Philip Catherine is a Belgian jazz

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 guitarist

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Biography

He was born in London

London

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 from an English

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 mother and Belgian father.

He began playing in the 1960's with Lou Bennett

Lou Bennett

Lou Bennett was an American jazz organist.Bennett first played bebop on piano, but started playing organ in 1956 after hearing Jimmy Smith. Bennett toured the U.S. with an organ trio between 1957 and 1959, and then moved to Paris in 1960...

, Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...

 and Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli

Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist who founded the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands....

. He was then a member of the Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty

Jean-Luc Ponty is a French virtuoso violinist and jazz composer.- Early years:Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians on 29 September 1942 in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano...

 quintet

Quintet

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, right after he recorded his first album, Stream, produced by Frenchman

France

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 Sacha Distel

Sacha Distel

Sacha Distel was a French singer and guitarist who had hits with a cover version of the Academy Award-winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" , "Scoubidou", and "The Good Life". He was born in Paris.-Career:Sacha Distel, born Alexandre Distel, was a son of Russian White émigré Leonid Distel...

. The album was recorded in 1970, in Paris, and released in 1971 on Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

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. A year later, he met John Scofield

John Scofield

John Scofield , often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham,...

, Ran Blake

Ran Blake

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, George Benson

George Benson

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 and more musicians in Boston

Boston

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In 1977 Catherine replaced Jan Akkerman

Jan Akkerman

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 in the Dutch rock group Focus

Focus (band)

Focus is a Dutch rock band which was founded by classically trained organist/flautist Thijs van Leer in 1969, and is most famous for the instrumental pieces "Hocus Pocus" and "Sylvia"...

 and appeared on one album with the band, Focus con Proby

Focus con Proby

Focus con Proby is an album by Focus with the American singer P. J. Proby. It is Focus' 7th studio album and was released in January 1978. It also features guitarists Eef Albers and Philip Catherine and the other three Focus members from previous albums....

which also featured American singer P. J. Proby

P. J. Proby

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In the '80's he played extensively with the Chet Baker Trio

Chet Baker

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...

. He is featured on several of Chet's albums. He also played with Charlie Mingus who named Catherine Young Django

Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...

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AllAboutJazz

All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a leading jazz music website for enthusiasts and industry professionals based in Philadelphia in the United States.Founded by Michael Ricci in 1995, the Web-Site is maintained by a volunteer staff of writers, editors, and musicians, and provides coverage of all genres of jazz from...

 critique Ed Kopp in his review of Catherine's album Guitar Groove said:

• "Guitar Groove is an astoundingly lyrical effort from a guitarist in his prime. It should appeal equally to fans of mainstream jazz and fusion, and to anyone who appreciates superior jazz musicianship."

Another AllAboutJazz

All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a leading jazz music website for enthusiasts and industry professionals based in Philadelphia in the United States.Founded by Michael Ricci in 1995, the Web-Site is maintained by a volunteer staff of writers, editors, and musicians, and provides coverage of all genres of jazz from...

 critique John Kelman in his review of Cathrine's 2008 album Guitars Two said:

• "Sometimes it's not a good thing to get branded too early in your career. Called the young Django
  Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
  
  " by Charles Mingus and operating in the same fusion sphere as John McLaughlin
  John McLaughlin (musician)
  John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...
  
   and Larry Coryell
  Larry Coryell
  Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist.-Biography:Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands The Jailers, The Rumblers, The Royals, and The Flames. He also played with The Checkers from nearby...
  
  , Belgian Philip Catherine was pegged in the '70s as a firebrand guitarist, albeit an unabashedly lyrical one. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but Catherine's career, now nearing its sixth decade, has always been about a lot more than powerhouse fusion chops, something Guitars Two demonstrates in spades. Catherine's ability to reference traditional markers from Reinhardt to Wes Montgomery
  Wes Montgomery
  John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, Russell Malone, Emily...
  
  , while sounding like nobody but himself, makes Guitars Two the kind of career high point that ought to dispel the guitarist's early branding. The qualities that established his reputation remain, but are subsumed in a broader approach that makes Guitars Two deserving of a place alongside Pat Metheny
  Pat Metheny
  Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer.One of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to come to prominence in the 1970s and '80s, he is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects...
  
