“I don’t think there is a single musician in Eure-et-Loir who doesn’t owe anything to Daniel Ossig. “
Ivan Chavez, jazz guitarist and musical companion, for seventeen years, of saxophonist Daniel Ossig (1938-2020), is one of the first to have learned of the death of the 82-year-old instrumentalist, Monday June 8 2020, at his chartrain home, it seems a heart attack.
“Apparently, he left peacefully, listening to a jazz disc”, confides with emotion, this Tuesday June 9, Ivan Chavez: “We met seventeen years ago, when I arrived in Eure-et- To sleep. It was love at first sight. Since then, I have remained his guitarist and I still am today, I believe. “
“Generous, extremely empathetic”
For the Chartrains, Daniel Ossig, it was a pair of gray eyes with disturbing intensity, platinum hair and a borsalino in light tones, roaming the streets of Chartres as once the jazz scenes of the whole world, from Finland to the ‘Africa.
For his peers in the great jazz family, he was the guide, the pygmalion, a crucible from which to draw the ambrosia of jazz, at the center of all influences. “He locally supported a whole generation of musicians,” says Ivan Chavez, with whom he was in daily contact.
“In Chartres, he united the jazz family. His departure will create a big lack. “
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“Generous, of extreme empathy”, the saxophonist Chartrain, fan of bop and Stan Getz, had received the medal of the City of Chartres, in 2015, one of the only distinctions which rewarded a musician in weightlessness, “a stratum above ”, as hermetic to the quarrels of ego which sometimes gangrene the artistic medium.
A CD released in 2006
“There are so many who are better than me”, was astonished by the virtuoso of the copper tube, in our columns, when the Adiam d’Eure-et-Loir offered to burn his only CD, in 2006.
A precious but isolated testimony which only imperfectly restores the technical background and the musical bohemian life of a “snowman”, who has drawn his furrow far from the turntables and studios, in the soil of jazz and in the heart that all those that his sax made vibrate and inspired.
Sébastien Couratin
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