Philippe Sellam
Philippe Sellam (born October 24, 1960 in Algiers ) is a French jazz musician ( saxophone and composition ).
Live and act
Sellam began to play the saxophone as an autodidact at the age of 15 and initially orientated himself on the music of Chicago . He studied at the Institute Art Culture Perception of Alan Silva . In the early 1980s he appeared on the French jazz scene with Silva's Celestrial Communication Orchestra ( Desert Mirage , 1982), where he then belonged to Laurent Cugny's big band Lumière with Gil Evans as well as to La Bande à Badault and the orchestra in the early 1990s National de Jazz under the direction of Denis Badault ( À plus tard , 1992). From 1990 he played in Megaoctet of Andy Emler and searched in the same year the cooperation with the guitarist Gilles Renne , with whom he from 1993 in Sellam-Renne African Project worked. In 2002 he founded the group NoJazz (whose first album was produced by Teo Macero and with which he can be seen on Canal + on Saturdays in the program Salut les Terriens since 2006 ). He also directed the band Captain Mercier .
He also played with Michel Petrucciani , Paco Séry , Michel Portal , Roy Hargrove , Mino Cinelu , Bernard Purdie , Laurent de Wilde , Glenn Ferris , Omar Sosa , Stéphane Belmondo , Emmanuel Bex , Médéric Collignon , Electro de luxe , François Jeanneau , Patrice Caratini , Chico Freeman , John Scofield , MC Solaar , but also with Henri Salvador , Charles Aznavour , Claude Nougaro , Michel Jonasz , Sanseverino , Lio , Mangu , Wally Badarou or Jean-Jacques Milteau . He is involved in more than 100 record productions.
Discographic notes
- Sellam / Renne: Rendez-vous (1990)
- Sellam / Renne African project: Embrasse-moi (1995)
- Voyages (1995)
- Sérénade (1995)
- Dans la montage (1997)
- Sellam / Renne African project: Sortilège (2008)
- Milagro (2008)
- Sellam / Renne No Spirit: Give Me Five (2013)
Lexical entry
- Philippe Carles , André Clergeat , Jean-Louis Comolli : Le nouveau dictionnaire du jazz . R. Laffont: Paris 2011
Web links
- Web presence
- Brief portrait
- Philippe Sellam at Discogs (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sellam, Philippe |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz musician (saxophone, composition) |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Algiers |