Laurent Cugny

Laurent Cugny

LAURENT CUGNY
Born April 14, 1955
Musician, teacher, writer

Prizes and awards

• "Golden Django " for the best french band to the Orchestre National de Jazz Laurent Cugny (1997)
• "Reminiscing" among the 10 best jazz albums of the year (Jazzman magazine - 1996) "Jazzman" (1996)
• "Prix Boris Vian" to the album "Reminiscing" (Académie du jazz - 1996)
• Académie Charles-Cros Prize to the album "Santander" (1991)
• Django Reinhardt Prize (Académie du Jazz - 1989)
• "Golden Django" to the book "Electrique, Miles Davis 1968-1975"
• "Charles Delaunay Prize" to the book "Electrique, Miles Davis 1968-1975" (Académie du jazz - 1993)
• "Charles Delaunay Prize" to the book "Las Vegas Tango - Une Vie de Gil Evans" (Académie du jazz - 1991)

Publications

• 1989 - "Las Vegas Tango - Une vie de Gil Evans" (Editions P.O.L.) translated in japanese in 1996.
• 1993 - "Electrique - Miles Davis 1968-1975" (éd. André Dimanche).
• 1978-1997 - Articles for Cinématographe, Jazz Magazine, Jazzman, Télérama, Les Cahiers du Jazz, Le Jazz, La Revue d'Analyse Musicale, revue La Mazarine...

Education, Research and Internet

• 1996 - Presentation at the 2nd Miles Davis Conference (St. Louis University, U.S.A.)
• 1997 - Presentation at the Miles Davis Conference (University of Padova, Italy).
• 1997 - Presentation at IRCAM (Paris).
• 1999 - Creation of the official Gil Evans site on the Internet (on-line summer 1999).

DISCOGRAPHY

• "Lumière", Big band de Laurent Cugny (Open JZ 03, 1981)
• "Eaux-fortes", Big Band Lumière (Ecorce ECO LC1, 1984)
• "Rhythm-A-Ning", Gil Evans - Laurent Cugny - Big Band Lumière (EmArcy 836-401-2, 1988)
• "Golden Hair", Gil Evans - Laurent Cugny - Big Band Lumière (EmArcy 838 773-2, 1989)
• "The Complete Recordings", Gil Evans - Laurent Cugny - Big Band Lumière (EmArcy 838 794-2, 1989)
• "Santander", Big Band Lumière (EmArcy 838 266-2, 1991)
• "Dromesko", Big Band Lumière (EmArcy 514 303-2, 1993)
• "Beyond Cool", Lucky Peterson (Verve 521 147-2, 1993)
• "Yesternow", Orchestre National de Jazz / Laurent Cugny (Verve 522 511-2, 1994)
• "Scampi Fritti", Marc Beacco (Verve 523 802-2, 1994)
• "A Turtle's Dream", Abbey Lincoln (Verve 523 802-2, 1995)
• "Reminiscing", Orchestre National de Jazz / Laurent Cugny (Verve 532 437-2 , 1995)
• "In Tempo", Orchestre National de Jazz / Laurent Cugny (Verve 532 438-2, 1995)
• "Merci, Merci, Merci", Orchestre National de Jazz Laurent Cugny (Verve 534 945-2,1996).

VIDEOGRAPHY

• "Jazz à Paris", Gil Evans - Laurent Cugny - Big Band Lumière (Polygram Music Video 041 780-2, 1988)
• "Gerry Mulligan", coll. Jazz portraits, realisation Robert Mugnerot (production Ex Nihilo for Arte).