English:Jacques Pirotton (Q537863)

He studied jazz guitar at the Conservatoire de Liège with Bill Frisell, Serge Lazarévitch, Steve Houben, Michel Herr.

Since 1980 he becomes a professional musician and starts to play with Jacques Pelzer. They will play during 12 years in most of the clubs and festivals in Belgium and other countries. Sometimes, they are joined by some very famous musicians as Chet Baker, Barney Wilen, Woody Shaw, Dave Liebman, Phil Woods...

He also starts to play with most of belgian musicians : Guy Cabay, Steve Houben (tour in Zaïre in 1981, Singapore 1988), Richard Rousselet, Pirly Zurstrassen, Pierre Vaïana, Félix Simtaine, Bruno Castellucci, Michel Hatzigeorgiou, Jean-Louis Rasinfosse, Philippe Aerts, Jean-Pierre Gebler (tour in Portugal), Jean-Pierre Catoul, Michel Herr, Michel Graillier, Micheline Pelzer, Serge Lazarévitch, Jon Eardley, John Thomas, Garrett List...

In 1984 Jacques Pirotton and Jacques Pelzer record the album "Happy Few" and Jacques Pirotton recieves the prize of the sabam for his composition "Scarcity".

In 1987 he creates the group "Artline" with André Charlier, Benoit Vanderstraeten, Eric Legnini. They record the LP "Labyrinthe" which will issue in CD in 1989 with Benoit Sourisse and Yves Bodson.

In the same time he makes his musician career, Jacques Pirotton starts to teach jazz guitar : first in the conservatoire of Liège (séminaire de jazz), in the académie d'Amay and since 1988, he teaches at the conservatoire from Luxembourg.