Michel Portal

Born: November 25, 1935 (90 years)

Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Portal was born in Bayonne on 27 November 1935. His family was musical and there were several instruments in his house when he was growing up. His interest in jazz began after hearing it on the radio after World War II. He studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris and conducting with Pierre Dervaux. Portal "gained experience in light music with the bandleaders Henri Rossotti and (in Spain in 1958) Perez Prado, as well as with the drummer Benny Bennett (1960), Raymond Fonsèque (1963), Aimé Barelli, and, for many years, the singer Claude Nougaro". Portal co-founded the free improvisation group New Phonic Art. During 1969, Portal played on a recording of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Aus den sieben Tagen. Portal began scoring music for films in the 1980s. He has won the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film three times. Source: Article "Michel Portal" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Movies as Actor (4)

Michel Portal @ Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2021

Movies as Crew (49)

Michel Portal

Michel Portal @ Nancy Jazz Pulsations 2021

Le Concerto de Mozart

Paris Blues

A few notes on freedom

Champs-Elysées

Le Grand Échiquier

Le Professeur

Cigarettes et bas nylons

Lies

The Girl from the Chartreuse

Le porteur de cartable

Un fils de notre temps

Jacques Lacan, la psychanalyse réinventée

Passionnément

The Comedian

Buud Yam

The Colors of the Devil

1914 the Glorious Summer

Doctor Semmelweis

The Machine

Eugénie Grandet

The Return of Casanova

Au Sud du Sud

Alcyon

Dr. Petiot

Ke arteko egunak

Adventure of Catherine C.

Angels

Children of Chaos

À corps et à cris

A Tale of the Wind

The Mortal Fortune

No Harm Intended

Sorceress

Yeelen

Milan noir

Max My Love

Fou comme l'oiseau

Paradise for All

The Return of Martin Guerre

Short Memory

Café Plongeoir

Droit de Réponse

The Red Shade

Le Beau Monde

See Here My Love

The Dogs

Adoption

Surreal Estate

La Cecilia

Tahia Ya Didou !

The Bamboo Incident

Les Trois Cousins

A Question of Rape

Icelandic Fisherman