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Jacques
BISCEGLIA
Born October 21st,
1940, in Paris, France.
bisceglia.jazz@wanadoo.fr
<www.jacquesbisceglia.com>
Jazz and
music-related activities:
First serious contacts
with photography, under the guidance of Marc Garanger, while
drafted in Algeria (1960-1962). Specialised in Jazz
photography since 1965 (over 200.000 photos in files,
including 80.000 in colour).
Photos published in
various magazines and newspapers in France - Actuel, Jazz Magazine, Jazz Hot,
Jazzman, Jazz Classique, Free sons, Afro-music,
Libération, L'Express, Paroles et musiques,
Télérama, Cable hebdo, Télécable
Hebdo, Canal Satellite, TV Hebdo, Résonance (Ircam),
Revue de la Cité de la Musique, Diapason, Le Bas de
l'Aisne, Histoire & Patrimoine n°4 &endash; Paris,
Paris Match, etc.-, and abroad - Down Beat, The Village
Voice, Melody Maker, The Wire, Jazz Wereld, Jazz Forum,
Svenska Dagbladet, Swing Journal, Epoca, etc.
Photos on hundreds of Jazz
record sleeves in France (Adès, America, Blue Sound,
Buda, Byg, EmArcy, EPM, Eurogram, 52ème rue Est, Free
Bird, Gitanes, Goody, la Guilde du disque, I.R.I.,
Jazzmosphère, Magnetic, Marge, Monkey, Owl, Polydor,
Promophone, R.C.A., Suave, Universal, Vogue, Zeta...), in
the U.S.A. (C.B.S., Eremite, Fuel Records, Verve), in Japan
(Black Lion, Byg, Tono), in Great-Britain (Affinity, Black
Lion, Charlie...), in Portugal (Byg), in Germany (Black
Lion), in Norway (Landscape), in Italy (Fruit Tree, Get
Back, Sunspots), and in Holland...
Photos published in many
books, including Les Dieux du Soul, Phyl Garland (Buchet-Chastel,
Paris, 1972), Revoluçào do
Jazz, Jorge Lima
Barreto (Editorial Inova Limitada, Porto, Portugal, 1972),
Jazz, André Francis (Editions du
Seuil, Paris, 1970's), several books in the "Bouquins"
collection (Robert Laffont, Paris, 1980's), Le Monde du Jazz, Rodney Dale
(Elsevier-Séquoia, Bruxelles, 1980/Bordas, Paris,
1982), Un
Demi-siècle de Jazz (Editions de l'Instant, Paris,
1986), Pink Floyd,
Jean-Marie Leduc
(Editions Seghers, Paris, 1987), Trois kilos de café,
Manu Dibango &
Danielle Rouard (Lieu commun, Paris, 1989), Les Cahiers du CENAM, H.S. Danse
Jazz (Paris,
1991), L'Epopée du Jazz -
2/Au-delà du bop, Franck Bergerot & Arnaud
Merlin (Découvertes, Gallimard, Paris, 1991),
The Story of Jazz /
Bop and beyond,
Franck Bergerot & Arnaud Merlin (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
Publishers, New York, 1993), The Story of Jazz / Bop and
beyond, Franck
Bergerot & Arnaud Merlin (Thames & Hudson, London,
1993), Duke
Ellington,
François Billard & Gilles Tordjman (Editions du
Seuil, Paris, 1994), Musique musiques
musique, Patrice
Blanc-Francart (Edition°1, Paris, 1994),
Les Années
Jazz Magazine, 40 ans de passion (Editions Filpacchi, Paris, 1994),
Stéphane
Grappelli, Michel
Laverdure et Latin Jazz, Isabelle Leymarie (Vade Retro,
Paris, 1998), Art
Ensemble of Chicago - Great Black Music, Ancient to the
Future, Lincoln T.
