René Urtreger
In a career spanning several decades, jazz pianist René Urtreger (b. 1934) has
played alongside some of the greatest names in jazz, including Kenny Clarke,
Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Lester Young and Dizzy Gillespie. An
emulator of Bud Powell, he caused a sensation with the HUM trio founded in 1960
with Daniel Humair and Pierre Michelot, then accompanied French chanson artists
before returning to jazz with the album Récidive (1978). Thereafter, between two
reunions of the trio (in 1979 and 1999), René Urtreger never stopped touring and
recording with new-generation music...
