Artist
Serge Forté
Biography
Serge Forté is a pianist, composer and arranger born in Tunis in 1960. He discovered jazz while studying musicology in Lyon and began combining teaching with performing in local groups. From 1988 to 1990 he taught at the CIM jazz school in Paris.
His musical projects have included the Latin jazz duo Vaïna, work with Michel Petrucciani, and concerts opening for Miles Davis and Stan Getz. His recordings include La Vie en Bleu, which explores French songs, Mosaïque and Jazz’in Chopin. His pianistic influences include Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Phineas Newborn and Lennie Tristano.
Forté plays piano in the trio with Davide Petrocca and Andrea Marcelli on Caravan, recorded in Mönchengladbach in February 2007 and included in Marcelli’s The Invisible Child.