Daniel Humair
Swiss drummer and painter
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| Intro | Swiss drummer and painter | ||
| Places | Switzerland | ||
| is | Musician Composer Drummer Jazz musician Film score composer Singer Artist Painter Percussionist | ||
| Work field | Arts Film, TV, Stage & Radio Music | ||
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| Genres: | Jazz Tango music | ||
| Instruments: | Drum kit | ||
| Birth | 23 May 1938, Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland | ||
| Age | 86 years | ||
| Star sign | Gemini | ||
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The details
Biography
Daniel Humair (born 23 May 1938 in Geneva) is a drummer, composer, and painter.
He is widely renowned and became a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1986 and Officier in 1992. He has played with many jazz performers notably Jean-Luc Ponty, Chet Baker, Michel Portal, Martial Solal, Dexter Gordon, Gerry Mulligan and Eric Dolphy.
Humair is also a talented painter. He describes his own work as "figurative abstract" and has created a coherent œuvre proving his passion and knowledge of artistic painting.
Discography
- 1960 Connection
- 1960 Hum!!! René Urtreger, Pierre Michelot (Vega)
- 1960 Dermaplastic with Martial Solal
- 1962 Chet Is Back! with Chet Baker
- 1964 Jazz Long Playing with Jean-Luc Ponty, Michel Portal, Eddy Louiss (Philips)
- 1967 Sunday Walk with Jean-Luc Ponty, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Wolfgang Dauner (MPS)
- 1967 From Sticksland with Love with George Gruntz (MPS)
- 1968 European Episode and Impressive Rome with Lee Konitz and Martial Solal (Campi)
- 1969 It's Nice to Be With You with Jim Hall (MPS)
- 1971 Child of Gemini with Roland Hanna (MPS)
- 1971 Huffin'n'Puffin' with Ray Nance
- 1972 Morning! (Musica)
- 1974 Jazz à Juan with Lee Konitz (SteepleChase)
- 1975 Black Narcissus with Joe Henderson - (Milestone)
- 1979 Humair Jeanneau Texier with Henri Texier
- 1979 Triple hip trip with David Friedman (Owl/Universal)
- 1980 East Side West Side (Owl)
- 1980 Humair, Louiss and Ponty, Vol. 1 Dreyfus
- 1983 Wings with Franco Ambrosetti (Enja)
- 1985 Scratch with Kenny Barron (Enja)
- 1985 Tentets with Franco Ambrosetti (Enja)
- 1985 Easy to read with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
- 1986 Pastor with Michel Portal
- 1986 Welcome (Soul Note)
- 1986 Movies with Franco Ambrosetti (Enja)
- 1987 Surrounded 1964/1987 with Eric Dolphy, Portal, Solal, Texier, Louiss, Mulligan
- 1988 From Time to Time Free with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
- 1988 Movies Too with Franco Ambrosetti (Enja)
- 1988 9.11 pm Town Hall (Label Bleu)
- 1990 Up Date 3.3 with François Jeanneau and Henry Texier (Label Bleu)
- 1991 Earthcake (Label Bleu)
- 1991 Edges (Label Bleu)
- 1991 Humair, Louiss and Ponty, Vol. 2 (Dreyfus)
- 1993 Open Architecture (Ninety-One)
- 1993 Usual confusion with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
- 1996 L'opera de Quat'sous – Die Dreigroschenoper – The Threepenny Opera with Joachim Kühn and Jean-François Jenny-Clark
- 1996 Akagera (JMS)
- 1997 Trio HLP (Dreyfus)
- 1998 Quatre Fois Trois (Label Bleu)
- 1998 Die Dreigroschenoper (Polygram)
- 1999 Triple Entente (Mercury/Universal)
- 1999 Humair Urtreger Michelot (Sketch)
- 2001 Liberté Surveillée (Sketch)
- 2003 Baby Boom (Sketch)
- 2003 Paris Abstractions with Benjamin Koppel (sax) and Palle Danielsson (bass)
- 2006 European Jazz Factory with Benjamin Koppel (sax), Gueorgui Kornazov (trombone), Cedric Piromalli (piano) and Thommy Andersson (bass)
- 2009 Baby Boom II (Bee Jazz/NRW)
- 2010 Pas de Dense (Zig Zag Territoires)
- 2011 Quatre-Trois-Deux-Un with Benjamin Koppel (sax), Jakob Anderskov (piano) and Thommy Andersson (bass)
- 2012 Project Cristal