Alex Bellegarde

Alex Bellegarde is a Montreal double bassist, composer, bandleader, and jam-session host working across jazz, Latin music, and interdisciplinary projects.

Double bassComposerBandleaderJam-session host9 current shows

Photo source · Photo: Yvan Couillard, via Alex Bellegarde's official EPK

Career Overview

About Alex Bellegarde

Bellegarde's official biography places the Montreal-born bassist in the city's jazz scene from the late 1990s onward. It documents his work as a composer and leader alongside Latin ensembles, theatre, film, poetry, dance, and other multidisciplinary settings.[1]

The artist's discography moves from quartet recordings such as One Fine Saturday, Caminando, and a live set to the Alex Bellegarde Trio's Floating and the Bellegarde-Schulrabe-Plante Trio's Convo. His biography also documents more than two decades leading Montreal jam sessions.[1][5][4][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, double bassist, and composer

Alex Bellegarde Trio

Floating presents Bellegarde's trio writing with pianist Yoël Diaz and drummer Yvon Plouffe in an artist-authorized full-album stream.[5]

Leader, double bassist, and composer

Alex Bellegarde Quartet

The official catalog documents both Caminando and a live quartet recording, distinguishing the group's Latin-jazz and concert settings.[4][3]

Host and bassist

Montreal jam sessions

Bellegarde's biography describes a weekly practice developed across more than twenty years of hosting musicians at Montreal clubs.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2003

Alex Bellegarde Quartet Live

Quartet leader and double bassist

The artist-run release page streams the quartet's concert recording and supplies its personnel and repertoire.[3]

Release details

2006 · Justin Time Records

Caminando

Quartet leader, double bassist, and composer

Caminando documents Bellegarde's quartet in a program shaped by jazz improvisation and his long engagement with Cuban music.[1][4]

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2014

Floating

Trio leader, double bassist, and composer

Floating is the artist-authorized trio recording with Bellegarde, Yoël Diaz, and Yvon Plouffe.[5]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp

Hear Bellegarde's trio and quartet albums with artist-supplied personnel and recording notes.

Official YouTube channel

Watch performances and project videos selected and published through Bellegarde's artist channel.

Diese Onze · Montreal

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

[1] Official biography, projects, and discography
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[2] Official press kit and portrait credits
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[3] Quartet Live audio and personnel
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[4] Caminando audio and recording notes
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[5] Floating audio and personnel
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