- country:France
- style(s):Jazz
- label:Ella Productions
- artist posted by:Ella Productions
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At 18 years old, studying musicology in Lyon, he discovers Jazz and listen to all masters with avidity. He teached classical piano to pay his studies, playing with local groups also.
Professor at CIM, Paris, from 1988 to 1990, he recorded his first cd
Vaina, latin jazz compositions, with in bonus a duo with Michel Petrucciani, followed by many concerts as 1st parts of Miles Davis in Poitiers, Stan Getz, Michel Petrucciani at Festival Heineken, etc.c , and then
Mosaique (FR3) in 1994.
In 1992, Serge recorded the future La Vie en Bleu (EP 2001-1), on French Songs, first record under Ella Productions published in 2001, only.
Jazz in Chopin (EP 2003-2), Live recording, perfectly illustrate the lack of border between Classical and Jazz.
Ella Productions s signature, with distributor Codaex brings him today a worldwide visibility .
Thanks for All, with percussionist Mino Cinelu, recorded in New York in 1997, released in january 2004 (EP 2004-3).
Believe in Jazz, Live with the great american singer Sheila Jordan, during her 75th birthday tour. (EP 2004-5)
La Boheme, coming in November 06, arrangements on French Great Songs, with on Elisa from Serge Gainsbourg, the great French singer Alain Chamfort.
Working on the play of Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner,
Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Phineas Newborn, Lennie Tristano, taking
some distance from his first latin mood and going deeper in his
technique and harmonic play. His students enjoy today his great talent
of pedagog and his help to prepare competition or concerts.
He plays worldwide, either in Trio, or with Sheila Jordan, and likes to give masterclasses, in English or French.