(Smooth Jazz) Philippe Saisse - Дискография (10 альбомов) - 1988-2009, MP3 (tracks), 192-320 kbps
Philippe Saisse - Дискография (10 альбомов)
Жанр: Smooth Jazz
Год выпуска диска: 1988 - 2009
Производитель диска: France
Общая продолжительность альбомов: 09:31:00
Аудио кодек: MP3
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: 192-320 kbps
Новое десятилетие открывает мультиинструменталиста, композитора-песенника и исполнителя Филиппа Сэсса, переживающего новый жизненный этап. Недавно впервые став отцом, он паче чаяния занят в своих популярных ипостасях продюсера, аранжировщика, композитора и сессионного музыканта. В то же время, он с удовольствием экспериментирует на пересечении стилей музыкального андерграунда и воплощает свои идеи в звуках.
Рожденный в музыкальной семье - его отец был композитором и исполнителем своих песен, работал на CBS Records во Франции - Сэсс связывает свое разнообразие вкусов с детством, проведенным в Марселе и Париже, где по радио транслировали всевозможные стили поп-музыки. "Африканский и Арабский саунд никогда не был чужд французской культуры", объясняет он. "Насколько я знаю, это было нотделимо в период моего взросления, во Франции это было частью повседневной жизни".
Подростком Сэсс посещал Парижскую Национальную консерваторию, где обучался игре на фортепиано, перкуссии, изучал теорию музыки и композицию. По окончании консерватории в 1975 году он выиграл Первую премию в конкурсе перкуссионистов и клавишников, за что был удостоен престижной стипендии Пола Винтера (Paul Winter) и поступил в музыкальный колледж Беркли в Бостоне. Там он совершенствовал свое композиторсткое мастерство под руководством Майкла Гиббса (Michael Gibbs) и выступал со своим кумиром, вибрафонистом Гари Бёртоном (Gary Burton), в то же время впитывая в себя творчество эпохальных исполнителей, таких как Чик Кориа (Chick Corea), Кита Джаррета (Keith Jarret) и оркестра Махавишну (Mahavishnu Orchestra). "Я всегда знал, что не стану классическим исполнителем" - вспоминает он.
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It was no surprise then that Saisse jumped straight out of Berklee into a successful session career, performing with Narada Michael Walden, Al Di Meola, Billy Cobham, Tom Scott, Steve Kahn, Alphonso Johnson and others - "the people I used to worship as a teenager." Soon his career was expanding. He played keyboards for Chaka Khan ('I Feel For You,') the Rolling Stones ('Harlem Shuffle'), David Bowie ('Scary Monsters'), the B-52's ('Love Shack'), Vanessa Williams, and Tina Turner. He composed for David Sanborn, Al Jarreau and Al Di Meola. He became co-music director/keyboardist for Sanborn's Night Music Show on NBC, toured with the American Ballet Theater, and produced Chaka Khan's album Destiny. And he launched a solo career.
His first album, Valerian, was released on Windham Hill in 1988. While it established him as an artist in his own right, his solo career really took off when he signed with Verve Forecast in the mid-nineties. Steered by the appeal of his complex yet seemingly effortless keyboard solos, Saisse's Verve debut Masques firmly established him in the adult contemporary field. The follow-up NeXT Voyage further endeared him to this audience, but it also featured turntable scratching and spoken word, signs that Saisse wanted to expand his oeuvre. During vacations back to France in the early 1990s, he had been introduced to such acts as world beat dance crossovers Deep Forest, which opened his ears to the experimentation going on in clubs from Paris to New York. In particular, during a holiday in the Alps he befriended a younger contingent, with whom he found that "I wasn't able to play them my stuff, because they could not really relate to it. What I liked and I listened to and they listened to was not at all in the same vein as what I actually do."
