BRUSSELS JAZZ ORCHESTRA & RICHARD GALLIANO

Richard Galliano began playing accordion at the tender age of four, and by the age of twelve he was regarded as a child prodigy. Galliano studied harmony, counterpoint and trombone at the conservatoire in Nice. In 1973, he decided to move to Paris. He was Claude Nougarro’s musical conductor for seven years, during which time he also made recordings with such jazz musicians as Chet Baker, Eddy Louis and Michel Portal. In the nineties, along with guitarist Philip Catherine, Galliano launched the ‘new musette’. For these recordings, Galliano was awarded a Django d’Or, a prestigious Belgian jazz prize. With the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Richard Galliano is working on a project that explores the common ground between jazz, tango and musette.

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