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Biography

After learning to play the drums from his father, Ceccarelli started out playing in the salons of the Hotel Royal Nice

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at the age of fifteen, where he played with some musicians at tea dances on weekends. He was spotted by a lady who was the wife of John Tosan, and was presented to the brothers John Rob alias Jean-Claude and James Fawler alias Gerard Roboly, and on their request participated on rehearsals with the French band rock

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, who was looking for a new drummer, and was hired at age 16 in May 1962, which corresponds to the beginning of his long career. After almost two years, several tours and many recordings with this band, he left in January 1964 to resume the position of drummer in the band the Casino Sporting Club Monaco, and playing with many entertainers in studio and on tour, including

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, he turned to jazz. He had always wanted to be able to play with the jazz greats of the time, and could do so when becoming an active studio musician. From the late 1960s, he collaborated with arranger and trumpeter Ivan Jullien with whom he recorded the album including 'Synthesis' (1978). It also participates in the short-lived group Troc (1972) with

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and

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and sign two fusion style albums, one on the label Bingow, recorded between 1972 and 1973, the other for the Carla label in 1977. In 1974, he played in the orchestra of Jean-Claude Naude and participated on the album ''A New Kind of Band''. In 1979, he began a career in the United States alongside Bunny Brunel and

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, and met

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in 1987, with whom he continued a long lasting collaboration. He founded the 'Trio Sud' with

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and Jean-Marc Jafet in 2000. He has recorded as leader since the 1976, and released the album ''Avenue Des Diables Blues'' (2005) within his own trio. Ceccarelli is the sponsor of the festival Jazz at Any Time that started in 1998 in

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and the

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in 2013. He has worked with

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and

Awards and honors

*1998: Great Jazz Award, Sacem (French copyright management society), lifetime achievement

Discography

As leader

* ''Ceccarelli/Chantereau/Padovan/Pezin: CCPP'' (Flamophone, 1975) * ''Rythmes'' (Music de Wolfe, 1976) * ''Ceccarelli'' (Carla, 1977) * ''Andre Ceccarelli'' (JMS, 1981) * ''Project One'' (Sonotec, 1985) * ''Made in Sax'' (Patchwork, 1986) * ''Rock'' (Patchwork, 1986) * ''Africa'' (Patchwork, 1986) * ''Masters'' with Rene Urtreger (Carlyne Music, 1987) * ''New Music'' (MCT, 1988) * ''Rock for Everytime'' (MCT, 1989) * ''Dansez Sur Moi'' (Phonogram, 1990) * ''Hat Snatcher'' (Phonogram, 1992) * ''3 Around the 4'' (Verve, 1994) * ''From the Heart'' (Verve, 1995) * ''West Side Story'' (BMG, 1997) * ''61:32'' (BMG, 1999) * ''Carte Blanche'' (Dreyfus, 2004) * ''Avenue Des Diables Blues'' (Dreyfus, 2005) * ''Golden Land'' (CAM Jazz, 2007) * ''Sweet People'' (CAM Jazz, 2009) * ''Le Coq et La Pendule: Hommage a Claude Nougaro'' (Plus Loin Music, 2009) * ''Ultimo'' (Universal, 2012) * ''Twelve Years Ago'' (Bonsai Music, 2013) * ''Inedits et Incontournables'' (Just Looking, 2013) * ''Twenty 20'' (Bonsai Music, 2014) With Troc * ''Troc'' (Cy 1973) * ''Troc 2011'' (Universal/EmArcy 2011) * ''Crosstalk'' (Just Looking, 2015)

As sideman

With

* '' Live in Paris'' (Affinity, 1987) * ''Heartache Caravan'' (Polydor, 1989) * ''In Montreux'' (Polydor, 1990) * ''

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'' (Verve, 1993) * '' Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver'' (Verve, 1995) * ''

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'' (Verve, 1997) * ''This Is New'' (Verve, 2002) * ''Sings Kurt Weill Live at North Sea Jazz'' (Verve, 2003) With

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* ''My Guitar and All That Jazz'' (Carrere, 1983) * ''Dedicaces'' (Carrere, 1992) * ''Jouent Ray Ventura'' (Carrere, 1993) With

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* ''Porgy and Bess'' (Riviera, 1971) * ''Secret Service'' (Riviera, 1972) * ''L'Orchestre'' (Bingow, 1983) * ''Studio Davout'' (Continuo, 2018) * ''Live At Nancy Jazz Pulsations'' (Mimetik, 2019) With Bireli Lagrene * ''Standards'' (Blue Note, 1992) * ''Live in Marciac'' (Dreyfus, 1994) * ''Blue Eyes'' (Dreyfus, 1998) * ''Just the Way You Are'' (Dreyfus, 2007) With

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* ''Baby Sitter'' (Digitmovies, 2010) * ''Salaud, On T'Aime'' (Absilone, 2014) * ''Un + Une'' (Absilone, 2015) With

* ''1.2.3.4'' (JMS, 1987) * ''For Stephane'' (Ames, 2008) * ''Open Doors'' (Ames/Okey/Sony, 2017) With

