Géraldine Laurent
Géraldine Laurent (* 1975 in Niort ) is a French jazz saxophonist ( alto).
Life and work
Laurent started early as the daughter of a music teacher with classical piano and began to learn the age of 13 saxophone. She attended the Conservatory in Niort and master classes, among others Jean -Marc Padovani and Jean -Louis Chautemps, but also studied at the Dutch pianist Floris Nico Bunink. After a D.E.M. had been finished in jazz and music, they began in 1999 with his own quartet Yoni Zelnik (bass ), David Georgelet (drums ), Marc Leseyeux ( piano). In 2000, she played in " TCSpectacle " and with the quartet of pianist Christophe Joneau, with whom she recorded two plates ( " Lavaud Gelade " 2003 " Ici & Maintenant "). Next she played in the quintet of drummer Charles Bellonzi. With the singer Romeyn Adams Nesbitt she played at the Olympia in Paris and at the Jazz Festival of Enghien -les- Bains.
Since 2005, she works with her Time Out Trio with Zelnik and drummer Laurent Bataille and also plays in Géraldine Laurent Trio with Hélène Labarrière ( bass) and Eric Groleau (drums). She also plays with the quartet of Antoine Hervier and in a quartet with Aldo Romano ( album Just Jazz 2008 Henri Texier, Romano, Laurent, Mauro Negri and Complete Communion to Don Cherry in 2010 with Romano, Texier, Fabrizio Bosso ). She was also involved in various ballet of Régine Chopinot. It is now well known in France (January 2007 they even emblazoned on the cover of the New York Times).
Their album Around Gigi ( Dreyfus Jazz ) 2010 received the award for best album of the Academie du Jazz ( with compositions by Gigi Gryce, Art Farmer, Thelonious Monk ). There it will be accompanied by Yoni Zelnick on bass, Franck Agulhon on drums and Pierre de Bethmann on piano.
In 2006 she received the Django d'Or as the best young talent ( and won the Prix Révélation at the jazz festival in Antibes ) and 2008 the Prix Django Reinhardt, as well as the prize for the best young talent at Les Victoires du Jazz.
Discography
- Time Out Trio, Dreyfus Jazz / Sony BMG 2007
- Around Gigi, Dreyfus Jazz 2010