  's New Chautauqua
  New Chautauqua
  -Track listing:-Personnel:*Pat Metheny - electric 6 and 12 string guitars, acoustic guitar, 15 string harp guitar, electric bass-Charts:Album – Billboard...
  
   (ECM
  ECM (record label)
  ECM is a record label founded in Munich, Germany, in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a wide variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres...
  
  , 1979), Bill Frisell
  Bill Frisell
  William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
  
  's Ghost Town
  Ghost Town (Bill Frisell album)
  Ghost Town is the twelfth album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 1999 and is the first album featuring solo performances, overdubs and loops, by Frisell.-Reception:...
  
   (Nonesuch, 2000) and Joe Pass
  Joe Pass
  Joe Pass was an Italian-American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century...
  
  ' '70s Virtuoso series on Pablo', as a pinnacle of what can be done by one man and a handful of guitars."

He is now considered as the grandfather of Belgian jazz as he continues to play on the now very active Belgian jazz scene. He won the first Belgian Golden Django

Golden Django

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 (in 1995) as best French-speaking artist.

Discography

• Stream (1971)
• September Man (1975)
• Guitars (1975)
• Nairam (1976)
• Babel (1980)
• End of August (1982)
• Transparence (1986)
• September Sky (1988)
• Oscar (1988)
• I Remember You (1990)
• Moods, Vol.I (1992)
• Moods, Vol.II (1992)
• Philip Catherine "live" (1997)
• Guitar Groove (1998)
• Blue Prince
  Blue Prince
  -Personnel:* Philip Catherine - Guitar* Hein van de Geyn - Double bass* Hans Van Oosterhout - Drums* Bert Joris - Bugle, Trumpet...
  
  (2001)
• Summer Night (2002)
• Guitars Two (2008)
• Plays cole porter (2011)

With Other Artists

With Aziza Mustafa Zadeh:

• Jazziza (1996) Columbia 487897 2

With Chet Baker :

• Rassinfosse, Baker, Catherine (1983) Igloo 034CD
• There'll Never be Another You (1985) Timeless cd sjp437
• Chet' s Choice (1985) Criss Cross 1016 CD
• Strollin (1985) Enja 5005CD
• In Bologna (1985) Live Dreyfus 191 133-2

With Baruti Trio @ 4 :

• Ndugu Yangu (1996) Maîsha com 01

With Lou Bennett & Jack Sels:

• Jack Sels (1961) IBC 4C 054 97754

With Emmanuel Bex, Aldo Romano:

• Trio

With Carla Bley, Mike Mantler:

• More Movies (1979) Watt 10A/1

With Julien Clerc:

• Studio (2003) virgin 72435 843632 7

With Larry Coryell:

• TWIN HOUSE (1976) Atlantic 50 342
• BACK TOGETHER AGAIN (1977) WEA 50382
• SPLENDID (1978) Electra 52 986

With Laila Dalseth:

• A WOMAN'S INTUITION (1995) GMCD 87

With Freddie Deronde:

• SPONTANEOUS EFFORT (1990) Igloo IGL 081

With Klaus Doldinger, Buddy Guy, Les McCann, Johny Griffin...

• DOLDINGER JUBILEE (1975) Atlantic SD 18162

With Kenny Drew:

• MORNING (1975) Steeple Chase Scs 1048
• AND FAR AWAY (1983) Soul Note SN 1081

With European Jazz Ensemble :

• LIVE AT THE PHILARMONIC,KÖLN (1989) M.A Music A 800-2

With Focus:

• LIVE AT BBC (1976) Hux050
• CON PROBY (1978) Harvest ST-1721

With Richard Galliano:

• NEW MUSETTE (1991) Label Bleu LBLC 6547 HM 83

With Michaël Gibbs:

• THE ONLY CHROME WATERFALL ORCH. (1975) Bronze BR 201

With Dexter Gordon:

• SOMETHING DIFFERENT (1975) Steeple Chase Scs 1136

With Billy Higgins, NHO Pedersen

With Stéphane Grappelli:

