Daniel Humair


Daniel Humair is a Swiss drummer, composer, and painter.
He is widely renowned and became a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1986 and Officer in 1992. He has played with many jazz performers notably Phil Woods, Jean-Luc Ponty, Chet Baker, Michel Portal, Martial Solal, Dexter Gordon, Gerry Mulligan, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Eric Dolphy.
Humair is also a talented painter. He describes his own work as "figurative abstract" and has created a coherent œuvre proving his passion and knowledge of artistic painting.

Discography

As leader

  • Hum! with Rene Urtreger, Pierre Michelot
  • Trio HLP
  • Drumo Vocalo
  • Our Kind of Sabi with Eddy Louiss, John Surman
  • Beck Mathewson Humair Trio
  • La Sorcellerie a Travers Les Ages with Jean Luc Ponty, Phil Woods, Eddy Louiss
  • Suite for Trio with Martial Solal, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
  • Urtreger Michelot Humair with Rene Urtreger, Pierre Michelot
  • Humair Jeanneau Texier
  • Triple Hip Trip
  • Apocalypse with Jean-Charles Capon
  • East Side West Side
  • Akagera with Jeanneau/Texier
  • Scratch with Kenny Barron, Dave Holland
  • Pepites with Andre Jaume
  • 9–11 p.m. Town Hall with Michel Portal
  • Quatre with Rava/D'Andrea/Vitous
  • Up Date 3.3 with Francois Jeanneau, Henri Texier
  • Edges
  • Earthcake with Quatre
  • Vol. 1 with Louiss/Ponty
  • Vol. 2 with Louiss/Ponty
  • Solo Print with Roland Auzet
  • Quatre Fois Trois
  • HUM
  • Borderlines with Farao/Avenel
  • Liberte Surveillee
  • Frontier Traffic with Charlie Mariano
  • Work with Steve Lacy
  • Baby Boom
  • Ear Mix with Stamm/Friedman/Boisseau
  • Tryptic with Celea/Couturier
  • Bonus Boom
  • Full Contact with Joachim Kuhn
  • Pas de Dense with Tony Malaby
  • Jazz Festival, Kulturzentrum Kammgarn Schaffhausen, Switzerland
  • Sweet & Sour
  • Lights with Nicolas Former
  • Seasoning
  • ''Modern Art''

    As sideman

With Franco Ambrosetti
  • Jazz a Confronto 11
  • Steppenwolf
  • Franco Ambrosetti Quartet
  • Wings
  • Tentets
  • Movies
  • Movies Too
  • European Legacy
  • Liquid Gardens
With European Jazz Ensemble
  • 20th Anniversary Tour
  • 25th Anniversary
  • 30th Anniversary Tour 2006
With Stephane Grappelli
  • Just One of Those Things!
  • Les Grands Classiques Du Jazz
  • Les Valseuses
  • Django
  • Stephane Grappelli with Bill Coleman
  • Giants
  • Feeling + Finesse = Jazz
  • Anything Goes
  • Stephane Grappelli Plays Cole Porter
  • Stephane Grappelli Plays George Gershwin
With George Gruntz
  • Jazz Goes Baroque 2
  • Drums and Folklore
  • Noon in Tunisia
  • St. Peter Power
  • Monster Sticksland Meeting Two Monster Jazz
  • For Flying Out Proud
With Raymond Guiot
  • Jazz Baroque Quintet
  • Joue Domenico Scarlatti
  • Haendel with Care
With Joachim Kuhn & J.F. Jenny-Clark
  • Easy to Read
  • From Time to Time
  • Live Theatre De La Ville Paris 1989
  • Carambolage
  • Usual Confusion
  • Triple Entente
With Claude Nougaro
  • No. 2
  • Claude Nougaro
  • Paris Mai
  • Le Disque D'Or De Claude Nougaro
  • Les Grandes Chansons De Claude Nougaro Une Petite Fille
With Jean-Luc Ponty
With Michel Portal
  • Any Way
  • L'ombre Rouge
  • Turbulence
With Rhoda Scott
  • A L'Orgue Hammond Take a Ladder
  • A L'Orgue Hammond Vol. 2
  • Rhoda Scott
With Martial Solal
  • Martial Solal
  • Jazz a Gaveau
  • Concert a Gaveau Vol. 2
  • Solal!
  • Contrastes
  • A Bout de Souffle
With Swingle Singers
With Barney Wilen
  • Barney
  • More from Barney at the Club Saint-Germain
  • Le Jardin Aux Sentiers Qui Bifurquent
With Phil Woods
With Attila Zoller
  • The Horizon Beyond
Memories of Pannonia
  • Overcome Live at the Leverkusen Jazz Festival
With others
The Band, Live at the Schauspielhaus