Roland Guillon


?Roland Guillon is a French sociologist, known both for his work on the problems of employment and capital, and particularly, for his innovative approach to jazz.
He is a research engineer at the Centre for Economics and Ethics on Environment and Development at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. A specialist in employment and training, he has undertaken several missions in West Africa.
He is behind the definition of the term New Wave in jazz. Inspired by what was called New Thing in the late 1950s, Guillon believes that the term is inappropriate and replaces thing with wave, a word which connotes movement, perhaps to signify the permanence of swing.
New Wave is a synthesis of two main jazz styles, hard bop and free jazz. New Wave composers or artists include, but are not limited to, artists involved in both styles.
In La New Wave, un jazz de l'entre deux, Guillon establishes a chronology of the style and analyzes several albums key to understanding the movement. Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Don Cherry are illustrious members, as well as lesser-known musicians such as Prince Lasha.

Sociology

  • Les Syndicats dans les mutations et la crise de l'emploi, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1997
  • Environnement et emploi : quelles approches syndicales ?, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1998
  • Recherches sur l'emploi, éléments de sociologie de l'activité économique, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999
  • Syndicats et mondialisation, une stratification de l'union syndical, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000
  • Formation continue et mutation de l'emploi, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002
  • Regards croisés sur le capital social, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2003
  • Les Tensions sur l'activité en Afrique de l'ouest, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004
  • Classes dirigeantes et universités dans la mondialisation, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004
  • Sociologie de l'activité, une lecture critique de la globalisation, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2005
  • Les Avatars d'une pensée dirigeante, le cas du parti socialiste, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2006

Jazz

  • Le Hard Bop, un style de jazz, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999
  • Le Jazz de quatre cités, Hard bopper de Chicago, Détroit, Pittsburgh et Philadelphie, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2001
  • Musiciens de jazz new-yorkais, Le hard bopper, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2003
  • Anthologie du Hard Bop, L'éclat du jazz noir américain, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2005
  • La New Wave, un jazz de l'entre deux, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2007
  • L'empreinte de Parker, Gillespie et Ellington sur le jazz des années 1950–1960, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2011