Dominique Pifarély (born 1957) is a French jazz violinist. He works in

avant-garde jazz Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. It originated in the early 1950s and developed through the late 1 ...

, but he has also worked in

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and other contexts.

Career

Pifarély was born in

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. In 1979, he began touring with bassist Didier Levallet and guitarist Gérard Marais as a trio. In the 1980s he began leading his own bands, as can be heard on the recording ''Insula Dulcamara'' (1988) and ''Oblique'' (1992). In 1985, Pifarély started to work with reedist Louis Sclavis and in 1992, they formed the Sclavis/Pifarély Acoustic Quartet, featuring guitarist Marc Ducret and double bassist

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, and recorded for ECM. In the late 1990s, he started a duo work with pianist François Couturier, and they recorded an album (Poros, ECM, 1997). Impromptu is a collaboration with François Couturier, Dominique Visse, and a work on contemporary poetry. He also initiated text/music experiences with French writer François Bon and actors Violaine Schwartz and Pierre Baux. The Dédales ensemble is an acoustic nine piece band. In 2007 he founded a trio with keyboard player Julien Padovani and drummer Eric Groleau. He performs in Europe and has toured in the U.S., Canada, Japan, India, Middle East, Latin America, and Africa.

Discography

As leader

* ''Acoustic Quartet'' with Lous Sclavis (ECM, 1994) * ''Triplicity'' with

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and Paolino dalla Porta (Dischi Della Quercia, 1995) * ''Poros'' with François Couturier (ECM, 1998) * '' Time Before and Time After'' (ECM, 2015)

As sideman

With

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* ''Insomnia'' (

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) With Safy Boutella * ''Mejnoun'' (Indigo) With Jean-Paul Celea and

François Couturier François Couturier (born 2 May 1950 in Fleury-les-Aubrais, Orléans) is a French Jazz piano, jazz pianist. Biography Couturier began learning piano at the age of six. A year after earning his degree in classical music, classical piano and mus ...

* ''Black Moon'', quartet with François Laizeau (Blue Silver) With

Vincent Courtois Vincent Courtois (born 21 March 1968) is a French jazz cellist. Biography Courtois studied classical cello at the Conservatory of Aubervilliers, first with Erwan Fauré, and then with Roland Pidoux and Frédéric Lodéon. He also played Didier ...

* ''Pleine lune'' (Nocturne) * ''The Fitting Room'', trio with Marc Ducret (Enja) With

Marc Ducret Marc Ducret (born 19 August 1957) is a contemporary avant-garde jazz guitarist who frequently collaborates with saxophonist Tim Berne. Ducret's guitar style is idiosyncratic, having been called "highly original and very expressive," but also ...

* ''Qui parle?'' (Sketch) * ''Tower, Vol. 2'' ( Ayler) With

Rabih Abou-Khalil Rabih Abou-Khalil (, born August 17, 1957) is an oud player and composer born in Lebanon, who combines elements of Arabic music with jazz, classical music, and other styles. He grew up in Beirut and moved to Munich, Germany, during the Lebanese ...

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'' (Enja, 1998) * ''Yara'', with Nabil Khayat and Vincent Courtois (Enja) With Didier Levallet * ''Paris-suite'' (Evidence) * ''Eurydice'' (Evidence) With Eddy Louiss * ''Sang mêlé'' (Nocturne) * ''Multicolor Feeling'' (Nocturne) With Michele Rabbia and

* ''Atem'', with Michel Godard, Vincent Courtois (Splash) * ''Raccolto'' (ECM 1933/34) With Samo Salamon * ''Stretching Out'' (Samo Records, 2013) With

Louis Sclavis Louis Sclavis (born 2 February 1953) is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation and contemporary classical. Life ...

* ''Chine'' (IDA, 1987 reissued on Label Bleu) * ''Chamber Music'' (IDA, 1989 reissued on Label Bleu) * ''Ellington on the Air'' (IDA, 1992) * ''Rouge'' (ECM, 1992) * ''Les violences de Rameau'' (ECM, 1996) * ''Danses et autres scènes'' (Label Bleu, 1997) * ''Dans la nuit'' (ECM, 2002) With

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* '' On Duke's Birthday'' (Hat ART, 1985) * ''The Orchestra of Smith's Academy'' (Enja)

References

External links

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