Jazz Articles about Philip Catherine

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Larry Coryell & Philip Catherine: The Last Call

by Phillip Woolever
August 1, 2021

ACT Music released this exceptional concert recording four years to the day after the February 19, 2017 death of 73-year old master guitarist Larry Coryell. The album documents a sensational set Coryell played with the equally skillful Belgian guitarist Philip Catherine at the Berlin Philharmonic. The event was an unplanned but fitting conclusion to their series of collaborations that began at the same location some forty-five years before. The sound dynamics and song selections create a vivid testimonial of musical ...

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Martin Wind, Philip Catherine, Ack Van Rooyen: White Noise

by Angelo Leonardi
April 21, 2021

«Il silenzio è diventato sempre più un lusso—dice Martin Wind—con White Noise ho voluto creare un polo acustico opposto. Una sorta di oasi sonora in cui il pubblico può rilassarsi e godere la musica fino alla sua massima espressione». Per ottenere questo il contrabbassista tedesco—a New York da 25 anni—ha voluto accanto a sé due magistrali jazzmen europei dalla proverbiale impronta melodica: il chitarrista Philip Catherine e il trombettista Ack Van Rooyen. Due artisti d'età avanzata—il primo ...

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Philip Catherine: Concert in Capbreton

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 28, 2010

Sensibilità, raffinatezza, discrezione sono doti che non hanno mai difettato a Enrico Pieranunzi e Philip Catherine, se poi aggiungiamo due musicisti come Hein Van de Geyn e Joe LaBarbera (ultimo batterista di Bill Evans) i giochi sono fatti. Registrato nel 2007 a Capbreton durante il festival dedicato al contrabbasso, questo live basato interamente su standards (tranne la brevissima “Change") è la testimonianza di come musicisti dalla forte personalità trasformino l'insidioso terreno degli standard in un laboratorio live sull'arte dell'improvvisazione lavorando ...

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Philip Catherine: Guitars Two

by John Kelman
October 5, 2008

Sometimes it's not a good thing to get branded too early in your career. Called "the young Django" by Charles Mingus and operating in the same fusion sphere as John McLaughlin and Larry Coryell, 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 ...

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Philip Catherine: Guitars Two

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 19, 2008

Dopo oltre vent’anni il chitarrista belga Philip Catherine, nato a Londra nel 1942, torna alla formula del disco in perfetta solitudine. Nel 1975 l’album solo che realizzò per la Atlantic era intitolato Guitars e quindi in questo caso, a rimarcare una sorta di continuità con quel bel progetto, si è deciso semplicemente di aggiungere il suffisso ‘Two’ a quel titolo già sintetico. In realtà, Catherine non è mai solo in questi tredici brani. Infatti con la tecnica della sovraincisione si ...

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Philip Catherine/Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Meeting Colours

by Jack Bowers
July 6, 2005

I've sometimes wondered why guitarists don't record more often with big bands. Wes Montgomery and Joe Pass, among others, proved that such a marriage can work quite well, as does Belgian maestro Philip Catherine--who reminds me of Pass--on this impressive new album with the world-class Brussels Jazz Orchestra.

Catherine wrote all but one tune, Ellington's “In a Sentimental Mood, and the marvelous trumpeter Bert Joris arranged everything, sculpting graceful settings for Catherine's mellow guitar that provide ample counterpoint and color ...

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Philip Catherine: Summer Night

by C. Michael Bailey
October 10, 2002

Blistering...

Philip Catherine has a guitar tone like that of the shine of hot mercury pouring from a stainless steel cylinder. His latest recording, Summer Night is replete with such a tone on both fusionesque pieces and more mainstream standard fare. Catherine deftly employs electric effects, always tastefully, to make his playing more fluid. “Tiger Groove" so totally rocks with Bert Jorvis’ brass that it grabs the listeners’ attention and sucks him or her into this wonderful melee of rhythm ...