François Carrier
b. 5 June 1961, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada. Carrier began his career as a professional jazz musician, playing alto saxophone in Vancouver in 1979. He soon attracted attention from fellow musicians and a growing audience through his often audacious approach to his music. Based since 1982 in Montreal, he has shown himself to be a fluid and inventive performer of improvised music, especially since the formation in 1990 of his trio, in which he was joined by bass player Pierre Coté and drummer Michel Lambert. Following the release of Intuition, which was nominated as Jazz Album Of The Year at the 1998 Gala de l’ADISQ (Québec’s Music Awards show), Carrier’s trio toured Europe, playing at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Also in 1998, Carrier founded Nouvel Ensemble De Musique Improvisée (NoEMI), a gathering of like-minded free players, among whom have been Dewey Redman and Sonny Greenwich.
Early in 2002, Carrier spent some months composing new works in Rome, having won an award by the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. More tours of Canada and some European countries followed, as did more acclaimed albums. Over the years, in concert and sometimes on record, Carrier’s trio has been augmented by guest pianists who have included Steve Amirault, who appeared on Carrier’s Juno Award-winning Compassion (2000), Paul Bley and Gary Peacock, heard on Traveling Lights (2004), Uri Caine, on All’Alba (2003), Jason Moran and Bobo Stenson. Among other musicians with whom he has worked are Mat Maneri, Uwe Neumann and Gary Peacock.
Carrier’s sound is tough and he attacks his music with verve and unpredictability, demanding, and successfully receiving from audiences, attention to and understanding of the swiftly changing moods he explores.
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Discography
6 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Travelling Lights
Jazz - Released by Justin Time Records Inc. on 27 Apr 2004
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Inner Spire
François Carrier, Alexey Lapin, Michel Lambert
Contemporary Jazz - Released by LEO RECORDS on 1 Jan 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Unknowable
François Carrier, Rafał Mazur, Michel Lambert
Classical - Released by NotTwo on 1 Nov 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Within
François Carrier, Michel Lambert, Jean-Jacques Avenel
Jazz - Released by LEO RECORDS on 1 Sep 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
In Motion
François Carrier, Michel Lambert, Alexey Lapin
Contemporary Jazz - Released by LEO RECORDS on 1 May 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Being With
Veronique Dubois, François Carrier
Jazz - Released by LEO RECORDS on 1 Mar 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo