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.
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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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