- Bands: Flea Market & Sawssan
- Function / Instrument: Guitarist
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Jean-Pierre lent himself to the game of portraits, here are some answers to our questions ...
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Since when do you evolve in music?
Jean-Pierre :
I started directly with the guitar, at 15 years old, self-taught with the pop and rock music of the time. My "revelation" was listening to the album "Larry Carlton" (... by Larry Carlton), which made me realize that all my rock heroes were playing in the second division. The trigger. The idea that you couldn't progress much without jazz. I still think so today, with the addition of classical music. At the age of 19 I bought a jazz method, on which I struggled a lot, and which I understood late that it was badly translated into French. But it taught me all the chords and put me in music theory. I finally took my first lessons at 27. Jazz, pure, for four years, with a teacher and then at the CIM, in Paris. I started classical guitar very late, when I became my daughter's teacher.
On the stage, a first pop-rock band at Antibes high school and an unforgettable memory of a concert in the courtyard in front of 900 people, at 17. Then the rock band of the vet school. The name of the band was Forceps. Yes, it was! Then jazz, with an instrumental quartet called Cameleon. We played modern music: Michel Petrucciani, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, as well as standards.
Today I am asked to accompany female singers in a guitar-voice duet, and thus were born the current duets with Sawssan and Magali. We play pop-rock, jazz, French variety.
The Flea Market adventure started as an acoustic duet with Magali, and quickly evolved into an electric quartet, and then into a quintet by integrating a pianist, who went to the same school as me, in Paris, the famous CIM. If I had to define Flea Market, I would say that it is pop music played by jazz musicians. Because all five of us come from jazz and played rock before.
I realize that I originally studied jazz to better play pop-rock, and that's what I'm doing today: going back to my roots.
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What are your musical influences?
Jean-Pierre :
The Beatles, rock and folk music of the 70's, Larry Carlton, Pat Metheny, Jean-Sebastien Bach, Michel Jonasz. And for the composition, Ennio Morricone.
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Have you already recorded an album or an EP?
Jean-Pierre :
I composed, wrote, arranged, recorded and produced an album of 12 tracks for a singer in 2007. The singer's name is Mariam, the album is called "Tout en douceur". Available on the platforms. I am very proud of this work, for the texts in particular, and I listen to the disc with always as much pleasure.
I returned to the studio to participate in the track "Chagrin" of the EP "Graver sur les murs" of Katiba, and I am finishing for her the arrangements and the production of a new EP of 5 titles which will be called "L'amour etc..." which will be released in 2021.
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Which song fits you best?
Jean-Pierre :
"If I could" and "Goin' ahead" by Pat Metheny. I want them at my funeral.
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Which artist would you like to share the stage with?
Jean-Pierre :
My dream is to continue with Flea Market. But if Beyoncé begged me to accompany her on stage, I'd say "hummm ... OK! "
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What are your other passions or interests besides music?
Jean-Pierre :
Rugby, which I like to say is my religion. The XV de France matches are the mass, which I never miss out of horror of blasphemy.
My job as a veterinarian.
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If you could only keep 3 albums among all the ones you own, which ones would you keep?
Jean-Pierre :
The Beatles' White Album, Offramp by the Pat Metheny Group, and the complete Mozart piano concertos by Daniel Barenboim.
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What is the unmentionable song you sing in your shower?
Jean-Pierre :
« Que je t’aime ! » … but that was when I was a vet student.
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Define, in 3 words, what music means to you
Jean-Pierre :
Enchanted neuroscience.
