Michel Donato - Blue on the spot

Author: Stanley Péan

“A good jazz musician is someone who can do almost anything. They're not supposed to impose boundaries on themselves. Basically, we're used to a certain controlled freedom. But I think we have to have a broad back. It has to be beautiful music, but we shouldn't have any limits.” Michel Donato. Born in Montreal on August 25, 1942, double bassist and composer Michel Donato has collaborated on stage and on record with the most renowned jazz artists, including pianists Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Lorraine Desmarais, trumpeters Chet Baker and Guido Basso, and harmonica player Toots Thielemans. He has also performed alongside legendary singers, from Félix Leclerc to Charles Aznavour, including Claude Gauthier, Ginette Reno, Bruce Cockburn, and Edith Butler. Writer and music lover, host of jazz programs on Radio-Canada, Stanley Péan devoted five years to this portrait of his friend Michel Donato. Michel Donato: bleu sur le vif required a considerable amount of documentary research and interviews with key figures from successive periods of Donato's life. Today, both the double bassist and his biographer are proud to offer you this retrospective of a phenomenal career that spans six decades of the history of jazz and popular and classical music in Quebec, Canada, and worldwide.

ISBN: 978-2925197416