Philippe Maté

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Philippe Maté (* 1939 ; † November 18, 2002 ) was a French jazz musician who mainly performed on the alto saxophone and as a composer.

Act

Maté worked as a studio musician for Claude François and in the early 1960s also belonged to the rock group Les Gamblers , who performed with Olivier Despax and recorded for Barclay Records . Between 1964 and 1980 he was a member of the Jean-Claude Petit orchestra and then worked as musical director for Nino Ferrer .

He also explored with the Acting Trio , the new improvised music . In the 1970s he formed large-format bands with Jef Gilson , initially in the field of free jazz and then moving on to post bop ; with the big band Europamerica he also appeared at the Moers Festival in 1979 . Together with François Jeanneau , Jean-Louis Chautemps and Jacques Di Donato , Maté belonged to the saxophone quartet Le Quatuor de saxophones , which released the album Mad-sax 2 in 1982 and performed at festivals in Western and Central Europe. He also performed with Martial Solal . He later directed the La fenêtre jazz club in Paris.

Maté can also be heard on albums by François Jeanneau ( Pandemonium ), Butch Morris (1977) and Fawzi al-Aiedy ( Paris-Baghdad ).

Discographic notes

  • Acting Trio ( BYG actuel 1969, with André Maurice, Jean-Pierre Sabar)
  • Jean Guerin Tacet (Future 1971, with Bernard Vitet , Françoise Achard, Jean Paul Rondepierre, Dieter Guévissler)
  • Philippe Maté / Jef Gilson Workshop (Palm 1973)
  • Butch Morris / Jean-Louis Chautemps / François Jeanneau / André Jaume / Philippe Maté / Alain Hatot / Marc Richard / Jean-Charles Capon / Jeff Gilson / Pierre-Yves Sorin / George Brown Europamerica (Palm 1977)
  • Émotions (Charlotte 1998, with François Méchali , Hugue Maté)

literature

  • Emilie Tillier Recherches sur Philippe Maté (1939–2002) musicien de jazz français (unpublished master's thesis) Université François-Rabelais (Tours) 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on Philippe Maté in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
  2. ↑ Jean Chalvidant & Hervé Mouvet, La Belle Histoire des Groupes de Rock Français , Edition F. Lanove, 2001, p. 100ff.
  3. ↑ Guillaume Belhomme, Philippe Robert Free Fight: This is our (new) thing Camion blanc: Rosières-en-Haye, 2012
  4. ↑ SUDOC
personal data
SURNAME Maté, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician (saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 2002