Pierre Chrétien: Vintage Keys and an Unexpected Career Path

Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman

Pierre Chrétien is a Canadian bandleader, multi-instrumentalist and composer who has had international success with his bands The Souljazz Orchestra, Atlantis Jazz Ensemble and his project Cinephonic, and in this episode you’ll learn about all of these and hear highlights from some of these albums on the Marlow Records label. http://www.marlowrecords.com/artists.html

Pierre shares how left his career as an Engineer to devote himself to a full-time career as a performer. He also demonstrates some rare vintage instruments at the beginning of this episode, which he’s also an expert at repairing. Pierre is so creative and some of his gorgeous album covers are linked to the episode notes on my website, which of course links to Marlow Records. Like all my episodes, you can watch this on my YouTube channel or listen to the podcast on all the podcast platforms, and I’ve also linked the transcript to my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/pierre-chrtien

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Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(02:14) marimba

(05:33) Vintage Vibe electric piano, Mellotron

(10:01) Cinephonic albums

(13:05) Le Combat from Visions, the second Cinephonic album

(17:01) film score influences

(18:09) Musser Ampli-Celeste

(19:52) Atlantis Jazz Ensemble, vintage keyboards

(21:45) Pierre childhood and youth, Engineering degree

(25:07) Souljazz orchestra, tours, graphic design

(29:09) Kingdom Come from album Inner Fire Souljazz orchestra

(33:20) harp

(34:14) please buy me a coffee to support this series?

(34:52) Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

(37:46) Joyful Noise from Celetial Suite Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

(42:48) Mike Essoudry drummer

(43:06) Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

(47:10) Blue Nile Atlantis Jazz Ensemble

(52:15) Marlow Records, recording to analog tape

(53:43) writing process, musical influences

(55:47) changes in music distribution, benefits of Bandcamp, problems withSpotify

(58:19) decision to leave Engineering and become full-time musician

(01:00:57) other projects, Tezeta for orchestra

(01:04:26) Pierre’s teen years