Vincent Lê Quang

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Vincent Lê Quang (2011)

Vincent Lê Quang (born August 4, 1975 ) is a French jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , soprano saxophone , also piano , composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Lê Quang, who was interested in music from a young age, first learned to play the keyboard by himself and eventually began to play the saxophone at the age of 13 after seeing Clint Eastwood's music biography Bird (1988). He first completed training at the Clermont-Ferrand Regional Conservatory in saxophone playing, advanced music theory and music analysis and singing. Quickly noticed by his teachers, he decided to pursue a career as a musician. Between 1994 and 1998 he worked with Pierre Doury at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where he won first prize with distinction and jury award. At the same time he studied mathematics.

The soprano saxophone became his main instrument; From 1999 Lê Quang studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris , where he studied jazz and improvisation music, modal music from North India and music ethnology. He graduated with honors in 2005 after a cycle of perfecting jazz and improvised music. His teachers were François Jeanneau , Riccardo Del Fra , Patrick Moutal , Hervé Sellin , François Théberge , Glenn Ferris , Alain Savouret and Rainer Boech . The discovery of ethno music in Gilles Léothaud's class influenced his personal ideas about music.

Lê Quang worked from the 2000s a. a. with Riccardo Del Fra , with whom the first recordings were made ( Roses And Roots , 2004), furthermore with Jean-Philippe Muvien ( Air Libre ), Beata Palya ( Adieu les complexes ) and Aldo Romano ( Liberi Sumus ). He was also a member of Trio 1 (with Jean-Luc Landsweerdt and Christophe Hache), played in a duo with Vincent Peirani and his own quartet with Bruno Ruder, Joe Quitzke and Guido Zorn, which has existed since 2006.

In 2003 he founded the trio Yes Is a Pleasant Country with the singer Jeanne Added and Bruno Ruder (piano) , in which the singing is integrated into the ensemble performance based on the example of the duo of Jeanne Lee with Ran Blake . They interpreted compositions by Lê Quang as well as poems by William Butler Yeats or EE Cummings , pieces by Mingus , jazz standards and songs by Serge Gainsbourg and the Beatles . The album of the same name was released in 2011.

In 2007 Quang recorded the album The Course of the Moon in a duo with pianist László Fassang . A pneumothorax disease (2009/10) interrupted Lê Quang's career. He has also given concerts in Germany with Daniel Humair's quartet ( Seasoning , with Emil Spanyi and Stéphane Kerecki ). Since 2017 he has been a member of the Sand Quintet by Henri Texier ( Sand Woman , with Sébastien Texier , Manu Codjia and Gautier Garrigue ). He has been teaching at the Paris National Conservatory since 2007.

In the field of jazz, he was involved in seven recording sessions between 2004 and 2018, according to Tom Lord . Further recordings were made a. with Vincent Peirani ( Gunung Sebatu , 2009) and Jerry Léonide ( The Key (ACT, 2014)).

Discographic notes

  • Fassang, Lê Quang The Course of the Moon (Orpheia 2007)
  • Bruno Ruder, Jeanne Added, Vincent Lê Quang Yes Is a Pleasant Country (Sans Bruit 2011)
  • Daniel Humair, Vincent Lê Quang, Stéphane Kerecki Modern Art (INC / SES 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Malguénac avec Madeleine & Salomon, Vincent Lê Quang et Sons of Kemet. Jazz Magazine, August 1, 2019, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Franck Bergerot: Jeanne added, Vincent Le Quang, Bruno rudder: a pleasant country. Franck Bergerot, August 27, 2018, accessed on August 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 25, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Lê Quang, Vincent
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Quang, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician (saxophone, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1975