To correct this balance while staying true to his core audience, Saisse arranged cross-generational collaborations for his third Verve album Halfway Till Dawn. Twenty something Philadelphian Jamie Myerson produced "Fusionesque," a mixture of '70s solo styles and '90s production qualities. "Kinetic Groove," a collaboration with composer and famed dance music remixer –producer Tom Salta, provided Saisse with an opportunity to solo on his Mini-Moog synthesizer for the first time in twelve years. And "La Grande Jatte" and "Vol De Nuit" featured frenetic drum and bass rhythms performed live by drummer Tony V. "It was certainly a challenge to solo on top of these great grooves," says Saisse. "It really was a blast, like going back to the '70s and playing with Al DiMeola. No holds barred. I just did not put any kind of filter into my playing." Saisse also teamed up with acclaimed Benin-born singer Angelique Kidjo for "La Vie," mixing African-flavored world beat with an electronica dance beat. The most overt musical departure from Saisse's considered repertoire, "La Vie" was subsequently taken up by Procter and Gamble for use in their Downy TV commercials.
At the time of its release, Saisse said of Halfway Till Dawn that, "although the authorities will segregate and say you can't have anything to do with dance and remix because you're a smooth jazz guy, I just decided I'm not going to buy that. This is a direction I feel is fresher and a direction that I feel some people need to go into. It's just something that's very natural to me."
In hindsight it appears that the smooth jazz market simply wasn't ready to take that step forward with him. "It got tremendous reviews and incredible response from the fans," says Saisse, stressing that he means, "the fans of what I do, not the fans of my colleagues in smooth jazz." The extracurricular popularity of "La Vie" provided valuable vindication of his musical progression. "I honestly think that the salvation of instrumental music is to collaborate with these other genres of music. I can't out-James Bob James and out-Sample Joe Sample. All the guys who are contemporary guys are trying to do that and it's just so lame. Because no one can play better than those guys."
Saisse has been throwing himself into his original professional role as a hired hand that can bring magic to all manner of musical projects. He produced part of the new hit Marc Antoine album, featuring one of his compositions, started a new Memphis Blues inspired project for one of the world’s most celebrated R&B saxophonist and close friend Kirk Whalum; featuring another close collaborator Jeff Golub on guitar and has been cranking out pop songs with legendary tunesmith Dennis Lambert, one of which has been featured on MTV’s 2GE+HER’s album.
Then there has been the work in the Rai field, a music close to Saisse's heart from his childhood in Marseille, and his honeymoon in Morocco. The first project was for the album Samra with rising Rai sensation Faudel, brought to Saisse's attention via his Japanese friend Goh Hotoda, and which he describes as "an interesting marriage of Goh who came from a dance remixer backgr_ound, Faudel who did his straight-ahead Rai thing and me doing some New York funk keyboards."
Just a week after that session, Saisse's old friend Nile Rodgers called him to work on Rai superstar Cheb Mami's new album, Dellali. "That was a total New York thing with Omar Hakim on drums, me on keyboards, Niles playing guitar, and Jerry Barnes playing bass. When someone as big as Mami says he wants to go to New York and make an album with Nile Rodgers, it's done."
As well as working on the theme for the HBO Bob Costas show “On the Record” with David Sanborn, playing and arranging for British neo-soul singer Oliver Darley’s eponymous release and co-producing with Dennis Lambert a musical number by actor/comedian John Leguizamo for his debut album based on his hit Broadway show “Sexaholic”.
January 2002 also was a milestone in his live performance career having headlined the prestigious Osaka “Blue Note” with his Jazz Trio “Acoustique” with Jazz Great David Finck on bass and Scooter Warner on drums, part of a Japanese tour promoting his 2 JVC releases. His latest, “Ready To Go”, features Kelli Sae (of Incognito and Count Basic fame) on vocals with whom he so-wrote most of the material.
Philippe’s most recent projects as an arranger/keyboard player include Rod Stewart’s platinum hit “The Great American Song Book” I & II, Michael Amante classical crossover album and a duet with Celine Dion and Charles Aznavour, all produced by legendary producer Phil Ramone.
Looking towards his own music, Saisse is attracted by the prospect of more cross-cultural collaborations, and especially, by the potential of the web to offer new recordings as they are made. "My engineer has been mixing some of my demos and he sends me MP4s by email and I listen to then. I'm thinking, “This works. I could do a new track in my own studio and put it up on my web site and say, Here's a new piece of music, come get it.'"
