L'Ambassade des USA offre au Festival de Jazz de Saint- Louis :
Freddie Bryant et
le Kaleidoscope Trio
Freddie Bryant is "a brilliant young guitarist and composer,” wrote the great guitarist Kenny Burrell. He is a versatile musician skilled both in jazz and classical music, having received his Master’s degree in classical guitar from the Yale School of Music. He currently teaches at Williams College in Massachusetts in the Africana and Music departments and the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen, Holland. Currently in demand in the New York jazz scene, he works with Ben Riley’s Monk Legacy Septet, the Mingus Orchestra, and his own groups, Trio del Sol and Kaleidoscope. He has recorded and performed with Tom Harrell, D.D. Jackson, Steve Wilson, Kevin Hays and many others. He is also on the first call list of many singers and Brazilian musicians because of his sensitive accompanying and his knowledge of Brazilian guitar, and has toured with the pianist/singer Eliane Elias. His most recent CD is with the group Trio del Sol (Twinz Records). He has four others as a leader: Brazilian Rosewood, Boogaloo Brasileiro, Live at Smoke (Fresh Sound Records) and Take Your Dance into Battle (Jazz City Spirit). Over the years he has toured in 42 countries and has had the opportunity of collaborating with musicians from a wide variety of backgrounds including Salif Keita (known as the King of Afro-Pop), the Indian sitarist Shubhendra Rao, the Kenyan singers Achien’g Abura and Suzanna Owiyo, the Taarab master oud player Zein L’abdin, traditional groups in Saudi Arabia and the renowned Israeli klezmer clarinetist, Giora Feidman. In 2006 he performed in Cuba as a solo artist and spent a week of musical exchange with Cuban musicians. www.freddiebryant.com
