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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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Occupation Musician
Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 18 October, 1946
Birthday 18 October
Birthplace Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France
Date of death February 12, 2003
Died Place Paris
Nationality France

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1946

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.

1968

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.

1969

He made his first recording in 1969 with Steve Lacy.

For three years, he accompanied violinist Jean-Luc Ponty.

1970

His first album for Agartha Records appeared in 1970, on which he was accompanied by Alby Cullaz and Bernard Lubat.

During the same he year, he recorded Pianos Puzzle with Georges Arvanitas, René Urtreger, and Maurice Vander.

Due to personal problems, he withdrew from performing for a period of time.

1972

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.

He performed at the club Dréher in Paris and at Magnetic Terrasse, usually in trio with Alby Cullaz and Christian Vander, but also with Barney Wilen or Jacques Pelzer.

1977

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.

In addition, he played with Éric Le Lann, Philip Catherine, Jacques Thollot, Richard Raux, Jean-Pierre Debarbat, Alain Jean-Marie, Paolo Fresu, and Pharoah Sanders.

He appeared regularly in duo with bassist Riccardo Del Fra and in trio with Alby Cullaz and Simon Goubert.

In the course of his career, he accompanied singers Julos Beaucarne, Jacques Bertin, Maxime Le Forestier, Eddy Mitchell, Stéphanie Crawford, Elisabeth Caumont, and Stella Vander.

2003

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."

With Chet Baker