To correct this balance while staying true to his core audience, Saisse arranged cross-generational collaborations for his third Verve album Halfway Till Dawn. Twenty something Philadelphian Jamie Myerson produced "Fusionesque," a mixture of '70s solo styles and '90s production qualities. "Kinetic Groove," a collaboration with composer and famed dance music remixer –producer Tom Salta, provided Saisse with an opportunity to solo on his Mini-Moog synthesizer for the first time in twelve years. And "La Grande Jatte" and "Vol De Nuit" featured frenetic drum and bass rhythms performed live by drummer Tony V. "It was certainly a challenge to solo on top of these great grooves," says Saisse. "It really was a blast, like going back to the '70s and playing with Al DiMeola. No holds barred. I just did not put any kind of filter into my playing." Saisse also teamed up with acclaimed Benin-born singer Angelique Kidjo for "La Vie," mixing African-flavored world beat with an electronica dance beat. The most overt musical departure from Saisse's considered repertoire, "La Vie" was subsequently taken up by Procter and Gamble for use in their Downy TV commercials.
At the time of its release, Saisse said of Halfway Till Dawn that, "although the authorities will segregate and say you can't have anything to do with dance and remix because you're a smooth jazz guy, I just decided I'm not going to buy that. This is a direction I feel is fresher and a direction that I feel some people need to go into. It's just something that's very natural to me."
In hindsight it appears that the smooth jazz market simply wasn't ready to take that step forward with him. "It got tremendous reviews and incredible response from the fans," says Saisse, stressing that he means, "the fans of what I do, not the fans of my colleagues in smooth jazz." The extracurricular popularity of "La Vie" provided valuable vindication of his musical progression. "I honestly think that the salvation of instrumental music is to collaborate with these other genres of music. I can't out-James Bob James and out-Sample Joe Sample. All the guys who are contemporary guys are trying to do that and it's just so lame. Because no one can play better than those guys."
Saisse has been throwing himself into his original professional role as a hired hand that can bring magic to all manner of musical projects. He produced part of the new hit Marc Antoine album, featuring one of his compositions, started a new Memphis Blues inspired project for one of the world’s most celebrated R&B saxophonist and close friend Kirk Whalum; featuring another close collaborator Jeff Golub on guitar and has been cranking out pop songs with legendary tunesmith Dennis Lambert, one of which has been featured on MTV’s 2GE+HER’s album.
Then there has been the work in the Rai field, a music close to Saisse's heart from his childhood in Marseille, and his honeymoon in Morocco. The first project was for the album Samra with rising Rai sensation Faudel, brought to Saisse's attention via his Japanese friend Goh Hotoda, and which he describes as "an interesting marriage of Goh who came from a dance remixer backgr_ound, Faudel who did his straight-ahead Rai thing and me doing some New York funk keyboards."
Just a week after that session, Saisse's old friend Nile Rodgers called him to work on Rai superstar Cheb Mami's new album, Dellali. "That was a total New York thing with Omar Hakim on drums, me on keyboards, Niles playing guitar, and Jerry Barnes playing bass. When someone as big as Mami says he wants to go to New York and make an album with Nile Rodgers, it's done."
As well as working on the theme for the HBO Bob Costas show “On the Record” with David Sanborn, playing and arranging for British neo-soul singer Oliver Darley’s eponymous release and co-producing with Dennis Lambert a musical number by actor/comedian John Leguizamo for his debut album based on his hit Broadway show “Sexaholic”.
January 2002 also was a milestone in his live performance career having headlined the prestigious Osaka “Blue Note” with his Jazz Trio “Acoustique” with Jazz Great David Finck on bass and Scooter Warner on drums, part of a Japanese tour promoting his 2 JVC releases. His latest, “Ready To Go”, features Kelli Sae (of Incognito and Count Basic fame) on vocals with whom he so-wrote most of the material.
Philippe’s most recent projects as an arranger/keyboard player include Rod Stewart’s platinum hit “The Great American Song Book” I & II, Michael Amante classical crossover album and a duet with Celine Dion and Charles Aznavour, all produced by legendary producer Phil Ramone.
