Jean Bordé

Jean Bordé plays improvised music on doublebass. He’s working on extending the range of sounds through very personal technics so as to get as far as possible from the usual understanding of the bass. He discovered the beauty of improvisation at 15, while he was playing piano, during Dartington Summerschool with Keith Tippett..................................................... ............................................................ ............................................................ ...... He is currently a member of the amazingly wierdo DIKTAT quartet with HarS, Rébus and Rinus van Alebeek (check on myspace.com/diktatquartet ) , a trio with Dan Warburton (violin) and Pascal Marzan (guitar), another one with Steve Beresford (electronic toys) and Simon H. Fell (doublebass) , and one with Bertrand Gauguet (saxophones) and Didier Lasserre (percussions)........AND WE’RE STILL LOOKING FOR GIGS!!!! ............................................................ ............................................................ ......... He’s been performing at least once with Rinus van Alebeek, Sofi Amiard, Boris Baltschun, Christine Bard, Marc Baron, Claire Barratt, Pascal Battus, Alexandre Bellanger, Steve Beresford, Philippe Berger, Olivier Besson, Frédéric Blondy, Hervé Boghossian, Sébastien Bouhana, Gilles Boussaud, Etienne Brunet, Loran Brunet, Laurent Bruttin, Christian Bücher, Chris Burn, Nicolas Cambon, Lucio Capece, Brice Catherin, Gulrim Choi, Paed Conca, Massimo Carrozzo, Jean-Marc Chouvel, Sébastien Cirotteau, John Cuny, Bertrand Denzler, Vincent Diels, Benjamin Duboc, Quentin Dubost, Jean-Jacques Duerinckx, Markus Eichenberger, Laurent Estoppey, Dante Feijoo, Simon H. Fell, Jean-Daniel Ficker, Bertrand Gauguet, Andreas Glauser, Yoshihiro Goseki, David Gross, HarS, Jassem Hindi, Karsten Hochapfel, Charlotte Hug, Matthew Hutchinson, Marlène Joebstl, Catherine Karako, Ayako Kato, Mazen Kerbaj, Saiko Kino, Hans Koch, Jonas Kocher, Hiroko Komiya, Martin Küchen, Fabian Kuratli, Didier Lasserre, Le Quan Ninh, Benoît Legrain, Lena Circus, DJ Lenar, Lembe Lokk, Ramon Lopez, Frantz Loriot, Madame P., Thierry Madiot, Isao Makino, Jean-Sébastien Mariage, Thierry Mariétan, Pascal Marzan, Glenn Marzin, Ken-ichi Matsumoto, John Menoud, Yoko Miura, Benoît Moreau, Alexis Morel, Mori-shige, Seijiro Murayama, Wade Matthews, Kanji Nakao, Nozal Cube, Teruyuki Ohshima, Yuko Ota, Agnès Palier, Andrea Parkins, Claude Parle, Jean-François Paux, Edward Perraud, Vincent Piot, Polo, Jim Pugliese, Reto Pulfer, Valentine Quintin, Raphael Raccuia, Margrit Rieben, Stéphane Rives, Jason Roebke, John Russell, Bechir Saade, Evelyne Saunier, Peter Scuback, Christine Sehnaoui, Sharif Sehnaoui, Julien Sirjacq, Quentin Sirjacq, Swiss Improvisers Orchestra, Ishihara Takayuki, Atsushi Takenouchi, Iannick Tallet, Hans Tammen, Dragos Tara, Silvia Tarozzi, Taylor, Tatara Toki, Andras Vigh, Hugues Vincent, Deborah Walker, Fred Wallich, Dan Warburton, Maki Watanabe, Jack Wright, Raed Yassin, Ryu-ichi Yoshida, Tarik Zulficar. ............................................................ ............................................................ ............................................................ ................................ Before that, Jean Bordé played and studied Classical and Contemporary at Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, Jazz (with Jacques Vidal) and Tango (with Juan José Mosalini). He sometimes, but not enough, composes with pleasure for films or radio.