Pascal Le Boeuf

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Pascal Le Boeuf (born August 3, 1986 in Santa Cruz (California) ) is an American musician ( piano , keyboards , composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Pascal Le Boeuf moved to New York City in 2004, where he performed as a band leader, sideman and (with his twin brother Remy Le Boeuf ) co-leader of Le Boeuf Brothers . He received his Bachelor and Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music . Currently (2019) he is a PhD student and Naumburg Doctoral Fellow in musical composition at Princeton University . The first recordings were made in 2005 with the self-released album Deuces Wild , which he made together with his brother Remy , followed by Migration (under his own name) and recordings with Mike Ruby, Bastian Weinhold and the singer Allan Harris . With his keyboards he has appeared as support for D'Angelo's Black Messiah Tour and Clean Bandits Rather Be Tour . He also toured with the gospel funk band Jesus on the Mainline .

Pascal's Triangle was released in 2013 as a trio with Linda Oh and Justin Brown . Tivon Pennicott (tenor saxophone), Rick Rosato (bass) and Jochen Rückert (drums) currently play in the quintet Le Boeuf Brothers , which he leads with brother Remy Le Boeuf (alto saxophone ). After the albums House Without a Door (self-published in 2008) and In Praise of Shadows (released in 2011 by Nineteen-Eight Records), he recorded the album Imaginist in 2014 with Le Boeuf Brothers (this time reinforced by a string quartet ) . With singer Emily Greene he forms the duo Kissy Girls , with bassist Leon Boykins and drummer Jake Goldbas the roots / rock trio King Pony . According to Tom Lord , he was involved in six recording sessions in the field of jazz between 2009 and 2016, most recently with the EP Into the Anthropocene , released under his own name, with violist Jessica Meyer and cellist Dave Eggar. He composed music for the 2008 Emmy Award- winning mountaineering film King Lines (2007, directed by Josh Lowell and Peter Mortimer). The cellist Nick Photinos recorded his composition Alpha . The violinist Barbora Kolářová will also perform his composition Imp in Impulse .

Prizes and awards

Le Boeuf has received several awards as a composer. He won first place at the International Songwriting Competition 2008. This was followed by Independent Music Awards in the categories Jazz, Eclectic and Electronica, the Johnny Mandel Award from the ASCAP Foundation in 2015 and a FROMM commission from Harvard University in 2016. In 2017 he received the Cortona Award , in 2018 his composition Alkaline was nominated by the album Imaginist for a Grammy as "best instrumental composition".

Discographic notes

  • Migration (2006)
  • Le Boeuf Brothers: Remixed (Nineteen-Eight, 2013)
  • Le Boeuf Brothers + Jack Quartet: Imaginist (New Focus Recordings, 2014; with Ben Wendel , Remy Le Boeuf, Ben Street , Pete Martin Nevin , Justin Brown, Peter Kronreif + Jack String Quartet)
  • In the Anthropocene (2018)

Web links

Commons : Pascal Le Boeuf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography
  2. ↑ King Lines in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ Press release (Princeton University)
  4. ↑ Entry (Grammy)
personal data
SURNAME Le Boeuf, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Cruz (California)