Looking towards his own music, Saisse is attracted by the prospect of more cross-cultural collaborations, and especially, by the potential of the web to offer new recordings as they are made. "My engineer has been mixing some of my demos and he sends me MP4s by email and I listen to then. I'm thinking, “This works. I could do a new track in my own studio and put it up on my web site and say, Here's a new piece of music, come get it.'" Keep this site bookmarked for future developments.
Трэклист:
Valerian (1988) 320 kbps
01. Land Of The Morning Calm
02. Valerian
03. Chihuahua Pearl
04. God Son Paris
05. Ma Muse
06. Rameau's Nephew
07. Glamorous Glennis
08. In Memoriam Faure
09. Aztec Ace
10. Tiahuanaco
11. Nougaro Groove
Продолжительность: 42:45
Storyteller (1991) 320 kbps
01. Hakone
02. Hypsis
03. Storyteller Intro
04. Storyteller
05. Galaxity
06. Winter tale
07. Les 2 Capitaines
08. Valentin
09. Arc-en-ciel
10. 11/14/89
11. Kelbomek
12. #4
13. S.T.
14. Hakone Reprise
Продолжительность:59:49
Dream Catcher (1994) 192 kbps
01. Madison rose
02. Proko groove
03. Masques
04. Me & the boyz
05. Prelude
06. Wolverine
07. Maurice & Igor
08. Images
09. Secret garden
10. Dream catcher
11. Crystal flight
12. Images [reprise]
13. Will you ever know (for joniece)
Продолжительность: 01:05:55
Masques (1995) 320 kbps
01. Me & The Boyz
02. Masques
03. Madison Rose
04. Feelin' Kinda Sexy
05. Proko-Groove
06. Secret Garden
07. Wolverine
08. Maurice & Igor
09. Prelude
10. Images
11. Will You Ever Know
Продолжительность: 53:48
NExt Voyage (1997) 320 kbps
01. Land of the Flying Funk
02. Moanin'
03. Riviera
04. Next Voyage
05. Back into FX
06. Film Noir
07. Native Son
08. Eye on You
09. Phar Cry
10. Young Nation
11. Miracle D-Knowledge,
12. Film Noir (Lemmy Caution Mix)
Продолжительность: 01:05:51
Halfway Till Dawn (1999) 320 kbps
01. Fusionesque
02. The Girl With Botticelli Eyes
03. Kinetic Groove
04. Ever Up And Onward
05. Halfway 'Til Dawn
06. La Vie
07. Minds Alike
08. La Grande Jatte
09. Vol De Nuit
10. Strays
11. Love, Life And The Universe
12. La Vie (Pop Remix)
Продолжительность: 01:01:11
My Favorite Songs (2003) 192 kbps
01. Poem for #15
02. Michelle
03. Once
04. Summer breeze
05. I'm Not in Love
06. Naturally
07. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest
08. Song for Jun
09. Laura
10. La valse des Lilas (Once upon a summertime)
11. About time
12. Song for Saisse
13. Como La Lluvia (Just Like Rain
Продолжительность: 01:06:48
Ready to go (2004) 320 kbps
01. Stayin' Alive - Written by the Bee Gees
02. Ready To Go
03. Wait for the Day
04. Finck it up
05. Okay
06. Oooh
07. Nothing
08. Dorian
09. With You
10. Go For It
11. Wild World - Written by Cat Stevens
Продолжительность:49:32
The Body And Soul Sessions (2006) 320 kbps
01. Do It Again
02. September
03. Lady Madonna
04. Harley Davidson
05. Lovely Day
06. Fire And Rain
07. Constant Rain (Chove Chuva)
08. The Dolphin
09. Comment Te Dire Adieu
10. Body And Soul
11. Were All Alone
12. If I Ever Lose This Heaven
Продолжительность:54:48
At World's Edge (2009) 320 kbps
01. From Nowhere To Now Here (Introduction)
02. From Nowhere To Now Here
03. Rover, The
04. Billy'S Blues
05. At World's Edge [Instrumental]
06. Monday Afternoon
07. Assante Sana
08. Rappongi Blues
09. Through Tainted Glass
10. Topanga Moon Dance
11. Junto
12. At World's Edge (Vocal)
Продолжительность:50:42