31/03/2015, 21:30

LiquID JAZZ HOUSEBAND 
 
Featuring CLAUDE PAULY
 
This week is time for our monthly rendez-vous with our Jazz Houseband. This time our talented trio has invited Claude Pauly jazz fusion guitar virtuoso. For sure a great night garanteed! 

Born in Luxembourg , Claude eventually found his way to the guitar via various other school music instruments at the age of 16. Soon the electric guitar became his main focus, and the initial self taught years lead him through various blues, rock and experimental bands.

Having been exposed to and passionately loving all kinds of music, from Louis Armstrong to Pink Floyd and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, his focus eventually shifted to mostly guitar based jazz fusion, and his emerging urge to understand and master jazz fusion music and guitar playing lead him to enrol in various technique and theory courses at the London Guitar Institute, mainly studying with jazz fusion virtuoso Shaun Baxter. London was to later become his home for a few years, and those years’ input, merged with a large array of musical and guitaristic influences, were to forge a large part of his jazz- fusion playing and writing style, always trying to merge the energy and emotional intensity of electric/rock guitar playing with the vast array of harmonic colours, tensions and musical shapes of the jazz vocabulary.

Claude continuously refined his compositional and arranging skills, and also started to write and produce radio and TV jingles for various Luxembourg based stations. Back in Luxembourg, he started teaching and doing session work for various rock, pop and zouk artists, continued the jingle work and wrote music for theatre and modern dance plays. He intensely gigged with the fusion band Garlicks, who released the critically acclaimed CD “Mutant Standards”, and later on  released “Jazzperiments”, an acid-jazzy/ambient record less focused on guitar. He performed with and wrote for in the acoustic Spire Trio as well as numerous local and international fusion and jazz formations. Together with some of Luxembourg’s finest jazz musicians, Claude then got involved in the highly successful “India meets Europe” project, featuring Benares sitar master Deobrat Mishra, arranging and composing some of the concert material featuring a blend of traditional Indian music and jazz fusion.

MIND MEETS MATTER is a long dreamt of project that was finally realized in California , recording original compositions with bassist Kai Eckhardt (John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham,Garaj Mahal) , drummer Alan Hertz (Scott Henderson, Garaj Mahal) and keyboardist Frank Martin ( John McLaughlin, Sting, Herbie Hancock, Richard Bona).

Claude is currently involved in film scoring as well as working on and recording material for his new CD  with his Mindmatter 4tet, featuring the Dutch jazz musicians Seb Cornelissen (dr), Frans Vollink (b) and Coen Molenaar ( p).