Eddy Louiss

Eddy Louiss ( born 2 May 1941 in Paris as Edouard Louise ) is a French jazz pianist and organist. With a keen sense he can hold in his organ playing rhythmic suspense even over long note values ​​of time.

Life and work

Louiss comes from a musical family: his mother, a pianist, introduced him to classical music, his father, a trumpet player from Martinique, introduced him to the music of the Caribbean and jazz. He learned from his parents, the trumpet and piano and played as a teenager in his father's band, then in a teenage band. He studied at the Paris Conservatory and played in the 1960s by the way in various Parisian jazz clubs; as a singer, he was (next to Mimi Perrin, Roger Guérin, Ward Swingle, Christiane Legrand ) to 1963 member of the group Double Six, the first time he accompanied on a tour of Canada on the organ.

Mid-1960s, Louis's as an organist with Johnny Griffin, Art Taylor, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz came on and also worked as a studio musician. In the late 1960s he was one next to the Barney Kessel Trio Kenny Clarke. In 1970 he gave concerts in Japan with Albert Mangelsdorff and John Surman. He also worked with Jean -Claude Naude and with Stéphane Grappelli and played the unusual repertory is also album Dynasty (1971 ) with Stan Getz, guitarist René Thomas and drummer Bernard Lubat one. After two years of study in the Ivory Coast and almost four years of abstinence concert he gave in December 1979, again a concert in Paris. In the 1980s he toured with his own big band Multicolor Feeling by Europe. The mid-1990s, he worked in a duo with Michel Petrucciani; In 2001 he played with Richard Galliano recorded the album Face to Face.

Prizes and awards

In 1964 he received the Prix Django Reinhardt. 1968 and 1971 to 1974, he was named in Kritikerpoll the downbeat as the organist, whose talent was to observe more; 1971/72, 1974 and 1980 voted him the readers of the international magazine Jazz Forum Best European organists.

Discography (selection)

  • Trio with Daniel Humair HLP and Jean- Luc Ponty, 1966
  • My Kind of Sabi with John Surman, Niels -Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Daniel Humair, 1970
  • Orgue with Kenny Clarke, Jimmy Gourley, Guy Pedersen, 1971 ( Reprint as Bohemia after Dark at Emarcy )
  • Orgue, Vol 2, 1972
  • Sang Mele, 1987
  • Eddy Louiss / Michel Petrucciani [live ] 1994
  • Conférence de presse with Michel Petrucciani, 1994
  • Conférence de presse, Vol 2, 1995
  • Floméla with Marc Bertaux, Tony Bonfils, Steve Ferrone, Bob Garcia, Jo Maka, Luigi Trussardi, Jean -Louis Viale, 1996
  • Eddy Louis's trio with Kenny Clarke, René Thomas, 1997
  • Louissiana, 2000
  • Multicolor Feeling Fanfare, 2000
  • Tissue, 2000
  • Récit proche with Xavier Cobo, Jean Marie Ecay, Paco Sery, 2001
  • Face to Face with Richard Galliano, 2002
  • Ô Toulouse ... Hommage à Claude, 2006

Lexigraphic entries

  • Martin Kunzler: M -Z. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2002, ISBN 3-499-16513-9 ( Jazz-Lexikon. Volume 2).
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