En tournée avec 2 formations:
- Piano solo
- Trio : nouvel album début 2024
Grégory Privat a reçu le 27 mars 2023 le prix "Artiste à suivre" de l'ADAMI.
Piano Solo
Nouvel album le 28 Janvier 2022 chez Buddham Jazz
En écoute ICI
Après 5 albums à son nom, Grégory Privat présente son prochain album intitulé «Yonn», qui signifie le chiffre «Un» en créole. En effet, c’est la première fois que le pianiste Martiniquais proposera un disque «piano solo».
Pour cet enregistrement de 11 titres enregistrés intégralement à Cologne, Grégory Privat propose une musique intimiste qui prend ses sources dans la culture Antillaise, la musique classique et le Jazz.Un voyage contemplatif qui mêlera les notes du piano à la voix du musicien car 5 morceaux sont chantés dans le répertoire.
Constitué entièrement de compositions originales, cet album imaginé et créé pendant la période du confinement de 2020 sera sous le thème de la méditation et du retour à soi, comme une confidence pleine de lumière, de réconfort et d’espoir
Trio
Nouvel album à venir pour début 2024
Album Soley, janvier 2020
3 ans après le remarqué Family Tree, Grégory Privat présente Soley son premier opus sur le label Buddham Jazz.
Pour cet album qu‘ il a voulu sans barrières, le pianiste et compositeur signe 15 titres arrangés en trio qui puisent dans la richesse musicale du jazz, des musiques caribéennes, de l’électronique et du chant.
Grégory Privat : Steinway modèle D, nord stage 2, chant, compositions
Chris Jennings : contrebasse
Tilo Bertholo : batterie, spd
Album disponible ici
Né en Martinique en décembre 1984, Grégory Privat est le fils du pianiste José Privat, connu pour sa participation au groupe antillais internationalement reconnu, Malavoi. Attiré très jeune par le piano, il suit des cours particuliers dès l’âge de six ans et se consacre pendant 10 ans à un apprentissage classique avant de se tourner vers les techniques d’improvisation et le jazz.
Étudiant en école d’ingénieur à Toulouse, il s’échappe le soir pour jouer en petite formation dans les clubs de la ville. C’est plus tard à Paris que Grégory Privat, diplôme d’ingénieur en poche, continue d’assouvir sa passion pour la scène. Durant cette période, au début des années 2000, le pianiste croise le chemin d’autres musiciens tels Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Stéphane Belmondo, Guillaume Perret ou Sonny Troupé.
Désireux de se faire une place dans le milieu du jazz, Grégory Privat participe au concours de piano du Festival de jazz de Montreux en 2008 et au Concours Martial Solal en 2010, au cours desquels il atteint la place de demi-finaliste.
L’année suivante voit la parution du premier album en son nom, Ki Koté. Le succès d’estime reçu par ce premier essai de compositions personnelles encourage le pianiste à poursuivre dans cette voie.
En septembre 2013, il propose l’album Tales of Cyparis, inspiré de l’histoire de Louis-Auguste Cyparis, unique prisonnier survivant de l’éruption de la Montagne Pelée en 1902, engagé à ce titre par le cirque Barnum. Le projet fort bien accueilli par la critique place Grégory Privat parmi les musiciens les plus en vue de la nouvelle scène jazz. Un statut conforté par la sortie en janvier 2015 de son troisième album Luminescence en duo avec Sonny Troupé, fidèle partenaire et grand maître de la musique Gwoka. L’album est nommé aux Victoires du Jazz 2015 dans la catégorie « révélation de l'année, prix Frank- Ténot ».
En 2015, Grégory participe au quartet Liberetto du contrebassiste Lars Danielsson qui l’encourage à signer avec le label ACT : l’album Family Tree de son premier trio (Tilo Bertholo, batterie et Linley Marthe, contrebasse) sort sur le prestigieux label en octobre 2016.
