JACQUES COURSIL
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Related Improv, Composition • France

Jazz trumpet player (born 1938, Paris, France; died June 25th, 2020, Plombières (Liège), Belgium) from discogs Coursil was born in the Montmartre area of Paris on 31 March, 1938 and grew up in the city’s suburbs. His parents were from Fort-de-France, Martinique, in the French West Indies. Creole songs, biguine, clarinettist Alexandre Stellio’s music and the Gregorian chants of churches made up the family’s musical environment. Coursil’s mother sung, and literature held an important place in the household. His father, a former sailor, was a syndicalist and French Communist Party member. After a tentative start on the violin at age nine, Coursil took up the cornet as a teenager. Early jazz interests included New Orleans players Sidney Bechet and Albert Nicholas. A live performance by saxophonist Don Byas left a strong mark. Contemporary classical music – Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern – and Pierre Schaeffer’s experimentations were other strong early interests. In 1958, during read more...