Grégory Privat will current a live performance from his “Phoenix Tour” on his dwelling turf. The pianist will carry out on the Grand Carbet within the Aimé Césaire Cultural Park [Parc Culturel Aimé Césaire] in Fort-de-France, Martinique on Thursday, Could 30, 2024, at 8:00pm.
Privat, Jazz Academy winner of the Django Reinhardt Prize, will probably be accompanied by Tilo Bertholo on drums and Chris Jennings on double bass.
Grégory Privat, a Caribbean Jazz pianist, was born in Martinique, in 1984. He’s the son of pianist José Privat, identified for his participation within the internationally acknowledged Caribbean group, Malavoi. Attracted by the piano at a really younger age, he took non-public classes from the age of six and devoted himself for 10 years to a classical apprenticeship earlier than turning to improvisation methods and jazz.
Pupil in engineering faculty in Toulouse, he escapes at night time to play in some jazz golf equipment within the metropolis. It was later in Paris that Grégory Privat, with an engineering diploma in his pocket, continued to fulfill his ardour for the stage. Throughout this era, within the early 2000s, the pianist crosses the trail of different musicians similar to Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Stephane Belmondo, Guillaume Perret, or Sonny Troupé.
Prepared to discover a place within the jazz world, Gregory Privat participates within the piano competitors of the Montreux Jazz Pageant in 2008 and the Martial Solal Competitors in 2010, throughout which he reaches the place of semi-finalist. The next yr noticed the discharge of the primary album in his identify, Ki Koté. The success of esteem acquired by this primary essay of non-public compositions encourages the pianist to proceed on this method.
In September 2013, he launched the album Tales of Cyparis, impressed by the story of Louis-Auguste Cyparis, the one prisoner who survived the Mountain Pelée eruption in 1902 and was employed by the Barnum Circus. The venture, nicely acquired by the critics, locations Grégory Privat among the many most outstanding musicians of the brand new jazz scene. A standing confirmed by the discharge in January 2015 of his third album Duo Luminescence with Sonny Troupé, trustworthy associate and nice grasp of Gwoka music. The album is called on the 2015 Victoires du Jazz within the class « revelation of the yr, Frank-Ténot prize.”
In 2015, Grégory turns into the brand new piano participant within the Liberetto quartet of Swedish bass participant Lars Danielsson, who encourages him to signal with the label ACT: the album Household Tree of his first trio (Tilo Bertholo, drums and Linley Marthe, bass) is launched on the celebrated label in October 2016.
Three years later, in quest of freedom and inventive independence, Grégory creates his personal label Buddham Jazz, produces and data the album Soley in 2020 with Chris Jennings on bass and Tilo Bertholo on drums.
In 2022, Gregory Privat will launch his first solo album, Yonn.
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