SERGE FORTÉ
Genres: Post Bop, Third Stream, Latin Jazz, Hard Bop • Tunisia

Serge Forté, Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, born 1st May 1960 in Tunis. 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, Serge Forté recorded VAÏNA 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 and Michel Petrucciani at Festival Heineken, etc.… In 1992, Serge recorded the future LA VIE EN BLEU, on French Songs , and then MOSAÏQUE in 1994. 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. In 2003 comes the album, JAZZ’IN CHOPIN.Chopin’s melodies are treated here like Jazz read more...