Bernard Vitet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bernard Vitet

French trumpeter

Date of Birth: 26-May-1934

Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 03-Jul-2013

Profession: composer, film score composer, trumpeter, jazz musician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Bernard Vitet

  • Bernard Vitet (26 May 1934 – 3 July 2013) was a French trumpetist, multi-instrumentist and composer, co-founder of the first free jazz band in France (1964) together with François Tusques, Michel Portal Unit (1972) and Un Drame Musical InstantanĂ© with Jean-Jacques BirgĂ© and Francis GorgĂ© in 1976.Born in Paris, France, Vitet was involved in the early fusion of jazz and contemporary music with Bernard Parmegiani and Jean-Louis Chautemps.
  • In the 1960s, he accompanied singers such as Serge Gainsbourg, Barbara, Yves Montand, Claude François, Brigitte Bardot, Marianne Faithfull, Colette Magny, and Brigitte Fontaine.
  • He played with jazz musicians such as Lester Young, Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry, Chet Baker, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Steve Lacy, Gato Barbieri, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Martial Solal.
  • In his early years, he performed with Django Reinhardt, Gus Viseur, Eric Dolphy, and Albert Ayler. Under his own name he recorded Surprise-partie avec Bernard Vitet (on trombone!), La GuĂŞpe on texts by Francis Ponge, Mehr Licht!, and about 200 other records with the aforementioned, plus Jean-Claude Fohrenbach, Georges Arvanitas, Sunny Murray, Michel Pascal, Alan Silva, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Hubert Rostaing, Alix Combelle, Ivan Jullien, Christian Chevalier, Jef Gilson, Jack DiĂ©val, Jac Berrocal, HĂ©lène Sage and 17 albums with Un drame musical instantanĂ©.
  • In 1995, he co-signs the songs of Carton with BirgĂ©, with whom he collaborates on music for films, exhibitions, and CD-Roms.Vitet invented instruments such as a reed trumpet, a multiphonic French horn, a variable tension double-bass, the dragoon which is a giant balafon with frying pans and flower pots keyboard, a clever system of modal clocks, and astonishing musical objects for Georges Aperghis, Tamia, and Françoise Achard.
  • Besides trumpet, he sang and played flugelhorn, piano and violin. He composed theatre music for Jean-Marie Serrault, and for the films (Les coeurs verts by Édouard Luntz, L'ombre de la pomme by Robert Lapoujade with Jean-Louis Chautemps, Bof by Claude Faraldo in collaboration with Jean GuĂ©rin, and La femme-bourreau by Jean-Denis Bonan. From 1976 to 2008, he devoted himself primarily to Un Drame Musical InstantanĂ© with Jean-Jacques BirgĂ©, improvising and composing hundreds of pieces together, experimental essays as well as symphonic pieces, songs as well as music for films.
  • Un D.M.I., as a trio or with their 15-piece orchestra, presented multimedia shows involving cinema, video, literature, dance and new technologies. Site drame.org offers hundreds of unissued pieces free to listen and download.

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