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Jean-Pierre Drouet (born 30 October 1935) is a French multi-instrumentist percussionist and composer. Born in Bordeaux, Drouet studied with René Leibowitz, Jean Barraqué and André Hodeir.
Jean-Pierre Drouet performing Globokar and Aperghis. Héloïse Demoz, a doctoral student at Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis University, imagined and organized this film session at the Amphi X of...
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11K views, 279 likes, 186 loves, 57 comments, 232 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Prabhu Edouard Music: Special tribute to maestro Jean-Pierre Drouet on his 86th birthday today. From a documentary...
JEAN-PIERRE DROUET In conversation with JONATHAN HEPFER (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany - 2010)
Upon graduating, Drouet fell into friendship with Italian composer Luciano Berio and his vocalist wife Cathy Berberian; the three explored the United States together in the 1950s, where Drouet developed an interest in jazz and improvised music that would remain with him through the rest of his career.
Deprived of a promising career as pianist owing to a road accident, Jean-Pierre Drouet, born in 1935, studied the trumpet then percussion at the Bordeaux Conservatory.
And this 1970 session is actually a collusion between the saxophonist’s Anglo-American trio of the day — filled out by bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Stu Martin, both Yanks — with two Frenchman — percussionist Jean-Pierre Drouet and the chameleon-like woodwind master Michel Portal.
