François Gallix
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Double-bass |
Recognized double-bass player on French jazz scenes, in 1994 he founded the Crescent Jazz Club in Macon which became a real music laboratory, a platform of exchanges and meetings of the Collective Mu. Two CDs testify of that work : “Don Quichotte” and “Live at the Crescent”, both edited by “7th Records” (Harmonia Mundi).
At the same time he gave numerous concerts and obtained several distinctions : a First Prize of La Défense in 1996 among others. In 1999 he recorded “Get High” with the Loops which he founded with Stéphane Foucher and Eric Prost. With this trio he toured extensively in France and abroad. In 1999 he joined the quintet of the ex-trumpet player of the ONJ François Chassagnite with whom he played for instance at the Off Festival of Marciac. In 2001 he toured with a Franco-Bulgarian trio formed by Hristo Yotsov, Chibil Benev and Eric Prost.
Also in 1999 he got a “carte blanche” from the National Scene of Macon and on this occasion created “Les Chasseurs d’Etoiles” and played alongside Jean Cohen, Serge Lazarevitch, Simon Goubert, Eric Lelann, Yannick Rieu, Alain Jean-Marie, Peter King, S. Ellington, Thomas Chapin, Michel Grailler, he accompanies Steeve Grossman, Christian Vander, George Brown, Bobby Few, Sunny Murray, Manhu Roche, Nelson Veras. He gave numerous concerts in France, Spain, Bulgaria, and toured with Malcolm Braff Combo in Algeria.
He directed seminars at the Macon Crescent Jazz Club, animated groups and workshops of musical improvisation in his club. He accompanied students when taking their jazz examinations at the CNR of Lyon in 2000. His pedagogical activities went so far as Bulgaria. He taught master-classes for double bass solos at the Music Academies of Botevgrad and Sofia in 1999.
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