Born in 1945, France, saxophonist (alto and baritone). 1973-79 : beginner as a free-bop saxophonist (3 records with bassist Saheb Sarbib), then progressively involved in the jazz avant-garde (Tchicai, Lacy, Braxton as major influences). Until 1981, concerts in solo, in duet/trio with bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel or pianist Siegfried Kessler. 1982-86 : developments in free improvisation with Tristan Honsinger, Raymond Boni, Evan Parker, George Lewis, Joëlle Léandre, Irène Schweizer, Sakis Papadimitriou... Takes part in festivals of Rive-de-Gier, Le Mans, Genève (AMR), Grenoble, Sens, Willisau, Londres (Actual)... 1985 : trio with violonist Carlos “Zingaro” and bassist Jean Bolcato. 1987-1991 : trio with Michel Doneda and Lê Quan Ninh. They play in most of places and festivals open to improvised music. Since 1991, baritone sax joins the alto. Duet with Joe McPhee. From 1993, return to certain jazz forms : "Outlaws in jazz" with trumpet player Jac Berrocal, bassist Didier Levallet and drummer Dennis Charles ; "And His Orchestra", with J. Bolcato and Christain Rollet. Concurrently with several quartets dedicated to creative improvisation with Joe McPhee, André Jaume and Jérôme Bourdellon ; with Joe McPhee, Raymond Boni and Claude Tchamitchian ; with Urs Leimgruber, Thierry Madiot and Paul Rogers. 1994 : duet with singer Annick Nozati. 1995 : duet with C. “Zingaro” ; european tour with E. Parker and J. McPhee. 1996 : quintet "Dourou" with J. McPhee, D. Levallet, P. Rogers and C. Rollet ; "Les diseurs de musique" with poet Serge Pey, M. Doneda and Lê Quan Ninh ; features in C. Tchamitchian’s ensemble "Louzadsak" and "Grand Lousadzak", Claude Barthélémy quartet and Didier Petit’s formation NOHC. 1997-98 : guest soloist in the O.N.J. (Jazz National Orchestra) conducted by D. Levallet. 1999 : tour in Finland with "And His Orchestra" ; french tour with C. “Zingaro”. 2001 : "Madly you", quartet with J. Léandre, C. “Zingaro”, P. Lovens ; european tour with Mats Gustafsson’s "Nu ensemblen". 2002 : french tour with "Aérolithes", quartet with M. Doneda, violonist Mickaël Nick and cello player L. Hoevenaers. 2003, trio with P. Rogers and P. Lovens in several festivals (Sons d'hiver, Jazz d'or in France and Nickelsdorf in Austria). 2004 : european tour with the quartet McPhee / Lazro / Boni / Tchamitchian. Solo concert at Fimav, Victoriaville (Canada). 2005 : creation of "Le Cercle", of C. Zekri, with Le Diwan de Biskra.
2006 : Music of “Exilith”, a play of Reza Baraheni, directed by Thierry Bedard.
French tour with Le New Lousadzak.
2007 : creation of “qwat neum sixx” with Sophie Agnel (piano), Michaël Nick (violins) and Jérôme Noetinger (électroacoustic), in various festivals (Muzzix in Lille, Musique action in Vandoeuvre, NPAI in Parthenay…).
2008 : creation of a trio with R. Turner (dms) and J.-F. Pauvros (g)
“Daunik Lazro is a musician of great integrity who has remained faithful to the aesthetics he chose at the beginning of his career. This implies a spontaneity and and lyricism in his playing, an expressiveness that is to be considered as his testimony and that can only come about by free improvisation (this applies to the cry as well as the song), and listening to himself as well as others. His saxophone touches the passions, in echo to the incantations of Ayler or the dynamics of Ornette Coleman; but make no mistake, it also conveys the utmost tenderness.”
Jean-Paul Ricard (in “LeDictionnaire du jazz”, Ed. Laffont)
SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY
Compact Discs Live at festival NPAI 2007, with qwat neum sixx (amor fati, 2009) Alive at Sonorités, duet with Phil Minton (émouvance, 2007) Human Songs, with Le New Lousadzak (émouvance, 2006) Rekmazladzep, 4tet with T. Madiot, D. Répécaud & C. Zekri (Vand'oeuvre, 2006)
Next to You, 4tet with J. McPhee, R. Boni & C. Tchamitchian, (émouvance, 2005)
Le Cercle, C. Zekri (La nuit transfigurée, 2005)
Aérolithes, 4tet with M. Doneda, L. Hoevenaers & M. Nick (Vand'oeuvre, 2005)
Le petit bruit d'à côté du coeur du monde, with Kristoff K. Roll (Vand'oeuvre, 2002)
Madly you, 4tet with J. Léandre, C. “Zingaro” and Paul Lovens (Potlatch, 2002) Zong Book, solo (émouvance, 2000) Hauts Plateaux, duet with C. “Zingaro” (Potlatch, 1998) And His Orchestra, trio with J. Bolcato and C. Rollet (Bleu regard, 1998) Dourou, 5tet with J. McPhee, D. Levallet, Paul Rogers and Christian Rollet (Bleu regard, 1997) Trio, with J. McPhee and Evan Parker (Vand’oeuvre, 1996) Periferia, with C. “Zingaro”, Sakis Papadimitriou and Jean Bolcato (In Situ, 1995) Outlaws in Jazz, 4tet with Jac Berrocal, Didier Levallet and Dennis Charles (Bleu regard, 1994) Elan Impulse, duet with Joe McPhee (In Situ, 1991) Concert public, trio with Lê Quan Ninh and M. Doneda (In Situ, 1990) General Gramophon, with Michel Doneda, Hugh Burns, Laurence Cottle, Stuart Elliott (Nato, 1988)
Vinyles Sweet Zee, with J.-J. Avenel, Tristan Honsinger, Toshinori Kondo, Raymond Boni, Carlos “Zingaro”, Joëlle Léandre and George Lewis (Hat Hut, 1985) Aeros, duet with Siegfried Kessler (Hat Hut, 1982) The Entrance gates of Tshee Park, solo and duet with Jean-Jacques Avenel (Hat Hut, 1980)
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