Philippe Soirat est né en 1961 à Menton. Après des débuts en autodidacte, il étudie au conservatoire de Monaco et au Centre musical contemporain de Nice. Il s’installe à Paris en 1986 et fréquente l’école informelle du jazz faite de rencontres et d’expériences entre musiciens. Très vite les concerts se multiplient et il accompagne la plupart des musiciens de la scène française et internationale tels que Barney Wilen, Ricky Ford, Lee Konitz, Yannick Rieu, Lionel et Stéphane Belmondo, Lou Donaldson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Brown, Laurent de Wilde, Johnny Griffin, Mark Turner, Phil Woods ou Steve Grossman.
Philippe Soirat is born in Menton in 1961. After self-taught beginnings he studied at both the Monaco Conservatory and the Nice Contemporary Music Center. He settled in Paris in 1986 and moved in the informal jazz school made up of meeting and experiments among musicians. Concerts came thick and fast and he has accompanied most musicians on the french and international jazz scene, such as Barney Wilen, Ricky Ford, Lee Konitz, Yannick Rieu, Lionel et Stéphane Belmondo, Lou Donaldson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ray Brown, Laurent DeWilde, Jonny Griffin, Mark Turner, Phil Woods, Steve Grossman...
Sa discographie compte à ce jour plus de quatre-vingts albums enregistrés avec Barry Harris, Yannick Rieu, Gordon Beck, Lenny Popkin, Ricky Ford, Les frères Belmondo, Laurent Coq, Ted Curson, Christophe Dal Sasso, Georges Cables, Laurent Fickelson, François Théberge, Barney Wilen, Samy Thiébault, Hervé Sellin, Jacques Vidal etc... ainsi que trois disques de son quartet.
Formations et tournées :
Laurence Allison – Ronald Baker - Jean Bardy - Carlos Barretto (Portugal, Espagne, Açores) - Gordon Beck (Irlande, Angleterre) - Belmondo Quintet et "Hymne au soleil" (Belgique, Sénégal,
Mauritanie, Burkina Faso, Bénin, Togo, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée Bissau, Guinée, Niger, Cap-Vert) - Jean-Christophe Beney – Emmanuel Borghi - Yves Brouqui - Cyrille Bugnon (Suisse, Belgique,
Dubaï) - Sonia Cat-Berro - Ray Brown (Israël) - Laurent Coq - Laurent Courthaliac - Christophe Dal Sasso - Nicolas Dary - Armen Donelian (Turquie) - Laurent Fickelson - Ricky Ford (Espagne) -
Michèle Hendricks (Serbie, Montenegro) – Gael Horellou - Ramona Orvath (Roumanie) - Alain Jean-Marie (Uruguay, Argentine, Tahiti) - Franck Lacy - Sara Lazarus – Rick Margitza (Italie, Belgique) -
Hiroshi Murayama (Japon) - Gilles Naturel - The Olding/Kannaste Four (Suède, Finlande) - Pierrick Pédron (Maroc) - Lenny Popkin (Autriche) - Yannick Rieu (Canada, Corée du Sud, Chine) - Hervé
Sellin (Suisse, Espagne) - Carl Schlosser - Jef Sicard (Lituanie) – Samy Thiébault (Maroc, Venezuela, Chili, Argentine, Uruguay, Algérie, Tanzanie, Congo, Italie, Mexique, Colombie, Vietnam,
Indonésie, Cote d'Ivoire, Sénégal, Mauritanie, Niger, Gabon, Cameroun, USA, Canada) - François Théberge - Jacques Vidal - Voice Messengers – Laurent de Wilde (Vietnam, Thaïlande, Malaisie,
Singapour, Brunei, Australie, Nouvelle-Zélande, Tunisie, Pologne, Serbie, Finlande, Jersey, Russie, Bahrein, Emirats Arabes Unis, Arabie Saoudite) - Barney Wilen.
Il a aussi accompagné :
Toshiko Akiyoshi, Harry Allen, Frank Amsallem, Georges
Arvanitas, Frank Avitabile, Dmitry Baevsky, Jérôme Barde, Eric Barret, Bruce Barth, Sylvain Beuf, Warren Bernhardt, Emmanuel Bex, Walter Bishop Jr, Pierre Boussaguet, Albert Bover, Dee Dee
Bridgewater, George Cables, Ed Cherry, Joe Cohn, Stéphanie Crawford, Ted Curson, Eddie Daniels, Lea Delaria, Lou Donaldson, Bob Dorought, Kenny Drew Jr., Teddy Edwards, David El-Malek, Glenn
Ferris, Herb Geller, Jon Gordon, Jimmy Gourley, Michel Graillier, Luigi Grasso, Johnny Griffin, Miles Griffith, Steve Grossman, Slide Hampton, Craig Handy, Rufus Harley, Barry Harris, Eddie
Henderson, John Hendricks, Olivier Hutman, Stafford James, Oliver Jones, Duke Jordan, Olivier Ker Ourio, Siegfried Kessler, Peter King, Lee Konitz, Guy Laffitte, Lavelle, Andy Laverne, Eric Le
Lann, Kirk Lightsey, Kevin Mahogany, Rick Margitza, Jason Marsalis, Bill Mobley, JR Monterose, James
Moody, Dado Moroni, Sarah Morrow, Bob Mover, Kim Parker, Horace Parlan, Pierrick Pédron, Richie Perry, Houston Person,Philippe Petit, Lenny Popkin, Steve Potts, Babik Reinhardt, Manuel Rocheman,
Saul Rubin, Bob Sands, Michel Sardaby, Larry Schneider, Hervé Sellin, Kendra Shank, Louis Smith, Jim Snidero, James Spaulding, John Stubblefield, Lew Tabackin, Jacky Terrasson, "Toots"Thielemans,
Jean Toussaint, Mark Turner, Cedar Walton, Ernie Watts, Scott Wendholt, Phil Woods.
