Dominique Pifarély

Dominique Pifarély
Pifarély live at Jazz Club Unterfahrt, Munich, 7 October 2010
Background information
Born 1957 (age 60–61)
Bègles, France
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s) Musician, composer, music conductor
Instruments Violin
Labels ECM, Poros éditions
Associated acts Aki Takase La Planète
Andreas Willers Octet
Celea-Couturier Group
La Bande A Badault
Louis Sclavis Quintet
Louis Sclavis Septet
Louis Sclavis Sextet
Mike Westbrook Orchestra
Multicolor Feeling Fanfare
Dominique Pifarély Quartet
Website pifarely.net

Dominique Pifarély (born 1957) is a French jazz violinist. He works in avant-garde jazz, but he has also worked in post-bop and other contexts.

Career

Pifarély was born in Bègles. In 1979, he began touring with bassist Didier Levallet and guitarist Gérard Marais as a trio. In the 1980s he began leading his own bands, as can be heard on the recording Insula Dulcamara (1988) and Oblique (1992).

In 1985, Pifarély started to work with reedist Louis Sclavis and in 1992, they formed the Sclavis/Pifarély Acoustic Quartet, featuring guitarist Marc Ducret and bassist Bruno Chevillon, and recorded for ECM. In the late 1990s, he started a duo work with pianist François Couturier, and they recorded a prominent album (Poros, ECM, 1997).

Dominique Pifarély is now focusing on different personal projects. Impromptu is a development of the collaboration with François Couturier, adding counter tenor Dominique Visse and a work on contemporary poetry. He also initiated numerous text/music experiences with French writer François Bon and actors Violaine Schwartz and Pierre Baux. The Dédales ensemble is an acoustic nine piece band. He founded in 2007 a trio with keyboard player Julien Padovani and drummer Eric Groleau.

He regularly performs in whole Europe, and has been touring in the US, Canada, Japan, India, Middle East, Latin America and Africa.[1]

Discography

As leader or co-leader

  • 1981: Instants chavirés, with Didier Levallet and Gérard Marais (Open)
  • 1987: Eowyn, with Didier Levallet and Gérard Marais (Label Bleu)
  • 1988: Insula Dulcamara (Nocturne)
  • 1993: Oblique (IDA)
  • 1993: Acoustic Quartet, with Louis Sclavis (ECM)
  • 1995: Triplicity, with Stefano Battaglia and Paolino dalla Porta (Dischi Della Quercia)
  • 1996: Icis, with Carlos Zingaro (In Situ)
  • 1997: Poros, with François Couturier (ECM)
  • 2001: Unsubstantial, with Alessio Riccio and Stefano Battaglia (Unorthodox)
  • 2005: Instants retrouvés, with Didier Levallet and Gérard Marais (L’Allan, limited edition)
  • 2006: Acoustic Strings, with Heiri Kaenzig, Christy Doran and Fabian Kuratli (Altrisuoni)
  • 2008: Impromptu, with François Couturier and Dominique Visse (Poros éditions)
  • 2008: Dominique Pifarély Trio, with Julien Padovani and Éric Groleau (Poros)
  • 2008: Peur, with François Bon, François Corneloup, Eric Groleau and Thierry Balasse (Poros)
  • 2009: Nommer chaque chose à part, with L'Ensemble Dédales (Poros)
  • 2010: Prendre corps, recital Ghérasim Luca with Violaine Schwartz (Poros)
  • 2013: Time Geography, with L'Ensemble Dédales (Poros)
  • 2015: Time Before and Time After, violin solo recording (ECM)
  • 2016: Tracé provisoire, Dominique Pifarély Quartet (ECM)

As sideman

With Rabih Abou-Khalil

With Denis Badault
  • En vacances, au soleil (Label Bleu)
With Tim Berne
With Safi Boutella
  • Mejnoun (Indigo)
With Hugo Carvalhais
  • Particula (Cleanfeed)
With Jean-Paul Celea and François Couturier
  • Black Moon, quartet with François Laizeau (Blue Silver)
With François Corneloup
  • Next (Hope Street)
With Vincent Courtois
  • Pleine lune (Nocturne)
  • The Fitting Room, trio with Marc Ducret (Enja)
With Dominique Cravic
  • Cordes et lames, with Didier Roussin, Francis Varis, Yves Torchinsky a.o. (Jazz in Paris HS Vol. 11)
With Marc Ducret
  • Qui parle? (Sketch)
  • Tower, Vol. 2 (Ayler)
With Rabih Abou Khalil
  • Yara, with Nabil Khayat and Vincent Courtois (Enja)
With Didier Levallet Swing String System
  • Paris-suite (Evidence)
  • Eurydice (Evidence)
With Eddy Louiss
  • Sang mêlé (Nocturne)
  • Multicolor Feeling (Nocturne)
With Gérard Marais
  • Est (Hopi)
With Michele Rabbia and Stefano Battaglia
  • Atem, with Michel Godard, Vincent Courtois (Splash)
  • Raccolto (ECM 1933/34)
With Samo Salamon
  • Stretching Out (Samo Records, 2013)
With Louis Sclavis
  • Chine (IDA 012, 1987; reissued on Label Bleu)
  • Chamber Music (IDA 022, 1989; reissued on Label Bleu)
  • Ellington on the Air (IDA 032, 1992)
  • Rouge (ECM 1458, 1992)
  • Les violences de Rameau (ECM 1588, 1996)
  • Danses et autres scènes (Label Bleu, 1997)
  • Dans la nuit (ECM 1805, 2002)
With Mike Westbrook
With Andreas Willers
  • The Ground Music (Enja)
  • Montauk (Between the lines)

Notes

  1. ↑ All Music
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