Jean-Paul Bourelly
His grandmother taught him Yoruba music. When he was ten years old, he sang at the Lyric Opera. He took lessons on piano and drums.
Jean-Paul Bourelly
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- Name
- Jean-Paul Bourelly
- Birth Name
- Jean-Paul Etienne Bourelly
- Born
- 23 November 1960
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Musician
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- jazz · blues · rock music
- Languages
- English
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His grandmother taught him Yoruba music. When he was ten years old, he sang at the Lyric Opera. He took lessons on piano and drums.
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Jean-Paul Bourelly (born 1960) is a composer, guitarist and musician, of American nationality. The composer was born in Chicago.
Jean-Paul Bourelly is a member of Stone Raiders. Activity centred on blues, jazz and rock music.
The work spans downtempo and jazz. Languages used include English.
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Biography
Biography
Bourelly worked across jazz musician, jazz guitarist, guitarist, composer and musician. The registers place that work in jazz and downtempo. This article rests on 39 catalogued compositions, 10 issued recordings and 2 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Jean-Paul Bourelly • Birth Name — Jean-Paul Etienne Bourelly • Born — 23 November 1960 • Birthplace — Chicago, Illinois, U.S. • Genre — * Jazz fusion • rock • avant-rock • blues • world • Occupation — * Musician • singer • composer • record producer • label owner • Instrument — Guitar • Years Active — 1980–present • Website — www.bourelly.com
As leader
As leader
• Jungle Cowboy (JMT, 1987) • Trippin (Enemy, 1992) • Saints & Sinners (DIW, 1993) • Blackadelic-Blu (DIW, 1994) • Tribute to Jimi (DIW, 1995) • Live! Fade to Cacophony (DIW, 1995) • Rock the Cathartic Spirits (DIW, 1996) • Mag Five with Harry Sokal, Lonnie Plaxico, Ronnie Burrage (PAO, 1998) • Vibe Music (PAO, 1999) • Boom Bop (PAO, 2000) • Trance Atlantic (Boom Bop II) (Double Moon, 2001) • News from a Darked Out Room (Phonector, 2006) • CutMotion (JPGotMangos, 2007) • Kiss the Sky with Daryl Taylor, Kenny Martin (JPGotMangos, 2018)
As sideman
As sideman
With Cassandra Wilson • Point of View (JMT, 1986) • Days Aweigh (JMT, 1987) • She Who Weeps (JMT, 1991) • Dance to the Drums Again (Columbia, 1992) • Songbook (JMT, 1995) With others • George Adams, Old Feeling (Blue Note, 1991) • Muhal Richard Abrams, Blues Forever (Black Saint, 1982) • Muhal Richard Abrams, Rejoicing with the Light (Black Saint, 1983) • Ayibobo, Freestyle (DIW, 1993) • Ayibobo, Stone Voudou (DIW, 2003) • Bell Biv DeVoe, Poison (MCA, 1990) • Charles & Eddie, Duophonic (Capitol, 1992) • D-Nice, To Tha Rescue (Jive, 1991) • Miles Davis, Amandla (Warner Bros., 1989) • Defunkt, A Blues Tribute Jimi Hendrix & Muddy Waters (Enemy, 1994) • Pee Wee Ellis, Blues Mission (Gramavision, 1993) • Craig Harris, Blackout in the Square Root of Soul (JMT, 1988) • Graham Haynes, Transition (Antilles, 1995) • Vincent Henry, Vincent (Jive, 1990) • Hi-Five, Keep It Goin' On (Jive, 1992) • DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Ring My Bell (Jive, 1991) • Elvin Jones & McCoy Tyner Love & Peace (Trio, 1982) • Butch Morris, Dust to Dust (New World, 1991) • Butch Morris, Possible Universe (Nu Bop, 2014) • Marvin Peterson, Visions of a New World (Atlantic, 1989) • Jeff Redd, A Quiet Storm (Uptown/MCA, 1990) • Sonya Robinson, Sonya (Columbia, 1987) • Roz, A-Yo Ah'Ite (ZYX Music, 1994) • Omar Sosa, Tales from the Earth (Ota, 2009) • Stone Raiders, Truth to Power (Yellowbird, 2012) • Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Brotherzone (P-Vine, 1999) • Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Revolutionary Royalty (Jam-All, 2014)
Life and work
Life and work
Jean-Paul Bourelly was born on 23 November 1960 in Chicago. Bourelly held the nationality of United States. Recorded child: Bibi Bourelly. Bourelly worked as jazz musician, jazz guitarist, guitarist and composer, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them musician. Bourelly was active from 1980. The fields Bourelly worked in include jazz and downtempo. Bourelly played the guitar. Bourelly worked in English.
Catalogued output
Compositions
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. 39 further compositions are catalogued under Bourelly's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it. Are You Experienced? Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland).
The entries follow MusicBrainz
Power of Soul
Brotha's on Mars
Toxic You Love
Skin I'm In
Just Keep Thinking of Eubay
Don't look back
Yeah, I Said It
Message to Love
I Will Be There
Three Chambers of Diop
Nu Breed Kultur
Primary material
Recordings and discography
The discography assembled here shows how Bourelly's work has been published in sound, not what Bourelly made. 9 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 1987 to 2007. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. The 1990s are the densest decade of publication, with 4 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.
Tribute To Jimi
1995
Live at Jazzfestival Frankfurt 1995
1995
News From a Darked Out Room
2005
Blackadelic-Blu
1994
Trippin'
1992
Boom Bop
2000
CutMotion
2007
Trance Atlantic (Boom Bop II)
Jungle Cowboy
1987
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reference work
- “Jean-Paul Bourelly”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q357411: Jean-Paul Bourelly
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Colin Larkin. The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz. Guinness Publishing. 56. 1992. 0-85112-580-8.
- 2.Prato, Greg. Jean-Paul Bourelly. AllMusic.
- 3.Yanow, Scott. The Great Jazz Guitarists. Backbeat. 2013. 978-1-61713-023-6.
- 4.Gilbert, Mark. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Grove's Dictionaries. 1. 277. 2002. 1-56159-284-6.
- 5.Augustin, Camille. Views From The Studio With… Songwriter Bibi Bourelly. Vibe. 17 April 2015.
- 6.Augustin, Camille. Views From The Studio With… Songwriter Bibi Bourelly. Vibe. 17 April 2015.
- 7.Barsky, Alice. Bibi Bourelly, the Mastermind Behind "BBHMM," Releases Her Debut Single "Ego". Paste. 28 October 2015.
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Citations
References
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q357411: Jean-Paul BourellyWikimedia Foundation
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Jean-Paul Bourelly is recorded with the occupation jazz musician. Recorded as guitarist, composer and musician.
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