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Debellefontaine Fabien

Every kind of Saxophones, Sousaphone, Tuba, Clarinet, Flute ... Here is my story.

Sent at 8 eight years to the neighbourhood music school, at saxophone due to a lack of staff in the city orchestra (i wanted to play the trumpet, by the way...), and after trying to spend a « classic » life, becoming Chemical & Physical Measurements Superior Technician (yes, ma'am), i realize that i definitely prefer blow horns.

Actually, Saxophone is not so bad !

After few years learning with Nicolas Dary, André Villéger, Philippe Macé, Tony Russo, Pierre Bertrand, Nicolas Folmer and Emyl Spanii (Paris 9th), i created a big band named L'Oreille Cassée, for wich i wrote all the pieces, and i recorded a CD album with Inama, co-led jazz sextet rewarded at Saint-Germain-des-Prés and La Défense 2007 Festivals.

Today, i collaborate with Fred Maurin's 13tet Ping Machine and Jean Baptiste Court's quintet Pensativa. I still take part in Banda Les Verres Luisants, friends brass-band from city orchestra (see above), who preferred rugby stadiums and fiestas to concerts and commemorations in churches with shiny leather shoes... Then, the summer of 2005, i get a Sousaphone. Huh ?! How does it works... After some doubtfull weeks, i start to like it and to feel like a bassist (place i had in Banda Los Amarillos, but with a Baritone sax...). I decide to learn Tuba (with Fred Marillier & Jérémie Dufort). After some well- done-music-school-things, i am today the Tubist/Sousaphonist of Julien Soro's Big Four, Julien Silvand's New Orleans & Tap Dance band Les Oignons and Amina Mezaache's Brazilia 4tet. I also contribute to some free improvisation sessions (Amok Improv'). Here i am now more than ever as a poly-instrumentist, on stage or down in the streets, playing on the big spectrum of Jazz.

Awards

Press Awards : CHOC Jazzmagazine : Big Four - Big Four CHOC Jazzmagazine : Ping Machine - Des Trucs Pareils **** Jazzmagazine : Big Four - Nos Sons Unis DECOUVERTE Jazz News : Ping Machine - Des Trucs Pareils DECOUVERTE Jazz News : Big Four - Nos Sons Unis DISQUE ELU Citizen Jazz : Ping Machine - Des Trucs Pareils Contests Awards : Winner of Saint Germain des Prés Jazz Contest (2007), Band Category, with Inama Winner of La Défense Jazz Contest (2007) Composition Category, with Inama

Gear

Selmer Mark VI Tenor & Soprano Saxes Conn Lady Face Alto, Baritone Saxes & Sousaphone Conn 5J Tuba Hawkes & Sons 4Valves Euphonium Yamaha 281 Flute Buffet Crampon Bb Clarinet


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"Leur prestation est marquée par un mélange de précision, d'exactitude, de sens du détail, et de lyrisme, de spontanéité, de lâché prise, qu'incarnent l'élégance de Rafael Koerner, l'énergie de Julien Soro, la malice de Fabien Debellefontaine et la présence de Stéphane Caracci." Franck Bergerot, JazzMagazine

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