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OLIVIER MANOURY was born in Tulle, (Limousin, France) in 1953.He moved to Paris with his parents as a child. He played bagpipes (cabrette) at folk music gatherings in the Bastille area bars where a lot of people from Auvergne lived. After grammar school he studied painting and sculpture at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and literature at the university of the Sorbonne where he got a masters degree in 1976.
OLIVIER MANOURY then became an instrument maker building violins ,violas, baroque and folk instruments. He started playing bandoneon and became a bandoneon tuner and restorer. He now concentrates exclusively on playing turning professional in 1979
Since then he has played in many traditional tango bands, accompanied many singers and created his own bands TANGONEON, TEMPO DI TANGO. He occasionally appears as a guest in jazz and other improvised music concerts and recordings (Arrigo Cappelletti Quartet in Milano). He also recorded a solo Bandoneon album in duo with the Uruguayan pianist Enrique Pascual, the baryton singer Jorge Chamine, Tangoneon ,the Paris based tango band Tempo di tango, The stockholm based Olivier Manoury septet, the Argentinean cartoonist/singer Serguei, the Uruguayan percussion player Jorge Trasante, the African singer Bonga and the American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater and Double bass Player Yves Torchinsky.
He is also formed KATINGA, a Jazz/candombe project with Xavier Girotto on sax, Carlos Tero Buschini on bass and Marcelo Russillo on drums
In his new quartet Oivier Manoury is accompanied by a strong Latin rhythmic, a Cuban and two Brazilians, for a music crossing tango, funk and Latin jazz.
He also plays accordina
OLIVIER MANOURY is also a composer and writes music for:movies (Catherine Breillat's "Sale comme un Ange"(Solveig Anspach 's Haut les Coeurs TV (Novacek for TV channel France2)circus shows (with joggler Nikolaus)dramma (Eva Peron by Copi in 1993 and Chantecler by Edmond Rostand in 1996 at the Theatre National de Chaillot)dance (he toured worldwide with Maurice B...t's dance /theater show Che Quijote y Bandoneon) ..
Olivier Manoury Quartet premiered in february in jazz club Le Trion and performed in Baiser Salé and in the famous parisian club New Morning
Listen to Olivier Manoury Quartet recorded live in New Morning in Paris in February2007:
D-minor again
Milongue
Desorden y Regreso
view Olivier Manoury quartet live at the New Morning in Paris
VILLES DE NUIT part1
VILLES DE NUIT part 2
Desorden y Regreso
View Olivier Manoury Quartet live in Le Baiser Salé in Paris, June 2007
