Hervé Sellin

Hervé Sellin (* 1957 in Paris ) is a French jazz pianist.

Live and act

Sellin began with the trumpet (his father Pierre was a classical trumpeter who introduced him to jazz at an early age), switched to the trombone and finally to the piano. He studied under Aldo Ciccolini at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP), where he graduated in 1980 with prizes in chamber music and piano. In the 1980s he played with jazz musicians such as Guy Lafitte , Art Farmer , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Sweets Edison , Chet Baker , Dizzy Gillespie , Joe Newman , Slide Hampton , Gérard Badini , Clifford Jordan and James Moody . In 1984 he became the accompanist of Johnny Griffin , in whose European quartet he played for 15 years, and from 1990 onwards he frequently toured Dee Dee Bridgewater , with whom he recorded a live concert in 1986. In 1989 he founded his own septet (with, inter alia, Sylvain Beuf ), which recorded in 1991 with Branford Marsalis (Columbia / Sony "Hervé Sellin Sextet feat. Branford Marsalis") and in 1991 with Johnny Griffin ("Live at Jazz Valley"). Since 1994 he has been a professor at the CNSM (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique) in Paris.

Between 1995 and 2000 he toured with the drummer and composer Bertrand Renaudin and recorded three albums with him. In 1997 he recorded the album "Acoustic MOP" with his trio ( Gilles Naturel on bass, Benjamin Henocq on drums). In 2001 he recorded the live solo album Thèmes et Variations at the Bayonne Jazz Festival and in 2002 at the Marciac Jazz Festival he performed a suite he had composed for Tentet for the 25th anniversary of the festival. Since 2002 he has been on tour with Richard Galliano's “Piazzolla forever” and recorded with him. In 2003 he was invited by Wynton Marsalis to write music for a tentet at Lincoln Center in New York City . In 2008 he released the album Marciac-New York-Express with his Tentet (Crystal Records / Harmonia Mundi), which received the prize for the best album of the year from the French Jazz Academy.

In 1990 he received the Prix ​​Django Reinhardt .

Web links

• International Jazz Productions, biography

• Sound carrier by Hervé Sellin in the catalog of the German National Library