♫ Nouvel album "Ballads" en duo avec Alain Jean Marie 🎹
Diego Imbert started music with the violin at the age of six, then with the electric bass at 15. It was only in 1995 that he took up the double bass (Conservatory in Paris and courses with Jean François Jenny Clark, Hein Van de Geyn and Eddie Gomez). He has performed in groups such as Bireli Lagrène's "Gipsy Project" for almost twenty years, with the trio of Sylvain Beuf with Franck Agulhon (since 2000) which became a sextet in 2009. He set up his own group in 2008 with David El-Malek, Alex Tassel and Franck Agulhon and recorded three discs as leader-composer-double bassist with this Quartet, “A l'ombre du saule bleue” (2009) and “Next Move” (2011) and “Colors” (2015) on the Such Prod / Harmonia Mundi label. Also recorded as a duo with guitarist Michel Perez in 2013 the album “Double Entente” (Such Prod/Harmonia Mundi} which became “Triple Entente” (Trebim Music/L'Autre Distribution) with the arrival of Sylvain Beuf in 2016. Recorded “Tribute to Charlie Haden” (Trebim Music/L’Autre Distribution) in 2017 with Enrico Pieranunzi, André Ceccarelli and a string/wood ensemble orchestrated and conducted by Pierre Bertrand, nominated for “Victoires du jazz” in 2018. Participates in the project “Le coq et la pendule, homage to Claude Nougaro” followed by “ANOUsGARO” by André Ceccarelli with Pierre-Alain Goualch and David Linx which became “7000 Miles” in 2018. A new recording is planned for 2024 of this project in homage to Claude Nougaro, "Le Jazz et la Java" (Trebim Music/L'Autre Distribution 2024). He is also part of the Daniel Mille Quintet in tribute to Astor Piazzolla extended by Jean-Louis Trintignant for his last show (Trintignant-Mille- Piazzolla/Sony Music). In 2018, he composed “Le vent nuit”, a suite of symphonic poems for an ensemble of twenty musicians (strings and woodwinds) inspired by the poems of Guillaume Apollinaire.Recorded with Enrico Pieranunzi's trio with André Ceccarelli several projects around jazz and classical music ("Ménage à trois" in 2016 - and "Monsieur Claude" in 2018 on the Bonsaï Music label). His 2019 project “Urban” is an electric septet in which Diego took over the electric bass. In 2020, his duo project with pianist Alain Jean-Marie, which is a tribute to pianist Bill Evans, received the “2020 French Record Prize” by the Jazz Academy. At the end of 2021, he carried out a project with André Ceccarelli and Pierre-Alain Goualch around G. Gershwin's opera “Porgy & Bess”. Also part of Richard Galliano's new trio since the beginning of 2022 with a CD released in October 2022. Release at the end of 2023 of the disc of his Quartet "Le Temps Suspendu". (Trebim Music/L'Autre Distribution 2023)
We were also able to listen to it with musicians such as: Archie Shepp, Didier Lockwood, Laurent de Wilde, Aldo Romano, Eric Legnini, Philipp Catherine, Antonio Farao, Jean-Michel Pilc, Stéphane Huchard, Franck Avitabile, Pierre de Bethmann, Guillaume de Chassy, Pierrick Pedron, Rosario Giuliani, Alain Jean-Marie, Sylvain Luc, Flavio Boltro, Michael Felberbaum, Michel Perez, Olivier Ker Ourio, Baptiste Trotignon, Tigran Hamasyan, Ari Hoenig, Julien Charlet, Sara Lazarus, Elisabeth Kontomanou, Anne Ducros….
Professor of Artistic Education (PEA) Jazz at the Troyes Conservatory, he has taught occasionally for many years in several schools (Centre des Musiques Didier Lockwood, Music Academy International, IMFP...) and has developed educational projects with the Conservatory of Chaumont, Neufchâteau and has given Masterclasses in the conservatories of Strasbourg, Nice, Douardenez, and organizes and coordinates the Double Bass Jazz and Classical course at Chaumont.
More information on www/diegoimbert.com
