Jean Michel Jarre BiographyCelebrated
as the European electronic music community's premier
ambassador , composer Jean-Michel Jarre elevated the synthesizer to new peaks of popularity during the 1970s, in the process emerging
as an international superstar renowned for his dazzling concert spectacles. The son of the famed film composer Maurice Jarre, he was born
August 24, 1948, in Lyon, France,
and began studying piano
at the
age of five.
Abandoning classical music
as a youth, Jarre became enamored of jazz before forming
a rock band called Mystere IV; in 1968, he became
a pupil of the musique concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer, joining Groupe de Recherches Musicales. His early experiments in electro-
acoustic music yielded the 1971 single "
La Cage "; the full-length
Deserted Palace followed
a year later.
Jarre's early works were largely unsuccessful,
and gave little indication of the work to follow.
As he struggled to find his own voice, he wrote for
a variety of singers, including Françoise Hardy,
and also composed for films. Seeking to push electronic music
away from its minimalist foundations
as well
as the formal
abstractions of its most experimental practitioners, he slowly developed the orchestrated melodicism of his 1977 breakthrough effort, Oxygène,
an enormous commercial hit that reached the number two spot on the U.K. pop charts. The follow-up, 1978's
Equinoxe , was
also a smash,
and a year later Jarre held the first in
a series of massive open-
air concerts
at the Place de la Concorde in Paris, the estimated one million spectators on hand earning him
a place in The Guinness Book of World Records.
Only in the wake of 1981's Les Chants Magnétiques (
Magnetic Fields) did Jarre mount
a proper tour, traveling to China with
a staggering
amount of stage equipment in tow; the five performances, performed backed by some 35 traditional
instrumentalists , later generated the LP
Concerts in China . Released in 1983,
Music for Supermarkets instantly became one of the most collectible
albums in history - recorded for
an art exhibit, only one copy was ever pressed, selling
at a charity
auction for close to $10,000. The master was then incinerated, guaranteeing the record's rarity. Jarre's next proper release was 1984's
Zoolook , which failed to connect with
audiences with the same success
as its predecessors.
A two-year hiatus followed before he resurfaced on
April 5, 1986, with
an extravagant
live performance in Houston celebrating NASA's silver
anniversary ; in
addition to the over one million in
attendance , it was
also broadcast on global television.
Rendez-Vous appeared a few weeks later,
and after another highly visual
live date in Lyon, France, Jarre
assembled the best material from the two events
as the 1987 concert LP Cities in Concert: Houston/Lyon.
Revolutions , featuring the legendary Shadows guitarist Hank B. Marvin, followed in 1988,
and a year later
a third concert LP, dubbed simply Jarre
Live , hit stores.
After 1990's
En Attendant Cousteau (
Waiting for Cousteau ), Jarre mounted his biggest
live experience yet, with
an attendance of over two
and a half million fans converging on Paris to see him perform in honor of Bastille Day.
The decade to follow proved surprisingly quiet, however,
and apart from the occasional
live appearance Jarre was largely removed from the limelight; finally, in 1997 he issued Oxygène 7-13, updating his concepts for
a new musical era.
At the turn of the millennium, he recorded
Metamorphoses and then took
a break from the studio
as a flurry of reissues
and remixes followed, including
Sessions 2000,
Les Granges Brulees ,
and Odyssey Through O2 . In 2007,
after a seven-year hiatus from recording, Jarre released
a new dance single, "Teo
and Tea",
a surprisingly strong return to electro,
and followed it with
a trancey,
angular album also titled Teo
and Tea.
