Alex Bugnon
Contemporary jazz keyboard player Alex Bugnon, nephew of trumpeter Donald Byrd, grew up going to the Montreux Jazz Festival in his hometown in Switzerland. He attended the Paris Conservatory of Music for two years, then moved to the U.S. and went to the Berklee School of Music, meanwhile performing as an accompanist to gospel groups. He spent four years working as a session musician in New York, backing urban and jazz performers such as Patti Austin, Freddie Jackson, James Ingram, and Keith Sweat. Signed to Orpheus Records, he released his debut album, Love Season, in 1989. It reached the pop charts and the Top 40 of the R&B charts, as did its follow-up, 1990's Head Over Heels. Subsequent releases -- 107 Degrees in the Shade (1991), This Time Around (1993), and Tales From the Bright Side (1995), the last on RCA Records -- all placed in the R&B charts. After five years away from recording under his own name, Bugnon signed to the jazz division of Narada Records, which marketed him as a jazz artist, and his sixth album, Alex Bugnon...As Promised, reached the contemporary jazz charts. He followed in 2001 with Soul Purpose.
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Discography
10 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Harlem
Contemporary Jazz - Released by Alex Bugnon on 29 Nov 2013
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Going Home
Contemporary Jazz - Released by Xela Productions, Inc. on 8 Jan 2010
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107 In The Shade
Jazz - Released by Orpheus - Epic on 10 Sep 1991
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Love Season
Jazz - Released by EMI - EMI Records (USA) on 1 Jan 1989
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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This Time Around (Album Version)
R&B - Released by Epic on 1 Jun 1993
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Head Over Heels
Jazz - Released by EMI - EMI Records (USA) on 1 Jan 1990
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo