Pierre Michelot


Pierre Michelot was a French jazz double bass player and arranger.

Early life

Michelot was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris on 3 March 1928. He studied piano from 1936 to 1938, and switched to playing bass at age 16.

Later life and career

He played and recorded with visiting American musicians in Paris. Michelot "played with Rex Stewart, performed at Frisco's in Paris with Kenny Clarke, and joined Clarke in a band accompanying Coleman Hawkins, with whom he recorded; in 1949 he also recorded with Clarke in an ad hoc band led by Sidney Bechet."
During his career, Michelot also performed with Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, Don Byas, Thelonious Monk, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Bud Powell, Zoot Sims, Dizzy Gillespie, and Chet Baker.
In a 1957 collaboration with Miles Davis, Michelot took part in creating the soundtrack of Ascenseur pour l'échafaud. He was a member of the Jacques Loussier Trio, known for the Play Bach album series from 1959. For two decades beginning in the early '60s, he concentrated on arranging and studio work. He also appeared in the 1986 film Round Midnight.
In later life, Michelot suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He died of Alzheimer's in Paris on 3 July 2005.

Discography

As leader

Jazz at the Blue Note with Maurice Vander, Kenny Clarke, Round About A Bass Piano for Dance with Steve Anderson, Kenny Clarke, Al in Paris with Al Haig Live Au Dreher with Walter Davis, Kenny Clarke Vander Michelot Lubat Bass & Bosses Viaggio with Richard Galliano Nougaro Sans Paroles with Maurice Vander, Bernard Lubat
With Daniel Humair & Rene UrtregerHum! Urtreger Michelot Humair Hum!: Live at Club Saint-Germain-Des-Pres & Two Radio Broadcasts
With Jacques Loussier and Christian GarrosPlay Bach No. 1 Play Bach No. 2 Play Bach No. 3 Play Bach No. 4 Concert in Jazz: Play Bach Play Bach Aux Champs Elysees Play Bach Aux Champs Elysees No. 2 Play Bach No. 5 Play Bach & Vol. 1 Portrait of Jacques Loussier
  • ''Play Bach No. 2 Portrait of Jacques Loussier''

As sideman

With Claude BollingFrench Jazz Les Succes de Duke Ellington Les Succes de La Nouvelle Orleans
With Clifford BrownClifford Brown Quartet Blue and Brown & I Can Dream Can't I The Clifford Brown Big Band in Paris The Clifford Brown Quartet in Paris The Clifford Brown Sextet in Paris Clifford Brown in Paris
With Sidney BechetSidney Bechet Martial Solal 1949 Spirits of New Orleans Sidney Bechet et Claude Luter
With Don ByasFavorites Memorial Don Byas Yesterdays Lover Man
With Miles Davis Ascenseur pour l'échafaud Jazz Sur L'ecran Jazz Track Jazz On the Screen The Complete Amsterdam Concert
With France GallN'Ecoute Pas Les Idoles Laisse Tomber Les Filles Poupee De Cire Poupee De Son L'Amerique Baby Pop Les Sucettes
With Serge GainsbourgBande Originale Du Film L'eau A La Bouche Romantique 60 Gainsbourg Percussions No. 2 Du Chant A La Une!...
With Stan GetzWith European Friends In Paris 1958–1959 Pennies from Heaven Sweetie Pie 1959
With Dizzy GillespieDizzy Gillespie Play & Sing in Paris Plays in Paris Sweet Lorraine & Dizzy Does It Jazz from Paris: Dizzy and Django Dizzy Dizzy Gillespie + The Double Six of Paris Havin' a Good Time in Paris Vol. 1 Europa Jazz
With Dexter GordonOur Man in Paris The Other Side of Round Midnight Ballads
With Coleman HawkinsBean and the Boys Picasso Lausanne 1949 Dear Old Southland
With Andre HodeirJazz et Jazz Saint-Tropez Blues Anna Livia Plurabelle
With Jacques Loussier and Royal Philharmonic OrchestraBach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 Etude Pour Trio Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Play Bach Fur Den Kenner Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 5
With Claude NougaroNo. 2 Bleu Blanc Blues Sur Scene Olympia 85 Nougayork Octobre 1985 Concert Integral
With Bud PowellMemorial Oscar Pettiford A Portrait of Thelonious Blue Note Cafe Paris 1961 Bud in Paris A Tribute to Cannonball Bud Powell Vol. 2
With Sammy PriceU.S.I.S Blues & Hot Club Boogie Sammy Price Avec Lucky Thompson 1956 Boogie-Woogie A La Parisienne
With Stephane GrappelliStephane Grappelly et Son Quartette Tea for Two Menuhin & Grappelli Play Jealousy & Other Great Standards Stephane Grappelli Puttin' On the Ritz Improvisations
With Django ReinhardtThe Great Artistry of Django Reinhardt Jazz from Paris Django Reinhardt Memorial Django Reinhardt et Son Quintette Bruxelles 21 Mai 1947 Paris 11 Mai 1951 Vol. 6 Django Reinhardt Au Club St-Germain-Des-Pres Inedits Vol. 2 Nuages Djangology
With Zoot SimsNight and Day & Slingin' Hasch Zoot Sims Quartet Zoot Sims Goes to Town Brother in Swing Zoot Sims & Frank Rosolino Zoot Sims in Paris
With others