Biography by allmusic.com
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Teo and Tea 2007
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Dutch Radio 4 Cd1 2006
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Dutch Radio 4 Cd2 2006
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Dutch Radio 4 Cd3 2006
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Les Concerts en Chine 2006
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Printemps De Bourges 2002 2006
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Essential Jean-Michel Jarre 2005
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Live At Linx 10-10-05 2005
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Live From Gdansk 2005
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Aero 2004
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China Forbidden City Concert 2004
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Concert In Beijing China 10-10-2004 Cd1 2004
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Concert In Beijing China 10-10-2004 Cd2 2004
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Essential Remastered 2004
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Souvenirs From France (1976-1986) Cd1 2004
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Souvenirs From France (1986-2004) Cd2 2004
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Souvenirs Live Bootleg Versions Cd1 2004
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Souvenirs Live Bootleg Versions Cd2 2004
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The Essential 2004
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Arpegiateur Promo 2003
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Back To The Basics 2003
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Back To The Basics 2003
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Back To The Basics 2003
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Geometry Of Love 2003
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Geometry of Love (bonus Sessions 2000) 2003
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Sessions 2000 2003
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Tour Du Monde 2003
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Aero 1 2002
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Aero 2 2002
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Aero Concert Danish Tv2 2002
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Jarre Forever Cd2 2002
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Live Aero Denmark 2002-09-07 2002
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Live At The Acropolis 2002
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Live Concert Aero Cd1 2002
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Live Concert Aero Cd2 2002
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Printemps De Bourges 2002
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Sessions 2002 2002
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Interior Music 2001
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New Medium Softpack 2001
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Dream Of The 12 Suns - Cd 1 2000
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Dream Of The 12 Suns - Cd 2 2000
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Hit Collection 2000
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Metamorphoses 2000
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Metamorphoses Showcase 2000
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Rendez-Vous Egypt 2000
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Rendez-Vous In Space 2000
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Session 2000
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Tout Est Bleu 2000
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Twelve Dreams Of The Sun Egypt Concert 2000
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Age Of Silence 1999
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Les Douze Reves Du Soleil 1999
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Marshmallow Rooms 1999
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Apple Imac Night 1998
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Odyssey Through O2 1998
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Paris Live Electronic Night 1998
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The Singles Collection '98 1998
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Cities in Concert: Houston-Lyon 1997
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Hong Kong Cd1 1997
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Hong Kong Cd2 1997
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Images (Best Of) 1997
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Oxygene 7-13 1997
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Oxygene 8 Single 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Birmingham Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Birmingham Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Budapest 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Glasgow 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Gothenburg Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Gothenburg Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Hamburg Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Hamburg Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Katowice 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Lille 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 London Wembley Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 London Wembley Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Manchester Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Manchester Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Moscow Remastered 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Munich Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Munich Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Oberhausen Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Oberhausen Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Oslo Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Oslo Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Rotterdam Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Rotterdam Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Stockholm Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Stockholm Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Stuttgart Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Stuttgart Cd2 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Toulon 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Zenith Cd1 1997
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Oxygene Tour 97 Zenith Cd2 1997
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Concert For Tolerance Cd1 1995
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Concert For Tolerance Cd2 1995
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Concert Pour La Tolerance 1995
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Concerts - Concert Pour La Tolerance 1995
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Hong Kong 1995
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Images: The Best of Jean Michel Jarre 1995
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Jarremix 1995
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Les Chants Magnetiques 1994
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Oxygene Trance Remix 1994
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Rarities 1 1994
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Rarities 2 1994
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Rarities 3 1994
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Chronologie 1993
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Chronologie 1993
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E.I.C. Live At Barcellona 1993
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E.I.C. Live At Lausanne 1993
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E.I.C. Live At Manchester 1993
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E.I.C. Live At Montauban 1993
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E.I.C. Live At Versailles 1993
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Europe In Concert Barselona Cd1 1993
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Europe In Concert Barselona Cd2 1993
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Villacoublay Rehearsals 1993
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Lost City Concert 1992
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Swatch Concert In Zematt 1992
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The Legends Of The Lost City 1992
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Images: The Best Of 1991
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Zoolook 1991
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Concerts - La Defense 1990
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En Attendant Cousteau 1990
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Waiting For Costeau 1990
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Waiting For Cousteau 1990
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Destination Docklands 1989
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Exclusive Discography part III 1989
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Jarre Live 1989
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Live 1989
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Revolutions 1988
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Houston - Lyon Concert 1987
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In Concert Houston-Lyon 1987
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Jean Michel Jarre in Concert: Houston-Lyon 1987
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Rendez-Vous 1986
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Rendez-Vous Houston Cd1 1986
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Rendez-Vous Houston Cd2 1986
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Rendez-vous Lyon 1986
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Zoolookologie Cdm 1985
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Zoolock 1984
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Zoolook Cdm 1984
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Music For Supermarkets 1983
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Musik Aus Zeit Und Raum 1983
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