Alain Bédard has had an interesting professional career as a musician and composer since the 1980s. His participation in various major events has taken him all over the world, providing him with fascinating experience. He has played with Quebec groups Ogane Song, Jazzlab Orchestra, musicians Yves Léveillé, Félix Stüssi, Pierre Tanguay, Rafael Zaldivar, John Roney, Frank Lozano, Michel Côté, François Bourassa, Rémi Bolduc, Joe Sullivan, André Leroux, Carole Therrien and many international artists including ; François Théberge, Pierre de Bethmann, Donny McCaslin, Stéphane Belmondo, Julien Loureau, Ted Nash, Pascal Shumacher, Thoine Thys, Fulvio Albano, Jocelyn Ménard, Xavier Richardeau, etc.
L'AUGUSTE QUARTET
For the past 2 decades, Alain Bédard has been pursuing a very active career with L'AUGUSTE quartet, which he has taken to every continent. Playing only his original music, the group has performed in dozens of countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, the USA, Italy, Hungary, Ireland, the UK, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia, Poland, Russia, Holland, Germany, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, France and, above all, Canada (all the major cities and almost all the jazz festivals), giving hundreds of concerts.
He has released 6 albums, including the eponymous "Auguste", "Sphère Réflexion", "Bluesy Lunedi", "Homos Pugnax", "Circum Continum" and "Exalta Calma" Hit Couleurs jazz (Fr).
The Auguste quartet is an exciting piece of modern jazz played in a very personal way. It is a story that speaks. The musicians play with time and with great spirit. The production has as much potential in individual playing as in teamwork. - Mihaly Czekus, Budapest
Auguste Quartet is complexity and limpidity, inner exaltation that participates in the apparent calm, difficulty of interpretation versus ease of communication, for an intellectual music full of feeling and emotion. For it is in the motivation that the resolution of the ordeal is found, in the love of music well made, well understood, in and through the love of and for the other, of all the others, that the difficulties, the contradictions and the tensions are cancelled out, to be transformed into the beauty we so much need.
The AUGUSTE QUARTET is currently preparing the music for a new album in the form of "Sonorous Particles", unquantifiable in time and space, with Mario Allard: alto and soprano saxophone; Marie-Fatima Rudolf: piano, compositions; Alain Bédard: double bass, compositions; Michel Lambert: drums, compositions.
L'AUGUSTE QUARTET is supported for touring and concerts by Effendi Records, Musicaction, Sodec and sporadically by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.
