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Daniel Humair
Screencapture of a video by l'Encyclopédie audiovisuelle de l'art contemporainBackground information Born 23 May 1938
Geneva, SwitzerlandGenres Jazz Occupations Musician, composer, artist Instruments Drummer Years active 1960 - present Labels Musica Records, Associated acts Martial Solal, Gerry Mulligan, Eric Dolphy, Joachim Kuhn Website Daniel Humair.com Daniel Humair (born 23 May 1938 in Geneva) is a drummer, jazz composer and painter.
He is widely renowned and became Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1986.
He has played with many jazz performers notably Martial Solal, Gerry Mulligan and Eric Dolphy.
Humair is also a talented painter. He describes his own work as "figurative abstract" and has created a coherent œuvre proving his passion and knowledge of artistic painting.
Discography
- 1960 : Connection
- 1960 : Humair Urtreger Michelot (trio "HUM")
- 1960 : Dermaplastic with Martial Solal
- 1964 : Jazz Long Playing with Jean-Luc Ponty Michel Portal and Eddy Louiss (Philips 77 810)
- 1967 : Sunday Walk with Jean-Luc Ponty, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Wolfgang Dauner (MPS Records)
- 1967 : From sticksland with Love with George Gruntz ( MPS records )
- 1971 : Huffin'n'Puffin' with Ray Nance as bandleader
- 1972 : Morning! (Musica Records)
- 1986 : Pastor with Michel Portal
- 1979 : Humair Jeanneau Texier with Henri Texier
- 1979 : Triple hip trip with David Friedman[disambiguation needed ] on vibraphone
- 1985 : Easy to read with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
- 1987 : Surrounded 1964/1987 with Eric Dolphy, Michel Portal, Martial Solal, Texier, Louiss, Mulligan, ...
- 1988 : From Time to Time Free with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
- 1990 : Up Date 3.3 with François Jeanneau and Henry Texier (Label Bleu)
- 1993 : Usual confusion with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
- 1996 : L'opera de Quat'sous - Die Dreigroschenoper - The Threepenny Opera with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
- 2003 : "Paris Abstractions" with Benjamin Koppel (sax) and Palle Danielsson (bass)
External links
- Official site of Daniel Humair (French)
Categories:- Jazz drummers
- 1938 births
- Jazz composers
- Living people
- Swiss drummers
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