Didier Lockwood is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

ist. He played in the progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

/jazz fusion

Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

 band Magma

Magma (band)

Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. In the course of their first album, the band tells the story of a...

 in the 1970s and is known for his use of electric amplification and experimentation on different sounds on the electric violin.

In 1979, he released his first album as a leader, New World, and has recorded more than 20 albums of his own since then.

Lockwood's influences include fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty is a French virtuoso violinist and jazz composer.- Early years:Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians on 29 September 1942 in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano...

. He took up the electric violin after hearing Ponty play on the album King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa

King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa

King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty first released in 1970 on Liberty Records' World Pacific Records subsidiary label...

. Another important influence was fellow Frenchman Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands....

. In 2000, Lockwood recorded a tribute album to Grappelli.

Collaborations

with Magma

Magma (band)

Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. In the course of their first album, the band tells the story of a...

• Theatre Du Taur Concert, 1975
  Theatre Du Taur Concert, 1975
  Theatre Du Taur Concert, 1975 is an official bootleg live album by French progressive rock group Magma. It was recorded in Toulouse on September 24, 1975, but it was not released until 1994....
  
  
• Live/Hhaï
  Live/Hhaï
  Live/Hhaï is the first live album and fifth album in total by French Progressive rock group Magma. It was first released in 1975, and has been re-released many times: in 1978 on Tomato Records; In 1989 on Seventh; In 1996 on Charly; In 2001 on Victor; and again in 2001 on Charly...
  
  (1975)
• Concert 1976 Opéra de Reims (Akt IX, released 1996)
• Inédits
  Inédits
  Inédits is an album by French progressive rock group Magma. It was released in 1977 . The quality of this recording has been criticised by many fans of the band...
  
  (1977)
• Retrospektiw (Parts I+II)
  Retrospektiw (Parts I+II)
  Retrospektiw is a live album by French Progressive rock group Magma. It was released in 1981. . It documents live recordings from a series of Magma reunion shows in Paris, June 9, 10 & 11, 1980...
  
  (1981, rec. 1980)
• Retrospektiw (Part III)
  Retrospektiw (Part III)
  Retrospektiw is a live album by French Progressive rock group Magma. It was released in 1981. . It was preceded by Retrospektiw , released in the same year...
  
  (1981, rec. 1980)

with Pierre Moerlen's Gong

Pierre Moerlen's Gong

Pierre Moerlen's Gong is a jazz fusion outfit which is very different from the first incarnation of Gong, the psychedelic space-rock act led by Daevid Allen...

• Downwind
  Downwind (album)
  Downwind is an album by Pierre Moerlen's Gong, issued in February, 1979 .Like the other Pierre Moerlen's Gong albums, Downwind is predominantly jazz fusion and has little to do with the psychedelic space rock of Daevid Allen's Gong, even though the bands share a common history...
  
  (1979, rec. 1978)

with ZAO

Zao (French band)

Zao was a progressive rock/zeuhl band that was founded by Yochk'o Seffer and François Cahen . They were active from 1971 to 1994 and released 6 studio albums. Both Seffer and Cahen were ex-members of Magma...

• Kawana (1976)
• Live! (1976)

External links

• Official website