Trois ans plus tard, en quête de liberté et d’indépendance artistique, Grégory crée son propre label Buddham Jazz, produit et enregistre son nouvel album Soley avec Chris Jennings à la contrebasse et Tilo Bertholo à la batterie. L'album est sorti le 31 janvier 2020.
En janvier 2022, il sort son premier album solo.
Yonn
28 janvier 2022 - Buddham Jazz
Soley
Janvier 2020 - Buddham Jazz
Family Tree
Octobre 2016 - ACT
Luminescence
Grégory Privat & Sonny Troupé
Janvier 2015 - Jazz Family
Tales Of Cyparis
Aout 2013 - Plus Loin Music
Ki Koté
Février 2011 - Gaya Music Production
Collaborations
Lars Danielsson - Liberetto III - ACT - 2017
Manu Le Prince - In a Latin Mood - Plaza Mayor Company Ltd - 2017
Sonny Troupé - Reflets Denses - SOCADISC - 2017
Yosuke Onuma - Jam Ka Deux - Flyway Label - 2016
Dominique Di Piazza - Living Hope - La Note Bleue Productions - 2016
Elvin Bironien - A Quest - Jazz Family - 2016
Nicolas Viccaro - Intensions - La Note Bleue Productions - 2015
Christophe Zoogonès - Kind Of Zoo - Gaya Music Production - 2015
Renaud Gensane - Hapalemur - 2014
Jacques Schwarz-Bart - Jazz Racine Haiti - Motéma Music LLC - 2014
Franck Nicolas - Jazz Bèlè Philosophy 8 - 2013
Sonny Troupé - Voyages et Rêves - Musicast - 2013
Franck Nicolas - Jazz Ka Philosophy 7 - 2013
Jocelyn Ménard - Terre Mère - Swing Art - 2012
Télécharger la presse "Yonn"
On s’envole avec lui dès les premières notes. FIP
On a goûté avec délice à Yonn Le Monde
Un bijou Choc Jazz Magazine
Un dévoilement sensible, assumé et touchant La Terrasse
Un disque tendre, pop, et vraiment gonflé ! Jazz News
Yonn est vraiment unique La Gazette bleue
Télécharger la presse des albums précédents
Le jeune pianiste, compositeur et chanteur signe un 5ème album dont l'ambition n'a d'égal que la qualité.
Choc Jazz Magazine
Un disque plein d'emballements et de saillies d'énergie (...) Plus les titres passent, plus l'enthousiasme se renforce.
Télérama
Anouar Brahem : oud
Klaus Gesing : bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
Björn Meyer : bass
Khaled Yassine : darbouka, bendir
For almost forty years and with a current discography spanning no less than 11 albums on the ECM label, Anouar Brahem has been constantly placing the age-old tradition of Arab music, whose emblem is his oud and its superb finesse, in different situations; not only does he set it in contrast against the free spirit and improvisation so typical of modern jazz, but also against the sophisticated harmonies of the erudite compositional tradition of the West and the refined forms of composition in other ancient cultural traditions from the Orient.
He has organized numerous cross-cultural encounters as well as juxtaposing different musical universes, thereby producing unsuspected potential in new but familiarsounding combinations, something which had never been done before. In 2009, he recorded "The Astounding Eyes of Rita", with a new group that included the soft melding of two sounds: the amazing fluidity of German-born Klaus Gesing on bass clarinet and the flowing notes on the bass guitar of Swedish-born Björn Meyer, to give a mixture of ascetic sophistication and sensuous lyricism so typical of oriental music, declined here by the music of the oud with its notes closely interwoven into the percussive background, played by Lebanese artist, Khaled Yassine. This group has had worldwide
success, both for its rich repertoire and the subtlety of the varied instrumentation, and now, ten years later, it is not only totally up-to-the-minute and more enduring and creative than ever, but Anouar Brahem had made a secret pact with himself never to look back and also vowed to renew his inspiration constantly by accompanying each new project with unusual orchestral combinations. So here, recognizing the lasting qualities of this group, he decided to add a new chapter to this story.
