FRANÇOIS COUTURIER
Genres: Third Stream, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Post Bop, Classic Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz • France

French jazz pianist and composer, born 2 May 1950 in Fleury-les-Aubrais, France. from discogs François Couturier is internationally renowned for his unique abilities as a pianist and composer for walking a loose but deliberate line between modern classical music, jazz, and creative improvisation. While all of these qualities have been revealed in abundance on his recordings for ECM and elsewhere, his adaptive and interpretive skills have also graced albums and tours by other artists including John McLaughlin, Anouar Brahem, Jon Christensen, and Dominique Pfarely. Couturier was born in 1950 near Orleans, France. He began his formal piano studios at home with his father, an accomplished amateur pianist who passed on his love for the classics and jazz to his son. He had a private tutor at age seven and continued with lessons until he was 20 and learned improvisation from listening to his father. He studied classical music and musicology at the University read more...