Philippe Aerts
Philippe Aerts (born June 21, 1964 ) is a Belgian jazz bassist.
Aerts played guitar and bass guitar when he was eleven and learned the double bass when he was fourteen, which he received from his father, an amateur bassist. A year later he was playing with Dixieland bands. He learned jazz mainly from records like Ray Brown's . He came to contemporary modern jazz through contacts with musicians such as Charles Loos and Diederik Wissels . Since then he has been a busy bass player in Belgium and internationally. He played at the North Sea Jazz Festival and toured with the quartet of Rick Hollander , the trio of Philip Catherine , with the quartet of Richard Galliano and Gary Burton and with Charlie Mariano . He also played u. a. with Chet Baker , Lee Konitz , Mal Waldron , Nathalie Loriers and Bob Brookmeyer .
In 1997 he moved to New York , where he played with the big band of Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin (in " Birdland (New York) ", on tour and, for example, at the Monterey Jazz Festival ), as well as in the trio of both In New York he also played with Nicholas Payton , Tom Harrell and Helen Merrill . From 2000 he lived in Switzerland for a few years. Currently (2014) he plays in his own trio (album "Cat Walk" 1995, his first as a leader) and quartet (album "Back to the Old World" 2002 with Bert Joris and the saxophonist John Ruocco), with Bert's quartet Joris , that of Ivan Paduart , that of Igor Gehenot and the trio of Philip Catherine. His trio included John Ruocco and drummer Tony Levin .
He teaches jazz at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven and since 2010 at the Maastricht Conservatorium .
In 2002 he received the Django d'Or (Belgium) as "Established Musician".
Web links
- Aerts at Jazz in Belgium
- Philippe Aerts at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Aerts, Philippe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian jazz bassist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1964 |