Beauchamp Jr (Chicago, 1998), Coltrane, Pascal Bussy (Librio Musique,
E.J.L., Paris, 1999), Notoriété et
légitimation en jazz - L'exemple de Rahsaan Roland
Kirk, Matthieu
Jouan (Editions L'Harmattan, Paris, 1999), Le Jazz Français, de 1900
à aujourd'hui, Jean-Dominique Brierre (Editions
Hors collection, Paris, 2000), Plaisirs de cigare, Franck Médioni (Eden
Productions, Paris, 2000), Jazz en suite, collective (Editions du
Garde-Temps, Paris, 2000), Les Années Jazz Magazine
1954-2000,
collectif (Editions Filipacchi, Paris, 2000),
Bill
Evans, Alain
Gerber (Fayard, Paris, 2001), and Le Jazz dans tous ses
états,
Franck Bergerot (Larousse, Paris, 2001), Underground :
l'Histoire, edited
by Jean-François Bizot (Actuel-Denoël, Paris,
2001) and Miles
Davis, l'ange noir, Noel Balen (Editions Mille et une
nuits-Arte Editions, Paris, 2001), Taches de Jazz, Edmond Baudoin (Le 9ème
Monde, Paris, 2002) and Une histoire du jazz moderne :
Joachim Kühn,
Marc Sarrazy (Editions Syllepse, Paris, 2003).
Photos in the movie about
Moondog (FR3, France, 1989).
Photos published in the CD ROM Musiques? (Gallimard Jeunesse-France
Télécom, 1997).
Photos published in several programs such as the
11ème
Festival de Jazz de Paris (1990), Sons d'Hiver (2001) and Centre Culturel
Aragon
(Tremblay-en-France, 2003-04), and on several posters
(Albert Nicholas, Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, Sun Ra, Frank
Wright, Kamlo Trio, Barry Harris, etc.).
Wrote many liner notes on
record covers : Byg, la Guilde du disque, Hot Club Records,
Monkey, Pathé-Marconi, Suave...
Producer and A & R for
the recording sessions - Affinity, Buda, Byg, Free Bird, la
Guilde du Disque, Marge, Monkey...- of many artists
including Ruby Braff, Anthony Braxton, Dave Burrell, Don
Cherry, the Chicago Art Ensemble, Stéphane Grappelli,
Hampton Hawes, Barney Kessel, Joachim Kuhn, Steve Kuhn,
Steve Lacy, Jimmy Lyons, Grachan Moncur III, Sunny Murray,
Red Norvo, Dewey Redman, Sonny & Linda Sharrock, Archie
Shepp, Alan Silva, Martial Solal, Sun Ra & his Arkestra,
Cliff Thornton, Joe Venuti and Frank Wright.
Artistic director for the
Jazzland club, Paris (1965-1966) : including Ornette Coleman
Trio (with David Izenzon and Charles Moffett), Dexter Gordon
Quartet (with Art Taylor), Johnny Griffin Quartet (with Art
Taylor), Roland Kirk Quartet, Sonny Rollins Trio (with Art
Taylor), Cecil Taylor Quartet (with Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva
and Andrew Cyrille).
Produced the Alan Silva's
Celestrial Communication Orchestra concert, Radio House,
Paris, December 29th, 1970. The band included, among others,
Alan Shorter, Lester Bowie, Bernard Vitet (tp), Steve Lacy,
Robin Kenyatta, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Michel
Portal (reeds), Joachim Kühn, Dave Burrell (p), Kent
Carter (b), Don Moye, Jerome Cooper, Oliver Johnson
(dms).
Toured with the Herbie
Mann Sextet (France, Germany, 1970), Sun Ra & his
Arkestra (France, Germany, 1970, and U.S.A., 1971), and
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra (France, Belgium,
Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, 1976) as a
photographer and an interpreter; and with Dave Burrell Unit
(Japan, 2001) as a photographer.
From 1985 till 1991, agent
of the legendary Slim Gaillard (from Slim & Slam, and
the movie "Hellzapoppin'").
Articles and interviews
published in the French magazines Actuel, Jazz Magazine, Free sons,
Impro Jazz, Jazzman and Jazz Special.
Member of the panel
"Souvenirs and encounters with Afro-American musicians" at
the International Conference "April in Paris" - African
American Music and Europe, Centre d'études
Afro-Américaines, Université de la Sorbonne
Nouvelle, in collaboration with W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for
Afro-American Research (Harvard University) and Collegium
for African-American Research, The Sorbonne, Paris, April
26th, 1996.
Member of the panel "Jazz and photography", "Jazz and
Litterature" and "Jazz and comics", during the Jazz Festival
"Jazz sur son 31", Toulouse, France, october 1996.
Member of the panel "Université du jazz", La Villette
Jazz Festival, Paris, July 6th, 2001.
In charge of the panel
"Paris, so free (jazz) ", La Maison du Jazz, Paris, April
7th, 2002.
Conferencer on "Free Jazz in Paris and in France", Festival
Free Jazz and Cinema, Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium, April
25th, 2004.
