Philippe Soirat

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Philippe Soirat (born March 11, 1961 in Menton ) is a French jazz musician ( drums ).

Live and act

Soirat initially dealt with the drums as an autodidact . Then he studied both at the Monaco Conservatory and at the Center for Contemporary Music in Nice. In 1986 he moved to Paris, where he worked with musicians such as Barney Wilen , Ricky Ford , Yannick Rieu, Lionel and Stéphane Belmondo , Ray Brown , Laurent de Wilde , Johnny Griffin , Dee Dee Bridgewater , Mark Turner , Phil Woods and Steve Grossman . With his quartet, to which the saxophonist David Prez, the pianist Vincent Bourgeyx and the bassistYoni Zelnik , he released a first album under his own name in 2015, which was followed by a second album with the same line-up in 2019. He can be heard on almost 70 albums, including records by Pierre-Yves Sorin ( Parfums de Contrebasse ), Mathias Allamane / Barry Harris , François Théberge , Gaël Horellou , Laurence Allison, Laurent Coq , the Dal Sasso / Belmondo Big Band and by Samy Thiébault.

Discographic notes

  • George Cables Trio Alone Together (Movieplay 1995, with Carlos Barretto )
  • You Know I Care (Paris Jazz Underground 2015)
  • Lines and Spaces (Paris Jazz Underground 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andy Gregory The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 London 2002, p. 476
  2. ↑ a b meeting (Paris Move)
  3. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
  4. ↑ Review (France Musique)
personal data
SURNAME Soirat, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician (drums)
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Menton