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* ''Live Au Palais Des Sports 1977'' (Barclay, 1978) * ''Paris'' (RCA, 1986) * ''Sur La Route de Memphis'' (PolyGram, 2015) With Janko Nilovic * ''Giant'' (Z International 1972) * ''Un Homme Dans L'Univers'' (Montparnasse, 1978) * ''Jazz Impressions 1'' (Montparnasse, 2000) * ''Jazz Impressions 2'' (Montparnasse, 2000) With

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* ''Seaward'' (Soul Note, 1996) * ''Live in Paris'' (Challenge, 2005) * ''Tales from the Unexpected'' (Intuition, 2015) * ''Menage a Trois'' (Bonsai Music, 2016) * ''European Trio'' (Casa Del Jazz, 2016) * ''Monsieur Claude'' (Bonsai Music, 2018) With

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* ''Henri'' (EMI, 1985) * ''En Public'' (Disc'Az, 1982) * ''Des Gouts et Des Couleurs'' (EMI, 1989) With Yves Simon * ''Vol. 1 Au Pays Des Merveilles de Juliet'' (RCA Victor, 1973) * ''Respirer, Chanter'' (RCA Victor, 1974) * ''Un Autre Desir'' (RCA Victor, 1977) * ''Intempestives'' (Barclay, 1999) With others *

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, ''Time for Love'' (Music from Source 2017) *

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, ''Pianos Puzzle'' (Saravah, 1970) *

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, ''Myriad Road'' (Decca/Mi'ster 2015) *

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, ''Live Oblivion Vol. 2'' (Disconforme 1998) *

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, ''Becaud'' (Pathe, 1978) *

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, ''Wu Wei'' (Rounder 1994) *

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, ''Paris Lounge Toot Suite'' (Musicware, 2007) *

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, ''Joyful'' (Bonsai Music, 2012) *

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, ''Touch'' (Warner Bros., 1979) *

, ''Cafe Au Lait'' (Brunel Music, 2004) *

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, ''Jazzille'' (CY 1987) *

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, ''Sans Attendre'' (Inca, 2001) *

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, ''Dutronc Au Casino'' (Columbia, 1992) *

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, ''What You See Is What You Sweat'' (Arista, 1991) *

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, ''Somos Gitanos'' (Columbia, 2001) *

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, ''Les Barbares'' (Barclay, 1976) *

, ''Voleur de Feu'' (Barclay, 1986) *

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, ''Anna Non Si Lascia'' (Columbia, 1996) * Jean Claude Petit, ''The Best of All Possible Worlds'' (WEA, 1980) *

, ''Ponty/Grappelli'' (America, 1973) *

Michel Portal Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Early life Portal was born in Bayonne on ...

, ''Turbulence'' (Harmonia Mundi, 1987) * Baden Powell, ''Notes over Poetry'' (Far Out, 2017) *

Aldo Romano Aldo Romano (born 16 January 1941) is an Italian jazz drummer. He also founded a rock group in 1971. Biography He was born in Belluno, Italy. Romano moved to France as a child and by the 1950s he was playing guitar and drums professionally in P ...

, ''Chante'' (Dreyfus, 2005) *

Charlotte Rampling Tessa Charlotte Rampling (born 5 February 1946) is an English actress, known for her work in European arthouse films in English, French, and Italian. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, she began her career as a model. She was cast in the role ...

, ''Comme une Femme'' (Inca, 2002) * Francois Rabbath, ''Au Palais Des Sports Moshe'' (Naim, 1971) * Francois Rabbath, ''Live Around the World'' (Red Mark, 1992) *

, ''Tribute to Mingus'' (Adda, 1992) *

Demis Roussos Artemios "Demis" Ventouris-Roussos ( ; el, Αρτέμιος "Ντέμης" Βεντούρης-Ρούσσος, ; 15 June 1946 – 25 January 2015) was a Greek singer, songwriter and musician. As a band member he is best remembered for his work in ...

, ''Souvenirs'' (Philips, 1975) *

Kayna Samet Kayna Samet (born September 27, 1980 in Nice) is a French hip-hop and R&B singer.Kayna Samet
, Premier ...

, ''Entre Deux Je Voix Publik,'' (Barclay/Universal 2005) *

Dany Saval Dany Saval (born Danielle Nadine Suzanne Savalle; 5 January 1942) is a French former actress. Her career flourished during the 1950s and 1960s. Best known in America as one of a trio of airline stewardesses being shuffled around by Tony Curtis ...

, ''Penelope Conte Musical'' (Trema, 1978) * Gilbert Sigrist, ''Numero 1'' (Celluloid, 1989) *

Martial Solal Martial Solal (born August 23, 1927) is a French jazz pianist and composer. Biography Solal was born in Algiers, French Algeria, to Algerian Jewish parents. He was persuaded to study clarinet, saxophone, and piano by his mother, who was an opera ...

, ''Martial Solal Big Band'' (Gaumont, 1981) *

, ''Big Band'' (Cy, 1984) *

Toots Thielemans Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian jazz musician. He was mostly known for his chromatic harmonica playing, as well as his guitar and whistl ...

, ''Chez Toots'' (Private Music 1998) *

, ''Love Explosion'' (United Artists 1979) *

, ''California Daydream'' (Musidisc, 1992)

Bibliography

*Jean Chalvidant et Hervé Mouvet, La Belle Histoire des groupes de rock français des années 60, Paris, Éditions Fernand Lanore, 2001, 191 p. In French () *Music Story 2013 article Loïc Picaud. In French

References

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