Gastine Brothers Feat. Boulou Ferré

Every Tuesday from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., Chez Georges welcomes the Alex Swing Events collective, which offers a varied and quality program, following a repertoire of swing / gypsy jazz, the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, and many others!

Chez Georges is a very pleasant wine bar on rue des canettes, with a magnificent vaulted cellar in the basement, transformed on Tuesday into a gypsy jazz club!

Boulou Ferré is the son of guitarist Pierre “Matelo” FERRET and the brother of Elios FERRET, also a guitarist. With his brother, he spells his name without the final t.
He learned guitar with his father who had played with the “Quintette du Hot Club de France” for ten years. He studied classical music at the Conservatoire National de Paris and made his first recordings at the age of eleven. In 1964, he played alongside saxophonist John COLTRANE at the “Festival d’Antibes-Juan les Pins”. He also plays with saxophonist Dexter GORDON, trumpeter “Dizzy” GILLESPIE, violinist Stéphane GRAPPELLI, saxophonists Warne MARSH and Barney WILEN and others. He studied harmony and composition with the composer Olivier MESSIAEN and wrote film music for television. In 1978 he formed a duo with his brother Elios and, in 1979, recorded a series of several albums. In the following years, he toured extensively in Europe, America and India. In 1985 he recorded with guitarist Babik REINHARDT, Django's son, in the trio led by Christian ESCOUDÉ.

This evening he is the guest of another brotherhood who today keeps the legacy of Django Reinhardt alive, David Gastine the singer-guitarist and Sébastien Gastine known as Raoul, on double bass.