Alex Bellegarde Quartet

Alex Bellegarde Quartet

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About Alex Bellegarde Quartet

Montreal bassist Alex Bellegarde, finds full expression through his involvement in wide range of projects. A prominent artist on the Quebec scene, bassist Alex Bellegarde is a versatile and energetic player with a broad imagination. Constantly finding new types of projects with which to extend his jazz vocabulary, he collaborates with a wide range of musicians, poets, actors and visual artists and creates music drawn from a wealth of sources. His compositions, along with a great performance by his quartet, merited the coveted General Motors Grand Jazz Award at the 2005 Montreal Jazz Festival. A busy player on Montreal’s effervescent jazz scene, he heads a weekly jam session and plays Latin bass with many Montreal-based Cuban musicians: Jesus 'El Nino' Perez, Yoël Diaz Y Su Team Timba and Asere, as well as legendary guest artists on visit from Cuba and the US, such as vocalist Chiquitin and percussionist Candido Camero. He has also composed music for several Montreal theatre productions: Cornemuse-Théàtre d'Aujourd’hui (in collaboration with Philippe Brault), Emmanuelle Blanche-Centre d’Essai, La Tête Dans Les Nuages-Salle Fred Barry and more recently Hamlet Machine-Place des Arts. Multidisciplinary events include Jazz & Poetry, Espace Olibrius (multimedia), Émergence Énergie, Live Painting & Music, to name just a few. Throughout high school in Quebec's Eastern townships Alex played with the award winning Ensemble Davignon and Stage Band. Moving to Montreal in 97, he explored the local jazz scene and while playing the ‹jams› met up with bassist Skip Bey. Inspired and encouraged by Skip, he has gone on to play with bands such as Ohmz, MRJ and the Vic Vogel Octet and in many special events such as the Musicians' Solidarity Show, Évidemment Jazz and L'Off Festival de Jazz all highly representative of the Montreal jazz scene. source: http://www.alexbellegarde.com/biography.htm http://www.myspace.com/alexbellegarde

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