Serge Forte

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Serge Forté, Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, born 1st May 1960 in Tunis.

At 18 years old, studying musicology in Lyon, he discovers Jazz and listen to all masters with avidity. He teached classical piano to pay his studies, playing with local groups also.

Professor at CIM, Paris, from 1988 to 1990, Serge Forté recorded VAÏNA latin jazz compositions, with in bonus a duo with Michel Petrucciani, followed by many concerts as 1st parts of Miles Davis in Poitiers, Stan Getz and Michel Petrucciani at Festival Heineken, etc.…


In 1992, Serge recorded the future LA VIE EN BLEU, on French Songs , and then MOSAÏQUE in 1994.

Working on the play of Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Phineas Newborn, Lennie Tristano, taking some distance from his first latin mood and going deeper in his technique and harmonic play.

In 2003 comes the album, JAZZ’IN CHOPIN.Chopin’s melodies are treated here like Jazz Standards. The result perfectly illustrate the lack of border between Classical and Jazz.

THANKS FOR ALL, with percussionist Mino Cinelu, recorded in New York in 1997, is a vibrant tribute to all the musicians who influenced him. THe cd has been released in january 2004 and is nominated by the Fnac for the Victoires du Jazz 2005.

Serge Forté is also very proud to be present with his trio on the only french recording from the great Sheila Jordan, BELIEVE IN JAZZ whose title summarizes perfectly the history of one of the greatest Jazz singers in activity.

The album La BOHEME presents a very personal vision of the inheritance of French Song, in the line of LA VIE EN BLEU, but with 3 sung titles, and the exceptional participation of Alain Chamfort.

His students enjoy today his great talent of pedagog and his help to prepare competition or concerts.


Discography

:
Oscar...a tribute - 2008 recorded live in Paris, with Jean Wellers on bass and Charley Obin on percussions.Not yet released, coming soon!!!
La bohème - 2007
recorded July 2006
with Marc-Michel Le Bévillon, and Karl Jannuska
for two titles from Edith Piaf, Raphaële Atlan
for Elisa, special guest Alain Chamfort



Believe in Jazz - 2004
with Sheila Jordan
recorded live, november 2003
at la Ferme-Asile, Sion, Suisse
with Karl Jannuska, and Gary Brunton



Thanks for All - 2004
recorded in New-York
October 1997
with Jean Wellers, Mino Cinelu, Darren Beckett,
and an unrelaesed take in duo with Michel Petrucciani



Jazz’in Chopin - 2003
recorded live in january 2003
in Bludenz, Autriche
with Peter Herbert (cb) and Karl Jannuska (dr)



La Vie en Bleu - 2001
recorded in 1990,
first release from label Ella Productions
French Songs
with Laurent Robin and Claude Mouton



Mosaïque - 1994
out of stock,
compositions Serge Forté
latin jazz
produced by FR3



Vaïna - 1992
out of stock, to be reissued in 2007 !!
compositions Serge Forté mainly,
including duo with Michel Petrucciani on "O Nana Oyé".

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