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Michel Graillier was born on 18 October, 1946 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France, is a French jazz pianist. Discover Michel Graillier's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?
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18 October, 1946 |
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18 October |
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Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France |
Date of death |
February 12, 2003 |
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Paris |
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Michel Graillier Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Michel Graillier worth at the age of 56 years old? Michel Graillier’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. He is from France. We have estimated Michel Graillier's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Michel Graillier (18 October 1946, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France – February 2003, Paris) was a French jazz pianist.
From the ages of four to eighteen, Graillier studied classical piano in Lens, France.
During adolescence, he worked as a drummer with the amateur yéyé group, Les Chaps ("The Guys").
After some preparatory classes, he enrolled in the engineering school at the ISEN in Lille, where he met the bassist Didier Levallet through whom he discovered jazz.
In 1968, with a diploma in electrical engineering, he moved to Paris.
He played in clubs, most notably at the Caméléon, in a trio with Aldo Romano and Jean-François Jenny-Clark.
He made his first recording in 1969 with Steve Lacy.
Due to personal problems, he withdrew from performing for a period of time.
In 1972, he was invited by drummer Christian Vander to play piano in his group Magma, which he did for two years.
Following that, he played with Christian Escoudé, François Jeanneau, and others.
For several years, he was the regular pianist at the club Riverbop.
Here he had the opportunity to play Americans in Paris who were on tour, such as Philly Joe Jones and Steve Grossman.
In 1977 saxophonist and flutist Jacques Pelzer, whose daughter Micheline was married to Graillier, introduced him to Chet Baker.
For the next ten years, Graillier accompanied Baker.
He died in February 2003.
According to Graillier, he was influenced most by pianists Bud Powell, Bill Evans, and McCoy Tyner, and somewhat later Herbie Hancock in the Miles Davis quintet.
But Graillier has also said of his influences, "Of course, the influences are there, but it is not worth talking about them, they are part of the normal evolution of any musician. A musician simply wants to play, regardless of his knowledge of the language. He is therefore obliged to learn the language that others have developed over decades and this language becomes more and more intelligible over time, just as a kid learns to write. Above all, the influence of the great pianists and musicians is mainly of value in showing one how to find one's own voice."
In his short autobiography, Le Monde la Musique (The World and its Music), Graillier cited a phrase from Pascal Anquetil, "There floats through all his music, a dreamy and sweetly drifting mist. A climate of peace that restores one on a summer night without knowing exactly why."
Xavier Prévost wrote in the Dictionnaire du Jazz, "Michel Graillier constructed an internal dialogue of breathing that knew how to make room for silence."