DVD :
2008 - Alain Jean-Marie "Alain la parole"
DISCOGRAPHIE :
2024 - Altus "Blame It On My Youth"
2024 - Albert Bover "A Parisian Affair"
2024 - Gaüd "Looking for Home"
2024 - Philippe Soirat "On the Spot"
2024 - Fabian Daurat "Quantum Scale Quartet"
2023 - Samy Thiébault "L'air de la mer rend libre" (BO du film)
2023 - Sara Miette "La Flamme"
2019 - Michèle Hendricks "Another Side"
2019 - Samy Thiébault "Symphonic Tales"
2019 - Philippe Soirat "Lines & Spaces"
2018 - Laurent Fickelson "In The Street"
2018 - Jacques Vidal "Hymn"
2018 - Emmanuel Borghi "Secret Beauty"
2017 - Ramona Horvath "Lotus Blossom"
2017 - Hervé Sellin "Always Too Soon"
2016 - Samy Thiébault "Rebirth"
2016 - Philomène Irawaddy "Cinderella's Notice"
2015 - Raymond Carter "Around Erroll Garner"
2015 - Michel Legrand "Michel Legrand & ses amis"
2015 - Philippe Soirat " You Know I Care "
2015 - Sarah Thorpe "Never Leave Me"
2015 - Radiosax "Chansons et sons d’anches"
2015 - Samy Thiébault "A feast Of Friend"
2014 - Himiko Paganotti "Jazz Songs"
2014 - Dal Sasso/Belmondo Big Band "A Love Supreme"
2013 - Nicolas Rageau "La complainte de la Tour Eiffel"
2013 - Nicolas Dary "L'autre rive"
2013 - Samy Thiébault "Clear Fire"
2012 - Michael Cheret "Manaverem"
2012 - Hiroshi Murayama "First Dragon"
2012 - Xavier Richardeau "Back To The Present"
2011 - Gael Horellou "Live !"
2011 - Christelle Pereira "The Maestro(s)"
2011 - Lenny Popkin "Live at the Inntone Festival"
2011 - Tina Provenzano "Jazzin"
2011 - Barend Middelhoff "Lucky Man"
2010 - Daiki Yasukagawa "Trios"
2010 - Tricia Evy "Beginning"
2010 - Barry Harris "Live in Rennes"
2010 - Gael Horellou "Segment"
2009 - Cédric Caillaud "Emma’s Groove"
2009 - Jean-Paul Adam/Patrick Bocquel "For Gene & Phil"
2009 - Hiroshi Murayama "Ballad Of Lyrics"
2009 - Philomène Irawaddy "Sun Side Songs"
2008 - Nicolas Dary "I'll Never Be The Same"
2008 - Yannick Rieu - "Saint-Gervais"
2007 - Gilles Naturel - "Belleville"
2007 - Voice Messengers - "Lumières d’automne"
2007 - Ted Curson "Live at the Sunside"
2007 - The Olding/Kannaste Four "Reinventing The Wheel"
2006 - Cédric Caillaud "June 26"
2006 - Frank Lacy "Tribe Vibe"
2006 - Stéphane Spira "First Page"
2005 - Gordon Beck "Seven Steps to Heaven"
2005 - Yannick Rieu "« I » is Memory"
2005 - Laurent Courthaliac "The Scarlet Street" ..
2004 - Christophe Dal Sasso "Ouverture"
2004 - Daniel Thouin "Mile End Waverly"
2004 - Daniel Thouin "Mile End St-Viateur"
2004 - Gordon Beck "Not the Last Waltz"
2003 - Sonia Cat-Berro "Keep In Touch"
2003 - Belmondo "Hymne au soleil"
2002 - Jean-Christophe Béney "Cassiopée"
2002 - Cyrille Bugnon "Sketch In Blue"
2001 - Ricky Ford "Songs For My Mother"
2001 - Yannick Rieu "Little Zab 2"
2001 - Laurence Allison "Thelonious & Bud Together Again"
2001 - Laurent Coq "Versatile"
2000 - Belmondo "Belmondo Quintet"
2000 - Laurent Fickelson "Secret Mood"
1999 - Yannick Rieu "Little Zab"
1999 - Belmondo "Infinity"
1999 - Laurent Fickelson "Under the Sixth"
1998 - Bob Sands "Jump Start"
1997 - François Théberge "Asteur"
1996 - Carlos Barretto "Going Up"
1995 - George Cables "Alone Together"
1995 - Barney Wilen "Passione"
1995 - Yannick Rieu "What Is the Colour of Love ?"
1994 - Jacky Samson "Hommage à Charles Saudrais"
1992 - Pierre-Yves Sorin "Parfums de contrebasse"