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Sal La Rocca
DOUBLE BASS PLAYER / COMPOSER
Sal La Rocca – Initially briefly interested in guitar rock, he discovered the jazz genre in the early 1980s. Sal traded the guitar for the bass and taught himself the jazz idiom, inspired by the model of Paul Chambers. La Rocca tirelessly built on his abilities as a musician, and it did not take long before he was noticed playing alongside Toots THIELEMANS, Phil... read more
- SatMay 2310:00pm
JAZZ STATION (BE) - Phil Abraham 4tet
Belgium, Brussels, chée de Louvain, 193a, 1210Phil Abraham 4tet - "Roots and Wings" Cd Release - 10pm
Phil Abraham - trombone / Fabien Degryse - guitare / Sal La Rocca - contrebasse / Andrea Arpetti - batterie
After studying the classical piano, the guitar and harmony, Phil Abraham was seduced by jazz and the trombone, on which he is self-taught. His stylistic evolution is parallel to the history of jazz, and even if he is a modern soloist today, he has worked with a wide variety of great musicians.
Phil has taken part in more than sixty albums, eleven with his own group, with which he won many prizes. He has often been invited in big bands as a soloist. He took part in many recordings and concerts of the big band of the Belgian Radio (BRT). Phil Abraham also devotes his career to teaching, training courses and master-classes. He was a teacher of vocal improvisation in Antwerp and Brussels. He is now a jazz and trombone teacher at the Brussels Royal Conservatory and at the National Conservatory in Douai (France).
Awards :
1988 : first Prize at the International Jazz Contest in Sorgues (France)
1989 : Prize of the Best Soloist at the "Concours de la Défense" in Paris
1998 : chosen as the best Belgian and European trombone player by the listeners of the Belgian radio and the Belgian critics
1999 : elected once again the best Belgian and European jazz trombonist
2000 : second Prize at the International Contest of jazz soloists in Monaco.All Ages
