Pierre-Antoine Badaroux

© Joel Grip
On stage, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux is a saxophonist. Off stage, he composes, arranges, researches, reconstructs or deconstructs his own music or that of others.
As a member of the Umlaut collective, he is involved since 2009 in the production, live or recorded of a wide diversity of music: jazz, contemporary improvisation or composition and experimental music.
As artistic director of the Umlaut Big Band, he deepens, through practice, a reflection on the history of jazz, its rereading and the work of arrangers. His work on Don Redman and Mary Lou Williams, co-produced by the Philharmonie de Paris, has led to the discovery and performance of many forgotten works. He is currently working with the Mary Lou Williams Foundation, Inc. to publish a critical edition of her works. In 2023 he has conducted the premiere of Williams’ Zodiac Suite for chamber orchestra in its entirety.
To enable him to pursue studying historical jazz manuscripts, he has been selected as a Villa Albertine 2023 resident.
He is currently a member of the Peeping Tom quartet (Axel Dörner, Joel Grip and Antonin Gerbal), of Jupiter Terminus (Jean-Luc Guionnet and Antonin Gerbal), of Protocluster (Bertrand Denzler, Benjamin Dousteyssier, Antonin Gerbal).
He co-directed with Sébastien Beliah the Hodos Ensemble, dedicated to the interpretation of open works. They have collaborated with composers Philip Corner, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Bertrand Denzler, Peter Ablinger and Hannes Lingens. With ONCEIM he has premiered pieces by Eliane Radigue, Peter Ablinger, Ellen Arkbro or John Tilbury.
Since 2015, he is co-organizer of the Jazz Series, a concert series that draws from the often forgotten repertoire of jazz.
To date, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux has recorded more than twenty discographic references.
- Band Housing - Brake's Sake
- Ensemble Hodos - Live at La Dynamo des Banlieues Bleues, 2016 (extrait 1)
- Ensemble Hodos - Live at La Dynamo des Banlieues Bleues, 2016 (extrait 2)
- Jupiter Terminus (extrait)
- Peeping Tom - Boperation - Up Jumped the Devil
- Peeping Tom - Four girls
- Umlaut Big Band - Alexander Von Schlippenbach, 2019
- Umlaut Big Band - Mary's Ideas -"Gjon Mili's Jam Session"
- Umlaut Big Band - The King of Bungle Bar
- Umlaut Chamber Orchestra - Zodiac Suite - Scorpio
Albums
File Under : Bebop (CD)
#03 (CD)
Boperation (CD)
Composition No.6 (CD)
Nelson's Jacket (4 LPs)
The Braxtornette Project (CD)
Lifework : A Unity 1. Culture (Tradition, Assimilation) 1950-59 (CD)
Lifework : A Unity 2. The World (Graphic Innovations & Indeterminacy) 1960-75 (CD)
Lifework : A Unity 3. Mind (Instruction Pages With Examples ; Precisions Added To Freedom) 1972-89 (CD)
Four Girls (CD)
Euro Swing Vol.1 (CD)
Euro Swing Vol.2 (CD)
The King of Bungle Bar: Umlaut Big Band plays Don Redman (CD)
Mary's Ideas : Umlaut Big Band plays Mary Lou Williams (double CD)
Zodiac Suite (CD)
Scores
Presse
- 30/10/2022
Syncopated Times, Umlaut Big Band - 19/04/2022
Nieuwe Noten, Mary's Ideas - 02/03/2022
RTBF, Mary's Ideas - 12/02/2022
RTS, Mary's Ideas - 06/02/2022
Citizen Jazz, Mary's Ideas - 01/01/2022
Point of Departure, Mary's Ideas - 01/01/2022
The Wire, Mary's Ideas - 17/12/2021
Charles Cros, Mary's Ideas - 17/12/2021
NDR, Mary's Ideas - 16/12/2021
All About Jazz, Mary's Ideas - 05/12/2021
Free Jazz Blog, Mary's Ideas - 03/12/2021
Jazz Word, Mary's Ideas - 18/11/2021
Le Souffle Bleu, Mary's Ideas - 11/11/2021
Culture Jazz, Mary's Ideas - 02/11/2021
Hot Club, Mary's Ideas - 31/10/2021
Fragile, Mary's Ideas - 25/10/2021
Radio France, Mary's Ideas - 14/10/2021
All About Jazz, Mary's Ideas - 06/10/2021
Le Monde, Mary's Ideas - 04/10/2021
Overblog, Mary's Ideas - 04/10/2021
Blog de Choc, Mary's Ideas - 01/10/2021
Jazz News, Mary's Ideas - 30/09/2021
Jazz Magazine, Mary's Ideas - 30/09/2021
TSF Jazz, Mary's Ideas - 30/09/2021
Froggy's delight, Mary's Ideas - 28/09/2021
Le Grigri, Mary's Ideas - 27/09/2021
Culture Jazz, Mary's Ideas - 20/09/2021
Couleurs Jazz Media, Mary's Ideas - 20/09/2021
The Quietus, Mary's Ideas - 16/09/2021
Pointbreak, Mary's Ideas - 16/09/2021
Latins de Jazz, Mary's Ideas - 15/09/2021
Radio France, Mary's Ideas - 11/09/2021
Daniel Yvinec, Mary's Ideas - 31/08/2021
Radio France, Mary's Ideas - 03/07/2021
Radio France, Mary's Ideas - 03/07/2020
Le Monde, Umlaut Big Band - 23/06/2021
Le Grigri, Mary's Ideas - 21/10/2020
Muzykoteka, Lumpeks - 14/12/2018
Citizen Jazz, The King of Bungle Bar - 14/12/2018
Académie Charles Cros, The King of Bungle Bar - 30/11/2018
Couleurs Jazz, The King of Bungle Bar - 26/11/2018
Le Grigri, The King of Bungle Bar - 26/11/2018
Culture Jazz, The King of Bungle Bar - 25/11/2018
Jazz à bâbord, The King of Bungle Bar - 14/10/2018
Le Dauphiné libéré, The King of Bungle Bar - 08/10/2018
France Musique, The King of Bungle Bar - 02/10/2018
TSF Jazz, The King of Bungle Bar - 02/10/2018
Les Dernières Nouvelles du Jazz, The King of Bungle Bar - 01/10/2018
Jazz Magazine, The King of Bungle Bar - 21/09/2018
Radio Campus Paris, The King of Bungle Bar - 20/09/2018
Libération, The King of Bungle Bar - 08/09/2018
Culture Jazz, The King of Bungle Bar - 28/08/2018
France Musique, The King of Bungle Bar - 25/08/2018
Télérama, The King of Bungle Bar - 07/06/2018
Télérama, The King of Bungle Bar - 07/08/2018
Jazz News, The King of Bungle Bar - 20/07/2018
L'Est Républicain, The King of Bungle Bar
Agenda - Pierre-Antoine Badaroux
Umlaut Big Band
AERI, Montreuil (FR)
Umlaut Small Band
10-17/11/23 Umlaut Small Band plays Mary Lou Williams
Théâtre de Saint- Quentin-en-Yvelines, scène nationale (FR)