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The dean of Europe’s modern jazz drummers has been one of the International jazz community’s most respected and active musicians since the late 5O's. His three decades of contributions to improvised music were recognised officially in 1986 when he was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and recently by the governement of France. In 1987, he was awarded the grand prix du jazz by SACEM ( France’s music publishing organization) and in 1988, he received the highest jazz honors awarded annuelly by the french recording academy (Charlie Parker award) and the Académie Charles Cros (Prix In Honorem. the equivalent of the Grammy). Winning both of the last two prizes is rare receiving both in one year was unprecedented.
Photograph : Patrick Morrisson.
Daniel Humair was born in 1938. He began playing drums when he was seven and turned professional in 1955 after winning firstprize in three categories at the annual amateur contest in Zurich Jazz Festival. He then spent several years performing in his native Switzerland and touring Germany, Belgium and Sweden before settling in Paris in 1958 where he began working with such legendary mainstream jazz artists as Lucky Thompson, Don Byas, Kenny Dorham, Eric Dolphy, Jacky Mc Lean, Oscar petitford and Chet Baker.
In 1959, Humair formed a trio leaded by pianist Martial Solal, the first in a series of collaborations in a musical relationship that continues to this day.Then he became a member of a trio with vioionist Jean Luc Ponty and organist Eddy Louiss. In the late 60s, he joined Phil Woods European Rhythm Machine. Humair was named Drummer Deserving Wider Recognition in the 1970 Down Beat international Critics Poll.
He spent 1970 to 77 freelancing with such artists as Stéphane Grappelli, George Gruntz, Franco Ambrosetti, Jim Hall, Herbie Mann, Lee Konitz, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Anthony Braxton, etc… before forming a trio with bassist Henri Texier and saxophonist François Jeanneau, hailed as France’s most adventurous ensemble at the time which toured Asia and the Middle East under the auspices of the French government
While the trio he formed in 1964 with pianist Joachim Kühn and bassist Jean-François Jenny-Clark is the drummer’s main musical interest and challenge at this writing he continues to lead various "Special Occasion" Ensemble of his own (featuring John Scofield, Bob Berg, Oavid Friedman or Larry Schneider as guest soloists) and still collaborates occasionally with longtime associates Solal and Michel Portal. In 1991. Humair took special interest playing with David Liebman in company of Kühn and Jenny Clark and toured with a new co leader's group Quatre including trumpettist Enrico Rava pianist Franco D’Andrea and bassist Miroslav Vitous. Late 1991 he started a collaboration with Bostonian tenor saxophonist Jerry Bergenzi.
Danlel Humair has been invited to play in almost all of the major international Jazz Festival's such as Newport, Monterey, New York, Milano. Barcelona, Antibes, Nice, Montreux, Paris, Berlin, Chicago, etc.
His recording career now consists of around 200 albums. as a sideman some of which have been award winning, and over 15 albums in his name.
Parallel to his musical career, Humair is a professional painter working mainly with acrylic paint on paper since 1962. His abstract work is included in the permanent collections of the City of Paris, the Swiss Governement and several public collections in Europe. He also combines his interest in the visual and aural arts by appearing on the soundtracks of many films (e.g. Last Tango In Paris) and is the author of Drum Book, an "anti- licks" teaching text with no musical content that presents a revolutionary technique, theory system, in its series of visual exercices.
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