Biography

Serge Forte, Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, born 1st May 1960 in Tunis.
A brand New album is available now : "Oscar, a tribute" , hommage to the Great Oscar Peterson , recorded live in Paris.

At 18 years old, studying musicology in Lyon, he discovers Jazz and listen to all masters with avidity. He teached classical piano to pay his studies, playing with local groups also.
Professor at CIM, Paris, from 1988 to 1990, Serge Forte recorded VANA latin jazz compositions, with in bonus a duo with Michel Petrucciani, followed by many concerts as 1st parts of Miles Davis in Poitiers, Stan Getz and Michel Petrucciani at Festival Heineken, etc.
In 1992, Serge recorded the future LA VIE EN BLEU, on French Songs , and then MOSAQUE in 1994.
Working on the play of Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Phineas Newborn, Lennie Tristano, taking some distance from his first latin mood and going deeper in his technique and harmonic play.
In 2003 comes the album, JAZZIN CHOPIN.Chopins melodies are treated here like Jazz Standards. The result perfectly illustrate the lack of border between Classical and Jazz.
THANKS FOR ALL, with percussionist Mino Cinelu, recorded in New York in 1997, is a vibrant tribute to all the musicians who influenced him. THe cd has been released in january 2004 and is nominated by the Fnac for the Victoires du Jazz 2005.

Serge Forte is also very proud to be present with his trio on the only french recording from the great SHEILA JORDAN, BELIEVE IN JAZZ whose title summarizes perfectly the history of one of the greatest Jazz singers in activity.

The album La BOHEME presents a very personal vision of the inheritance of French Song, in the line of LA VIE EN BLEU, but with 3 sung titles, and the exceptional participation of Alain Chamfort.
His students enjoy today his great talent of pedagog and his help to prepare competition or concerts.