Producer at the National
radio station France Musique, Radio France, Paris (Le Temps
du Jazz, 1980's.
Associate teacher in the
Jazz Department of the National Superior Conservatory for
Music and Dance in Paris, 2001/2003.
Member of the Board
(Treasurer) of the French Academy of Jazz, Paris.
Photo
exhibitions:
Exhibitions
alone: Maison de
la Culture, Grenoble (1975), Maison de la Culture,
Orléans (1975), Paris (1976, 1985), Osaka, Japan
(2001), Festival UNCOOL, Poschiavo, Switzerland (5/6-2003),
Le Bateau-Lavoir, Paris (9-2003), les Broches à
l'ancienne, Paris (13-1/14-2-2004), Paris
Jazz Corner, Paris
(12-2/17-7-2004), Cinéma
Nova, Brussels,
Belgium (8/22-4-2004), CrocoJazz, Paris (30-4/17-7-2004),
Concarneau (23/25-7-2004), Librairie Alfarabista, Paris
(10-2004), and Lyon (11-2004).
Collective
exhibitions: Paris
(1969, 1972, 1976, 1985, 1991, 2000), Rouen (1969), Orly
(1970), Colombes (1972), Châteauvallon (1972),
Bourg-la-Reine (1986), and New-York (1987).
Interview:
"Jacques Bisceglia -
Routard du Jazz", interview by Matthieu Jouan & Nicolas
Fèvre, So what n°35, Paris, june 1999.
Publishing and
book-related activities:
Since 1976, permanent
contributor (articles, interviews and photographs) and
secretary of redaction to the French magazine "Le
Collectionneur de bandes dessinées" (Paris), and to
the bi-yearly book Trésors de la bande
dessinée / B.D.M (Paris).
Since 2003, editor to the French magazine "Papier
Nickelé" (Paris).
Writings published in the French magazines "Charlie
mensuel", "Vécu", "Le Fulmar", "Encrage,
encyclopédie permanente de l'autre
littérature", and "Le 9ème Art".
Lay-out designer for the First series of the magazine
"Actuel" (Paris, 1969-1970) and for the book collection
"Images" (Editions Corps 9, France).
Editor for the book collections "Harry Dickson" (24 books),
"Fantastique" (8 books) and "Images" (3 books), Editions
Corps 9, France.
Other
activities:
Creator with Sylvie Brod
of the exhibition "Voyage en Underground", during the 13th
International Comics Convention, Angoulème, France,
1986.
U.N.E.S.C.O. expert, in
Paris, for comic books, comix, comics original art work,
detective and science-fiction books, Jazz records and Jazz
books.
Member of the "Aide
à la création et à l'édition de
bandes dessinées" Committee, Centre national des
lettres, Ministère de la Culture, Paris.
Conferencer on the
relationship between "Oyvind Fahlström and Robert
Crumb", Institut d'Art.
Since 1976, "Bouquiniste"
on the Parisian Seine waterfront.
Bibliography:
- Trésors du roman policier,
de la science-fiction et du fantastique, catalogue encyclopédique
(with Roland Buret), éditions de l'Amateur, Paris,
1981.
- Trésors du
roman policier,
2ème
édition,
catalogue encyclopédique, éditions de
l'Amateur, Paris, 1984.
- Black & white
fantasy, 127
photos on Jazz (with writings by Marc Garanger, Jean-Pierre
Leloir, Hart Leroy Bibbs, Abbey Lincoln and Marion Brown),
Editions Corps 9, Troèsnes, France, 1984.
- Underground
U.S.A.,
la bande
dessinée de la contestation (with Sylvie Brod),
éditions Corps 9, Troèsnes, 1986 (published
with a grant from the Centre national des lettres,
Ministère de la Culture, Paris).
- Conte de
Noël, short
story in Chats,
femmes et autres machines cruelles, Editions Corps 9, Troesnes,
France, 1986.
- Absurdes, gentils
ou pervers : les animaux de l'Underground (with Sylvie Brod), in
Animaux en cases,
une histoire critique de la bande dessinée
animalière,
éditions Futuropolis, Paris, 1987 (published with a
grant from the Centre national des lettres, Ministère
de la Culture, Paris).
- Argus des
Littératures policières, 3ème édition,
catalogue encyclopédique, éditions Joseph K.,
Nantes, to be published on September 2005.
- Contributor to several Guide du routard, éditions Hachette, Paris,
1980's.
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