JEAN DEROME
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Avant-Garde Jazz, Hard Bop, Jazz Related Soundtracks, Third Stream, Post Bop, 21st Century Modern • Canada

Jean Derome is a cofounder of the Ambiances Magnétiques record label, and one of the most active and provocative members involved in the many creative music movements of Montreal; he is a model and an inspiration for all who inhabit the imaginative world that the new music is creating. A recipient of the 1992 Freddie Stone Award, Derome has for many years been an innovator in the art of putting sounds together and of taking sounds apart. As an accomplished musician, composer, interpreter, instrumentalist (actually, a multi-instrumentalist) and improvisor, he has been working to enlarge the boundaries of music for more than thirty years. Derome can select from amongst his wide training (in the classical, ancient, baroque, contemporary, pop, folk, jazz, modal, tonal, atonal, twelve-tone, and cacophonous schools), mix together a vast range of elements and re-express them in an eclectic language that is completely contemporary. His experience and experiments with Montrealers René read more...