PHILIP CATHERINE Sunset (Paris)
Philip Catherine - guitar
Emmanuel BEX - Hammond Organ
Aldo Romano - batteries
Photo by Peggy Picot ©
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This article was inspired by a quote from Mick Goodrick which reads something like this ... "the Jazz started to play really after 50 years of age. "
Saturday, April 7 ... I'm at Sunset in Paris (one of the jazz places among the best known) ... ... first row narrow red chairs ... great voices. .. next to me ... my girl behind us and to the right of the small stage at least two generations of musicians, fans, artists, scholars, dreamers, curious ... waiting ... at 21.15 ... 21.45 .. .22.00 ... Dressed in a white premeditated Philip embraces his old Gibson and peeling ... look at the various Boss pedals and a touch-up tuning ... ... nod in agreement with Aldo ... then Emmanuel ... and go!
What is striking now is the playfulness with which the three 'kids' cross the tracks ... in swing, fusion / rock and who knows what Philip plays with his pedals, perhaps attracted first by their color ... now a foot on the delay, time on the chorus, then overdrive ... and an unlikely path to the amazing compositions and an impressive first Aldo Bex and the voice of his Hammond, then.
Philip gets up and sits continuously, shake, sway to the tune ... look at his scores as he had never seen them before then ... forget a few chords of a strange "My Foolish Heart" that there little rears in a single distorted blues / pentatonic.
Another song, two, three ... jump rope, and with it ... then the voicings and Aldo Bex "Bopp", without Truce ... eyes closed ... a thousand ticks invade their faces ... Philip assembled his new rope ... and the three "kids" find themselves once again in the same park, each ride on their own!
Alberto Tebaldi (April 9, 2007)
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