• GRAPPELLI PONTY CATHERINE (1973) America 6139
• YOUNG DJANGO (1979) MPS 15510
• LIVE (1992) Birdology 517392- 2

With Peter Herbolzheimer:

• WIDE OPEN (1976) MPS 21-21948-8
• SCENES (1974) MPS - 21-22284-5

With Karin Krog:

• YOU MUST BELIEVE IN SPRING (1974) MR5

With Joachim Kühn:

• SPRINGFEVER (1976) Atlantic ATL 50 280 b
• HIP ELEGY (1976) Mps

With Rolf Kühn:

• TOTAL SPACE (1975) MPS 20 22625-5ATL 50 280 b

With John Lee, Gerry Brown:

• MANGO SUNRISE (1975) Blue Note BN-LA541-G

With Didier Lockwood, Christian Escoude:

• TRIO (1983) JMS 03

With Marcia Maria:

• PASSION (1995) Igloo IGL111

With Charlie Mariano, Jasper Van' t Hof:

• TRANSISTORY (1974) MPS 21 22099-0
• CASCADE (1974) Keytone KT 444 054
• 15 (1975) Horo
• THE DOOR IS OPEN (1976) Mps DC 228 754
• SLEEP MY LOVE (1979) Contemp LC 6055C
• OPERANOIA (1996) Intuition 3158
• THE GREAT CONCERT (2009) ENJ- 9532 2

With Maurane:

• MAURANE (1989)Polydor 939 159-2

With Charlie Mingus:

• THREE OR FOUR SHADE OF BLUES (1977) Atlantic SD 1700

With Marc Moulin:

• PLACEBO (1974) (Harvest C064-95378
• SAM' SUFFY (1975) CBS 80753
• TOP SECRET (2001) Blue Note 07243 5371292 0
• ENTERTAINMENT (2004) Blue Note 072430866472 21

With NRD:

• JAZZWORKSHOP (1977) NDR

With Erkan Ogur:

• FRETLESS (1993) EFA CD 00714-2

With Orion:

• ORION (1998) KELTIA MUSIC RSCD M 312

With Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen:

• JAY WALKING (1975) Steeple Chase SCCD 31041
• DOUBLE BASS (1976) Steeple Chase SCS 1055
• LIVE AT MONTMARTRE vol. 1 (1978) Steeple Chase SCCD 31083
• LIVE AT MONTMARTRE vol. 2 (1978) Steeple Chase SCCD 31093 (with Billy Hart)
• THE VIKING (1983) Pablo 2310 894
• SPANISH NIGHTS (1989) Enja ENJ-7023 2
• ART OF THE DUO (1991) Enja8016-2

With Ivan Paduart:

• WHITE NIGHTS (1995) A al 73061

With Jacques Pelzer:

• SALUTE TO THE BAND BOX (1993) Igloo 106

With Enrico Pieranunzi:

• ALONE TOGETHER (2000) Challenge records SACHR 75056

With Jean Luc Ponty:

• OPEN STRINGS (1971) MPS records 15.343

With Joan Reinders:

• MILLENIUM TRIANGULAR JAZZ ORCHESTRA (2000) A al 73199

With Aldo Romano:

• ALMA LATINA (1983) OwlnOWL 031

With Zbigniew Seifert:

• WE'LL REMEMBER ZBIGGY (1979) Mood 24 500

With Soledad:

• PASSAGE (2006) Virgin Classics

With Oliver Strauch:

• SHORT STORIES (2000) Mons MR 874-327

With Toots Thielemans:

• CHEZ TOOTS (1998) Private music 0100 82160 2

With Klaus Weiss:

• I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE (1971) BASF 44 21247-5/1-2
• SUNBIRDS (1971) BASF 20 21110-2

With Barney Wilen, Palle Danielsson:

• SANCTUARY (1991) IDA 029C
• LE GRAND CIRQUE (1993) Wan+Wan DK018 53029.2

With Diederik Wissels & David Linx:

• IF ONE MORE DAY (1993) Les Disques du Crépuscule TWI 970-2

With Robert Wyatt:

• SHLEEP (1997) HANNIBAL HNCD 1418

External links

• Official website