Philippe Caillat was born in Paris. He derived his special european brand of Fusion from his influences of late 50s, 60s Rock and Blues and Jazz, influences of the polyethnic surrounding of his youth and his solid classical-academical education.He did not only show this with his own albums in the last two decades, - one of them won " Jazz record of the year " in Scandinavia, but also in numerous concerts and festival appearences as sideman and leader. At the same time he is an international requested teacher of masterclasses all over the world, at different academies, f. e. Ars Nova inParis, CMA in Valenciennes, the Jazzakademie in Dortmund and since 1988 at the MGI in Cologne( the german equivalent to the GIT ).He remains at the pulse of time not only for his students. That is clearly shown in his works. Even in his early albums he used the possibilities of computer supported sound design for guitar. Whether he is playing heavily distorted or clean, acoustic or midi he puts his special and intense guitaristic finger print on his very unique and european compositions. That makes his music easily recognizeable.He is supported on his albums by a lot of other well known musicians like : Charlie Mariano, Nicolas Fiszman, Tony Lakatos, Doudou Gouirand, Rémy Chaudagne, Alex Vesper, Fritz Krisse, Jasper van..t Hof a.o.
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