Daniel Humair

The paths of Daniel Humair and those of cinema and television seldom crossed. You can hear him play the drums in a few films like Le cercle rouge (1970), Calmos (1976) or Beyond Therapy (1987). On the other hand, he composed the score of one movie or two, such as Une sale affaire (1981) with Marlène Jobert and Victor Lanoux and of a TV documentary (Yves Klein, la révolution bleue (2006)). In the 1970s, he also provided a jingle used by the French TV channel Antenne 2 and wrote the music introducing the game programs of Europe 1, a French radio channel. Such scarcity comes as no surprise knowing that Daniel Humair, born in Lausanne in 1938, has been carrying his activities in essentially two specific areas, jazz and painting. In the first field, Humair is unanimously regarded as one of the very best drummers in the world. Stan Getz, Dizzie Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Dexter Gordon, Lee Konitz all asked to play with him, which speaks for itself. On the other hand, not content to excel in music, Daniel Humair is also an accomplished and acclaimed artist, whose style he personally labels "narrative abstraction". Well, this gifted man cannot be everywhere at once and working for the big and the small screen has never been his priority. Still, his name honors the credits of the few filmed works to which he contributed. The contributions of a great man must not be disregarded.