Alain Jean-Marie
Alain Judes Jean-Marie, known professionally as Alain Jean-Marie, born October
29, 1945, in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France, is a French jazz pianist.
Jean-Marie taught himself piano from age 8 after hearing bebop on the radio.
After performing in Guadeloupe, Jean-Marie relocated to Montreal from 1967 to
1970, co-founding the fusion group Liquid Rock, before returning to the Antilles
and settling in Paris in 1973. Jean-Marie received the Prix Django-Reinhardt in
1979 and released studio albums including Piano Biguines in 1969, The Scene Is
Clean in 1991, the Biguine Reflexions...