His main resource has been these years of shared experiences with the group, where their coherence and self-confidence has been increasing all the time. Anouar Brahem's new adventure puts his own terrain through the prism of this particular sound universe once again, daring to cast a backward glance at his whole career by mixing a few familiar compositions of the quartet with a scattering of older themes from other projects. This leads to further exploration of the orchestral possibilities of a decidedly unusual instrumentation whose origins lie in an extremely up-to-date kind of cross-cultural chamber music. Within this hugely expansive space, Anouar Brahem and his fellowmusicians
create a softly refined, graceful and dream-like world, borrowed as much
from the contemplative oriental tradition as from jazz. The resulting music, rigorously demanding and poetic, moves constantly between modesty and sensuality, nostalgia and contemplation: it is a magnificently intimate spiritual journey to the heart of sound.
Album September 2009, ECM
2019 marks the tenth anniversary of the album. And the interest of the audience is still there, as if it was the first year.
With :
Anouar Brahem: oud
Klaus Gesing: bass clarinet
Björn Meyer: bass
Khaled Yassine: darbouka, bendir
A delightful new assembled by Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem.
The combination of the bass clarinet with the oud suggests a link to Anouar's Thimar trio, but this East/West line-up often feels closer to the more traditionally-inclined sounds of Barzakh or Conte de l'Incroyable Amour. Klaus Gesing, from Norma Winstone's Trio, and Björn Meyer, from Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, are both players with an affinity for musical sources beyond jazz, and they interact persuasively inside Brahem's music.
A dance of dark, warm sounds, urged onward by the darbouka and frame drum of Lebanese percussionist Khaled Yassine. The album is dedicated to the memory of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Music for oud
Album January 2015, ECM
This project is performed in 2 formations:
- the quartet
with Anouar Brahem (oud), François Couturier (piano), Klaus Gesing (bass clarinet ), Björn Meyer (bass)
- the quartet plus a string orchestra of 20 musicians
Probably Anouar Brahem has never gone so far into the balance between formal elegance and freedom of expression, lyricism and restraint, sensuality and asceticism, as he does here with this new repertoire which seems to ideally synthesize almost fifteen years of his personal and aesthetic quest for an authentic "common understanding" between Orient and Occident. Leading a brand-new Quartet, Brahem here revisits every facet of a musical universe that is at once melancholy and introspective in integrating his sensibilities and instrumental language—undeniably anchored in the Arab tradition—with the Impressionist, evanescent piano of colourist François Couturier, the pulsing sensuality of Björn Meyer's electric bass, and the misty, dreamlike, Nordic romanticism from the bass clarinet of Klaus Gesing.
As if to further emphasize the hybrid nature of his universe, here Brahem plunges his quartet for the first time into the sound-fabric of arrangements that are both sumptuous and minimalist, orchestrating a string-ensemble where the soloists (beginning with the melodic enchantments of the oud) are presented in an organic, voluptuous setting which is particularly stimulating. With ever more refinement in its melodic lines and at once contemplative and subtly narrative in its developments, the music contained in Souvenance possesses those qualities of self-evidence, naturalness and simplicity which are the hallmarks of works of genuine inspiration.
