People

Pierre Michelot

  • Name: Pierre Michelot
  • Birthday: 1928-03-03
  • Place of birth: Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
  • Popularity: 0.002
Biography: Pierre Michelot (3 March 1928 – 3 July 2005) was a French jazz double bass player and arranger. Michelot was born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris on 3 March 1928. He studied piano from 1936 until 1938. He switched to playing bass at the age of sixteen. He played and recorded with visiting American musicians in Paris. He "played with Rex Stewart (1948), performed at Frisco's in Paris with Kenny Clarke (summer 1949), and joined Clarke in a band accompanying Coleman Hawkins (winter 1949–50), with whom he recorded; in 1949 he also recorded with Clarke in an ad hoc band led by Sidney Bechet." Through his career he played with Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, Don Byas,... Read More

Movies:

Title Release date
The Miles Davis Story   as  Self 2001-04-14