Humair, Daniel - Seasoning
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34-INTCHR 71322
"American Jazz critic Nat Hentoff once made an example of Daniel Humair as one „who long ago destroyed the notion that European drummers can't swing“. However, the artist born in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 23, 1938, who has been living and playing in Paris with the greatest European and American Jazz-stars ever since he was twenty years old, refuses to let himself be limited to music, let alone swinging. Renowned as a painter, with his abstract art included in some of the world’s best collections, Humair is an accomplished cook as well, who has also been helping with the interior design of his friend, three-Michelin-starred chef, Guy Savoy’s restaurants, including the design of the tableware and menu. „I am a touche-à-tout“, he says. „I do a lot of stuff. I am never bored.“
This excellent eclecticism can also be witnessed in the more than 300 recordings Daniel Humair participated in, from the trio HUM with Pierre Michelot and René Urtreger to the one with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark, from Phil Wood’s European Rhythm Machine to albums with Martial Solal, Jean-Luc Ponty, George Gruntz and many more. Adding to his discography as a leader, Daniel Humair brought a new group to his „European Jazz Legends“-concert at the Theater Gütersloh on November 11, 2016 – a quartet made up entirely of former students of his from the Paris Conservatory. Vincent Lê Quang on soprano and tenor, pianist Emil Spanyi and Stephane Kerecki on double bass made their former professor proud in a set of mostly Humair-compositions, with a completely improvised „Ballad“ by the group as the icing on the cake."
- LabelIntuition
- UPC0608917132229