Guy Cabay

Guy Cabay (born with Polleur in 1950) is a Belgian musician of Jazz.

It composes and sings also its own songs where a Brazilian influence is felt.

In 1978, he writes already the lyric song Tot-a-fèt rote neck of zeùr neck-with zos , a combination of Bossa nova and dialect inhabitant of Li2ege. Guy Cabay has a diploma of musicology of the Université of Liege where it had as professor Henri Pousseur.

He shares then his time between Venice, Bologna where he works with his doctorate on the medieval music, and Liege where he meets and plays with personalities of the jazz: Making Raoul, Maurice Simon, Jacques Pelzer, Rene Thomas, and later Steve Houben, Jacques Pirotton, Charles Loos, Michel Herr, Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, etc

In 1979, Guy Cabay is, with Steve Houben and some muscians of jazz of his generation, the cofounder of the Séminaire of Jazz of the Academy of Liege under the direction of Henri Pousseur.

In 1983, it signs the Manifeste for the Walloon culture .

It recorded discs with Toots Thielemans, Larry Schneider, Bill Frisell, Philip Catherine, etc

He also wrote for the cinema and television.

In 1987, it starts to teach the history of the jazz to the royal Conservatoire of Brussels and to the Academy of Luxembourg.

In 1998, under the pressure of its admirors, it records a new album of Walloon songs where it mixes dialect Wallon, jazz and Brazilian music. This CD is entitled The Bièsse Tof (pun interfering two languages Belgium starting from The best off… - bièsse being translated by stupid into Walloon and tof indicating in Dutch something of super ).

In 1999, he teaches in France, occurs with Washington and receives the Price of the Inheritance to the Academy of Brussels.

External bonds

Presentation of its career
Some of its texts
15 {{E}} international festival of jazz in Liege in 2005
Romance new of Guy Belleflamme where Guy Cabay is introduced to the chapter 9
CD '' The Bièsse Tof ''
CD '' One the Jazz Side off my street ''

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