Paris Offices He Publishes From 1989 To 1994 7 Albums Gipsy Waltz / 1989 / Marcel Azzola / Live At The Village Vanguard / Plays Django Reinhardt / In LA-Standards Vol.1 / Cookin'in Hell's Kitchen In 96 Followed By "At Duc Des Lombards" And In98 By "A Suite For Gypsies." Over His Career Escoudé Composed Or Participated In The Recording Of Over 50 Albums. Translated From Www.Christianescoude.Com read less