Pierre Michelot

Pierre Michelot ( March 3, 1928 in Saint- Denis, Seine- Saint- Denis, † July 3, 2005 in Paris) was a French jazz musician.

The bass player, you could see music Round midnight along with Dexter Gordon, and on the side of Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter and Billy Higgins in the film, one of the father figures of the European bass emancipation has been. Bud Powell and Miles Davis resorted to the sensitive and yet powerful game Michelots.

Rex Stewart and Coleman Hawkins, Chet Baker, Stéphane Grappelli, Don Byas, Thelonious Monk, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Zoot Sims, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, Jacques Loussier, Tchan Tchou Vidal and Baden Powell sat at their European visits or tours throughout on Michelots services. With Reinhardt, he worked at Blue Star session in March 1953, the penultimate session before his death. Furthermore, Michelot, participated in Miles Davis ' soundtrack Ascenseur pour l' Echafaud, the soundtrack to Louis Malle 's first film, Elevator to the Gallows.

Michelot was represented by recordings under his own name few: Round about a bass is one of his few albums.

In 1963 he received the Prix Django Reinhardt.

Works

• Swing SW- 344 ( with Kenny Clarke) (1950 )
• Django Reinhardt: Pêche à la Mouche: The Great Blue Star Sessions 1947/1953 ( Blue Star / Verve, 1953)
• Polydor 20853 (1958)
• Round about a bass ( Mercury Records 125500 )
• Bass and bosses ( with Toots Thielemans ) ( 1989)