Fabien Seville

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Fabien Sevilla (* 27. December 1971 in Vevey ) is a Swiss jazz - bassist .

Live and act

Seville studied at the Conservatoire de Jazz in Montreux (diploma 2000), also for a year at the New School Jazz in New York double bass, piano and composition with Reginald Workman , Buster Williams , Andy McKee and Gary Dial , then classical double bass at the HEM Lausanne (diploma 2008). From the 1990s he played in the Swiss jazz scene a. a. with Jérôme Berney , Malcolm Braff , François Lindemann , Marcel Papaux , Norbert Pfammatter , also in the United States with Kyoko Kitamura , Andy Milne and Ras Moshe . Starting in 1988, he performed his own projects at various festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival , Jazz à Juan , Jazz d'Avignon and the Festival de Jazz de la Défense . Since 2009 Sevilla has also performed as a soloist. In 2010 his solo album Kôans - Contrebasse Solo (Altrisuoni) was released, followed by Expansion ( Unit Records , 2013). He also leads the Trio Format A'3 , with Thierry Romanens and Jérôme Berney. He also took part in various dance and film projects (such as the music for the silent film La Vocation d'André Carel (1925) by Jean Choux ) and teaches double bass in Lausanne, Zurich and the École Internationale de Genève. In the field of jazz he was involved in six recording sessions between 1999 and 2006, with Format A Trois (with Alexis Gfeller and Patrick Dufresne ) and Soweto Kinch .

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Individual evidence

  1. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 17, 2014)