The great Norwegian saxophonist Tore Brunborg plays gorgeously on the new Manu Katché album and he will join Manu for a rare New York City concert on July 1st!
Tore Brunborg is a Norwegian Jazz musician and composer and one of the most sought after sax players in Scandinavia.
Emmanuel Manu Katche was born in St Maur des Fossés, near Paris, in 1958, though his family roots go back to Africa's Ivory Coast. By the mid-1980s his floating beat had become one of the signature sounds of pop and rock, sup-porting singers from Joni Mitchell to Peter Gabriel.
Manu Katche studied piano from the age of 5, switching to drums at 14 and studying classical percussion at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris. He has often said that his drum style is essentially an amalgam of African rhythm concepts and classical drumming, illuminated by the in-the-moment interaction of jazz. “When I play jazz I get called a 'rock drummer'. When I do rock projects, critics write about 'the jazz drummer Manu Katché'. But I'm just being myself, trying to be innovative as the music is played, and I guess that is more of a 'jazz' attitude.”
Invited to participate in ECM's 20th anniversary concerts in Paris in 1989, Katché played first in a trio with the world famous Norwegian musician Jan Garbarek and Indian violinist Shankar in a concert at La Cigale. The encounter was to lead to Katché's membership of the Garbarek Group and his presence on a series of albums: I Took Up The Runes, Ragas and Sagas, Twelve Moons, Visible World, In Praise Of Dreams. Manu recently rejoined Jan's band for several months of live work with concerts which continue until the end of 2007 in Germany, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Turkey, Portugal and Switzerland.
Doors open @ 6PM
Tickets $20.00 in advance,
$25.00 day of show.