Jacques Coursil
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Valeurs pures
- La fonction muette du langage. essai de linguistique generale contemporaine
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1938
- Active to
- 2020-06-25
jazz
Discography
- « Black Suite »1970
- Minimal Brass2005
- Clameurs2007
- Trails of Tears2011
- Hostipitality Suite2020
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- 3,274
- Total plays
- 21,487
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Jacques Coursil was born (* 1938 in Paris; † 25. June 2020) but moved to New York in 1965. “In 1965, just around the assassination of Malcolm X, this is a natural propensity of a person of me like, having been in Africa, Senegal, West Africa, now I got to see the United States. I sold my library, I was not old at the time, I was 28 but I had a lot of books so I sold my books, paintings and I started playing almost immediately.” Coursil is nostalgic for those early days in New York, a much differ
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jacques
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 18th arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- Aachen
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trumpet
- Official website
- www.coursil.com
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1938-03-31
- name in native language
- Jacques Coursil
- date of death
- 2020-06-26
- birth name
- Jacques Georges Coursil
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