Jean-Salim Charvet started music in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon earlier than successful a scholarship to Berklee Faculty of Music in Boston. At the moment, many standard American teams each within the studio and on the stage are after him. He’s on tour in Europe this summer time. Image.
In New York, each jazz rating has the identify of a really younger saxophonist from Lyon. We are able to now not depend his collaborations. Graduate of Berklee Faculty of Music in Boston, Salim Charvet is crossing the Atlantic once more this summer time and can be touring Europe with the favored American group, “Dana and Alden”. The Dthe brothers selected him on sax.
First bought out live performance in New York for Jean-Salim Charvet with Dana and Alden
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© JS Charvet
As Ciara Moser. Put headphones in your ears, kind “Blind So What” on YouTube, and let your self be carried away by the album of this blind musician, additionally chosen by Salim Charvet.
An interview with a rising star of the New York scene!
You might be solely 22 years outdated, and you have already got an incredible and promising profession. You play within the hottest jazz golf equipment in New York, like Ornithology in Brooklyn, standard musicians ask you, what’s your secret ?
I used to be very lucky to obtain a scholarship to Berklee Faculty of Music in Boston. It is likely one of the largest personal music colleges in the USA. My 4 yr coaching was totally funded and this opened up an enormous handle e book for me.
Getting such a scholarship isn’t just luck.
I used to be fortunate to have, on the jury, Jim Odgren, a sax instructor who performed with Gary Burton. And he favored my vibe. I used to be not taken to the Conservatoire Nationwide de Paris. Berklee, it was wonderful to be caught. They should have seen a chameleon facet in me, this factor that permits me to have enjoyable at present, even to the purpose of soul zouk! However the first few months at Berklee had been troublesome. I used to be requested to play all types. I did not prefer it. However when you could have a full Berklee scholarship, you must work.
If you had been very younger, you had been listening to the American saxophonist, James Carter. On the Lyon regional conservatory, you studied jazz with Manu Filliat, and also you had been a part of the Huge Band Junior… if “luck is a part of expertise”, so is figure, proper?
The saxophone has been part of my life for a very long time! I began on the Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon conservatory with Pascale Amiot. She was the one who actually launched me to jazz, giving me a stable basis… then at 12, I joined the Lyon Regional Conservatory and at 13, I joined the Huge Band of Youth on the Conservatory. This coaching created by trumpeter and instructor Thierry Seneau revealed a number of skills.
At Jazz à Vienne in 2017, I performed with this nice younger band with Jon Boutellier, the saxophonist son of the founding father of Jazz à Vienne. Jon can also be based mostly in New York. I’m additionally his official substitute, when he isn’t there, at music faculty at Queen’s.
In Huge Band Junior, he was 13 years outdated, he was at all times within the lead, together with his baritone saxophone. He performed me Duke Ellington’s theme, “In a sentimental temper”. It was unbelievable. I instantly heard the id of the sound. It already had components of language.
Thierry Seneau,trumpeter, founding father of the CRR de Lyon Huge Band Junior
What are your plans at present?
I’ve a number of totally different musical initiatives. The most important one is a gaggle referred to as “Dana and Alden”, two brothers with whom I play and who’ve change into crucial in the USA. The concert events are bought out. They did the primary album and I will be enjoying on the second which comes out in June. We’re going to play in Europe this summer time, on August 23, we can be in Good, earlier than the American tour.
Alden was like me at Berklee. We met on the primary day. We did not know anybody. He is an efficient drummer. Throughout covid, he grew to become well-known for his jokes. He was then very expert. He changed the jokes with music. Now we share an house in Brooklyn.
At Berklee, I additionally met Ciara Moser, a bassist from Austria. It is extra jazz fusion. We have now an album referred to as “Blind so what”. Which suggests “Blind, so what” as a result of Ciara is certainly blind from start. All of the items are on this matter. We have now completed a number of journeys, together with a one month journey solely in Austria final yr.
One other album, extra conventional jazz, is the “Nikos Chatzitsakos Tiny Huge Band 2”, additionally accessible on all platforms. Aside from a giant band, it’s a nonet, with feminine singers. And truly, it is cool, as a result of the most effective musicians of my age are in New York.
And no extra private undertaking?
I’m in the midst of mixing my very own undertaking. A barely jazzier ECM fourth by Swedish pianist Ebba Dankel. I additionally play with guitarist Ely Perlman who is legendary for being Christian McBride’s new guitarist.
At the moment, you graduated from Berklee, why did you select to reside in New York?
If you end Berklee, the dilemma is at all times Los Angeles or New York. In LA, you realize you are not going to play music for productions anymore, however in NY, it is reside that is ready for you. I selected to reside. NY is the town the place you could have essentially the most locations to play. This metropolis is loopy, this power!
2024-06-01 09:30:00
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