Jazz Concerts with Raphaël Imbert
When: Friday, October 19, 2012 from 5:00 p.m to 10:00 p.m.
France-Atlanta 2012 proudly presented French saxophonist, jazz composer, and 2003 Villa Medicis Off-Site Award winner Raphaël Imbert who has been dazzling audiences worldwide with his soulful style and experimental, in-depth research on the relationship between the spiritual element in Jazz and the spoken word.
Friday Jazz
Where: The High Museum of Art, Robinson Atrium, 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. , Atlanta 30309
When: Friday, October 19, 2012 from 5:00 p.m to 10:00 p.m.
Along with Atlanta musicians Henry Conerway and Chris Riggenbach and French singer Marion Rampal, Raphael presented a France-Atlanta pre-show at Friday Jazz, which offers an evening of art & music every third Friday of the month with extended hours with full gallery access including special exhibitions. Friday Jazz is free with Museum admission and free to members.
Jazz at the First Congregational Church
Where: First Congregational Church (105 Courtland Street, Atlanta 30303)
When: Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
In partnership with Atlanta’s historical First Congregational Church, which seeps in a deep musical tradition, Raphaël Imbert shared the stage with local saxophonist and Emory University music professor, the Reverend Dr. Dwight D. Andrews in a musical celebration of the South… jazz style.
Biography:
Born on June 2 1974, Raphaël Imbert grew up in an artistic background. At the age of 15, he discovered the saxophone. It was love at first sight. Self-taught, he registered for the CNR jazz class in Marseilles, taught by Philippe Renault, and met the regional musicians he plays with the most regularly (Emile Atsas, Jean-Luc Difraja, Vincent Lafont, Pierre Fenichel…).
With Jean-Jacques Elangué, he wins the first prize at the Conservatoire (music school), and starts two bands, the Hemle Orchestra and the Atsas Imbert Consort, with which he will play in many festivals ( Vienne, Nice, Fiesta des Suds in Marseilles, Théâtre des Salins…). Having rubbed shoulders with these musicians, he enjoys composing in eclectic musical situations. More personally, he develops his own vision of music and jazz, linked to the specific spitituality of jazz creation.
To this end, he creates the “Nine Spirits” to play the sacred musics by Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others, and to realize shows inspired by evocative texts, using narration as a musical element per se (they will play to Théodore Monod, Amidou Hampatê Bâ, Martin Luther King…). On the other hand, he develops a project of study of the sacred in jazz, and becomes laureate of the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs. In 2002, he created the collective L’Enclencheur (in motion), with other musicians, sociologists, journalists, music lovers, to defend a project of reflexion integrating jazz playing into a wider vision of society. He taught at the Conservatoire in Marseilles, and now teaches at Ecole Départemental de Musique des Alpes de Haute Provence.
He has been a member of the board of the "Orchestre National de jazz" since september 2004 and, in June 2005, he won the 28th National Jazz Contest of La Défense in Paris.
Raphaël Imbert composes also for movies and television, for Philippe Carrese’s and Isabelle Boni-Claverie’s projects. He records 5 CDs for Zig Zag Territoires Label, including “Bach Coltrane”, an original work about improvisation, creative music and classical expression (14000 copies sold) and two albums with American musicians Gerald Cleaver and Joe Martin.
Top page photo credit: Henri Selmer
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