Rémi Charmasson, french guitar-player (Avignon, 3rd May1961).He started playing guitar as a self-taugh-man then, in 1985, he entered the Conservatory of Avignon (France) in the jazz class directed by André Jaume. He gratuated in 1987 and worked regulary with André Jaume's trio. In 1988, he played a duet with the double-bass player Claude Tchamitchian and won the contest of the jazz festival in Sorgues (France).This prize was followed by two series of concerts and the recording of a CD produced by CELP in 1990. He performed in various festivals (Sorgues, Le Mans, La Seyne) with André Jaume, Jimmy Giuffre, Buddy Collette and Charlie Mariano. Besides, he played with the sax players Thierry Maucci and Charles Tyler before materializing a personnal work by recording a trio creation with Jean-François Jenny-Clark et Fredy Studer (1992). The same year, he played and recorded a CD with the drummer Denis Charles.

"Through the combination of his first musical influences (rock and folk music) and jazz, Rémi Charmasson got a very personal style, dedicated to the richness of melodies that drew with a great accuracy and a solid rythmic basis.Dedicated also to the necessity to express his sensibility with a largest freedom, keeping in mind the idea of an indispensable structure in which he could keep a great flexibility."

 

-J.P. Ricard - Dictionnaire du Jazz (Jazz dictionary) Carles - Clergeat - Comolli / Collection "Bouquins", Robert Laffont Publisher.

 

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Rémi Charmasson has since recorded and worked in concerts with: Jimmy Giuffre, André Jaume, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Fredy Studer, Charlie Mariano, Buddy Collette, Tony Coe, Sapto Raharjo, Bernard Santacruz, Jean-Pierre Jullian, Barre Phillips, Stephan Oliva, Thierry Maucci, Denis Charles, Charles Tyler, Alain Soler, Jean-Jacques Avenel, François Laizeau, Randy Kaye,Guillaume Séguron, Laure Donnat, Emmanuel Bex, Riccardo Del Fra, Jean-Luc Ponthieux, Larry Schneider, Bob Harisson, Barry Altschull, Joe Mac Phee, Louis Sclavis,Wolfgang Pushnig, Daunik Lazro, Philippe Deschepper, Raymond Boni, Claude Tchamitchian, Joe Giardullo, Richard Downs, Guillaume Séguron, Anthony Ortega,Médéric Collignon, Ramon Lopez, Éric Longsworth, Éric Échampard, Claude Barthélémy, Gerry Hemmingway, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Mat Maneri, Tom Rainey, Drew Gress...

He appeared in several festivals and tours :Mexico, Luz, Sorgues, Patras, Moers, Bolzano, Radio France Montpellier, Jazz en pays d'Apt, Rive de Giers, Banlieues Bleues, Radio France Paris, Europa Jazz Le Mans, La Seyne sur mer, Printemps du Jazz à Nîmes, Jazz à Mulhouse...Vietnam, Chine , Indonésie, Portugal, Mexique, USA, Italie, Grèce, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua...etc

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