Other show already toured :
Blue Maqam
Album October 2017, ECM
Dave Holland: doublebass
Jack DeJohnette: drums
Django Bates: piano
Prestigious European tours in April 2018 and March 2019 :
Uppsala, Konsert & Kongress (Sweden) | Berlin, Boulez Saal (Germany) | London, Barbican (England) | Dublin, The National Concert Hall (Ireland) | Lyon, Auditorium (France) | Anvers, De Roma (Belgium) | Luxembourg, Philharmonic (Luxembourg) | Morges, Théâtre de Beausobre (Switzerland) | Köln, Kölner Philharmonic (Germany) | Paris, Paris Philharmonic (France) | Blagnac, Odyssud (France) | Zurich, Tonhalle (Germany) | Basel, Musical Theater (Switzerland) | Munich, Philharmoni (Germany) | Hamburg, Elbphilharmonic (Germany) | Lisbon, Gulbenkian Música (Portugal) | Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Belgium)
For almost forty years, Anouar Brahem, Tunisian composer and oud master, has been creating music both rooted in a highly sophisticated but ancestral culture and eminently contemporary in its global ambition. Anouar appears in many cross-cultural encounters, as well as developing entirely new links and similarities between styles and worlds whose potential closeness had never been considered until he discovered them. For him it was (and still is) a matter of highlighting the age-old Arab tradition of learned music, represented in its finesse by his oud, not only by confronting his instrument with modern jazz, but also with the sophisticated harmonies of the erudite compositional tradition of the West and refined forms from other ancient cultural traditions from the Orient.
His 11 albums on ECM, label acclaimed by the public and international critics alike (including Astrakan Café, Thimar, Le Pas du Chat Noir, Blue Maqams etc.), together with the triumphant success of his haunting music in concerts held in prestigious halls throughout the world, and his fellow-musicians including a remarkable selection of famous jazzmen such as Jan Gabarek, Dave Holland and jack DeJohnette are sufficient evidence to confirm Anouar's place as one of the most fascinating and inspirational artists in the current world of instrumental music.
His sensitive yet rigorous music constantly redefines a cleverly composite universe of poetry and culture, ever balancing between discretion and sensuality, nostalgia and contemplation.
Awards
De Klara's Classical Music Awards: "Best International CD - World" for Blue Maqams (Belgium, 2018)
Echo Jazz Award: "Best International Musician of the Year" for The Astounding Eyes of Rita (Germany, 2010)
Edison Award for Le Voyage de Sahar (The Netherlands, 2006)
Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics' Award) for Thimar (Germany, 1998)
National Music Award (Tunisia, 1985)
The album is at once an extension and an audacious departure from the tradition of the oud. Despite his formidable knowledge of the maqarnat, an ornate system of modes that anchors Arabic music, he seldom bases his improvisations directly on the maqams. His phrasing is pure and uncluttered, expressing itself through silence nearly as often as sound. ... Composed of elegantly flowing lines and somber, breathlike silences, the music shimmers with the overtones of the piano. ... Mr. Brahem bases several of the tunes on spare, broken chords, repeated in the childlike manner of Satie. Simple though they are, however, they contain beguiling Arabesques. The three musicians rarely appear at once, performing as a trio on only seven of the album's 12 tracks. For the most part, you hear duets - piano and oud, oud and accordion, accordion and oud. The musicians often double each other's lines, but seldom in unison, which enhances the music's intimacy while producing a floating, echo effect.If every band projects "an image of coummunity," as the critic Greil Marcus once suggested, then Mr. Brahem's trio - part takht, part jazz trio, part chamber ensemble - evokes a kind of 21st century Andalusia, in which European and Arab sensibilities have merged so profoundly that the borders between them have dissolved. The image may be utopian, but its beauty is undeniable.
Adam Shatz, The New York Times
Throughout the record, the musicians maintain an exquisite balance and make only subtle changes in tempo or tone. Their sense of melancholy is so natural and comfortable it's childlike. On this tune, "Leila and the Land of the Carousel" a waltzing rhythm and revolving melody suggest a girl on that classic joyride...When he quit the oud for a while and played the piano instead, Anouar Brahem recovered his powers of musical myth-making. On this record, he creates a fairy tale setting and ultimately a storybook ending. The accordion lays down sustained chords like lengthening shadows in a forest. The piano conjures low-key sunlight and offers overtones of reconciliation. And in the arabesque path of "The Black Cat's Footsteps," Brahem finds a way back home to his beloved oud and to the songbird inside.
"All things considered", USA - National Public Radio
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