Philip Catherine

Philip Catherine
Background information
Born 27 October 1942 (1942-10-27) (age 69)
London, England
United Kingdom
Genres Jazz
Occupations Musician, songwriter
Instruments Guitar
Years active 1960s - current
Labels Warner Bros. Records
Associated acts Focus
Website Philip Catherine.com

Philip Catherine (born 27 October 1942) is a Belgian jazz guitarist.

Contents

Biography

He was born in London from an English mother and Belgian father.

He began playing in the 1960's with Lou Bennett, Dexter Gordon and Stéphane Grappelli. He was then a member of the Jean-Luc Ponty quintet, right after he recorded his first album, Stream, produced by Frenchman Sacha Distel. The album was recorded in 1970, in Paris, and released in 1971 on Warner Bros. Records. A year later, he met John Scofield, Ran Blake, George Benson and more musicians in Boston.

In 1977 Catherine replaced Jan Akkerman in the Dutch rock group Focus and appeared on one album with the band, Focus con Proby which also featured American singer P. J. Proby. In the '80's he played extensively with the Chet Baker Trio. He is featured on several of Chet's albums. He also played with Charlie Mingus who named Catherine Young Django.

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

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

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 (in 1995) as best French-speaking artist.

Discography

With Other Artists

With Aziza Mustafa Zadeh:

With Chet Baker :

With Baruti Trio @ 4 :

With Lou Bennett & Jack Sels:

With Emmanuel Bex, Aldo Romano:

With Carla Bley, Mike Mantler:

With Julien Clerc:

With Larry Coryell:

With Laila Dalseth:

With Freddie Deronde:

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

With Kenny Drew:

With European Jazz Ensemble :

With Focus:

With Richard Galliano:

With Michaël Gibbs:

With Dexter Gordon:

With Billy Higgins, NHO Pedersen

With Stéphane Grappelli:

With Peter Herbolzheimer:

With Karin Krog:

With Joachim Kühn:

With Rolf Kühn:

With John Lee, Gerry Brown:

With Didier Lockwood, Christian Escoude:

With Marcia Maria:

With Charlie Mariano, Jasper Van' t Hof:

With Maurane:

With Charlie Mingus:

With Marc Moulin:

With NRD:

With Erkan Ogur:

With Orion:

With Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen:

With Ivan Paduart:

With Jacques Pelzer:

With Enrico Pieranunzi:

With Jean Luc Ponty:

With Joan Reinders:

With Aldo Romano:

With Zbigniew Seifert:

With Soledad:

With Oliver Strauch:

With Toots Thielemans:

With Klaus Weiss:

With Barney Wilen, Palle Danielsson:

With Diederik Wissels & David Linx:

With Robert Wyatt:

References

  1. ^ "Guitar groove Review at Allaboutjazz". Allaboutjazz.com, published March 1, 1999. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=3420. Retrieved 2010-10-11. 
  2. ^ "Guitars Two Review at Allaboutjazz". Allaboutjazz.com, published October 5, 2008. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=30719. Retrieved 2010-10-11. 

External links

Focus
Thijs van Leer · Niels van der Steenhoven · Bobby Jacobs · Pierre van der Linden
Jan Akkerman · Jan Dumée · Martin Dresden · Cyril Havermans · Bert Ruiter · Hans Cleuver · Colin Allen · Bert Smaak · Philip Catherine · David Kemper · Eef Albers
Studio albums
Live albums
At the Rainbow · Live in America · Live at the BBC 1976
Compilation albums
The Best of Focus: Hocus Pocus
Singles
"Hocus Pocus" · "Sylvia" · "House of the King" · "Tommy" · "Harem Scarem" · "Mother Focus" · "P's March" · "Russian Roulette"
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