SAXOPHONIST, COMPOSER, ARRANGER

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Ronald ALPHONSE a étudié l' harmonie et la composition classique avec le pianiste et compositeur grec Demis VISVIKIS pendant huit ans en cours privés, et dans le même temps, il a étudié le saxophone, le Jazz et l'improvisation à l' IACP avec Alan SILVA, Itaru OKI, François COTINAUD, Denis COLIN....

Il a joué avec (entre autre), ou accompagné:

Yuri BUENAVETURA, Oscar LOPEZ, Orlando POLEO, Ralph TAMAR, Peter KING, Claude BOLLING, YVINEC, CHOCOLATE, Jerry GONZALES, Véronika RODRIGUEZ, Florence DAVIS, Elvita DELGADO, John MEYER, Zool FLEISCHER, Cynthia SCOTT, Nancy KELLY, Cab CALLOWAY "Junior", Paula WEST, Linda Lee HOPKINS, UPTOWN jazz vocal quartet, Michel HAUSSER, Michaël CIVISTA, Claire MARTIN, Tony MARSHALL, Pikey BUTLER, Mandy GAINES, Richard JACKSON, Bruce ADAMS......

Il s'est produit dans de nombreux festivals Mindelo (cap-Vert), Nice Jazz Festival, Marciac,Vic-Fesensac, Andore Jazz Festival, Lorient Milan, Florence, Vienne, Evian, Caen, Armada du Jazz, nuits d'outre mers, Fiestas des suds, Nîmes, Vannes,Thonon les bains..

Il a joué dix ans le saxophone baryton dans le grand orchestre MAMBOMANIA (Chapelle des Lombards, Bataclan, Hot brass, Elysée Montmartre, New Morning, La Coupole, Le petit journal), Festivals en France et à l'étranger (première partie de James BROWN à Estoril en 2000..) , radios, nombreuses télévisions .

Il s'est perfectionné en arrangement et composition JAZZ auprès de Maria SCHNEIDER et Laurent CUGNY.

Il joue également avec de nombreux big bands: l'EURO JAZZ BIG BAND, COTE OUEST BIG BAND....et la formation de Gospel "TRIBUTE TO THE ROOTS".

Musicien de studio, il écrit et fait des séances pour des musiques de films, téléfilms et supports publicitaires.

Arrangeur, il écrit pour différents contextes et commandes ex: - Symposium GSK sur les musiciens de JAZZ et leurs pathologies spécifiques).

Actuellement, et parallèlement à sa situation de sideman, il privilégie le latin Jazz avec son groupe "RONALD ALPHONSE LATIN JAZZ PROJECT ".

RONALD ALPHONSE latin Jazz project - THELONIOUS (2008)

Drums /timbales/percussions : Stephane LAMBOTTE

Piano : Eric MONTIGNY Bass

double bass : Laurent BERNARD

Tumbas/percussions : Dimitri GRANGER

Trumpet/ Bugle : Yann MARTIN - Nicolas GENEST

Trombone : Olivier CARON

Vibes : David PATROIS

Guitar : Jean-marie ECAY

Saxes/arrangements: Ronald ALPHONSE

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As a kid, I remember listening to my dad's record, MONK in quintet with Frank FOSTER, Ray COPELAND, Art BLACKEY, and Curley RUSSELL... There were two mysteries about this album: First of all, a bit of white paint was so encrusted in the vinyl at the beginning of "we see" that each time it was played, it started in the middle of the song. I've always wondered how it began...and where that paint ever came from! Secondly, since there had only been 4 songs recorded, the record was so much smaller and so much heavier than a normal 33 ( that it looked like an old 78.) All of this seemed extremely strange to me, but curiously enough, not the music that I listened to with such pleasure. I've always felt very close to MONK's musical universe. undoubtedly, it's because of his sense of humor immediately found within his composition, and the thematic and repetitive treatment of his playing (which is similar to mine). It's also for the personal and mysterious manner that MONK has of undoing and reconstructing with such perfect use of rhythm and silence. Here is my explanation for this new CD. I've taken the liberty of arranging some of THELONIOUS' songs that I love so much in my very own special way among which is "we see."