Philip Catherine

Biography

Philip Catherine was born in London to an English mother and Belgian father and was raised in Brussels. His grandfather played violin in the London Symphony Orchestra. Catherine started on guitar in his teens, and by seventeen he was performing professionally at local venues.

He released his debut album, Steam, in 1970. During the next few years, he studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and with Mick Goodrick and George Russell. In 1976, he and guitarist Larry Coryell recorded and toured as an acoustic duo. The following year he recorded with Charles Mingus, who dubbed him "Young Django". In the early 1980s, he toured briefly with Benny Goodman. He was in trio with Didier Lockwood and Christian Escoudé, then in a trio with Chet Baker. During the 1990s, he recorded three albums with trumpeter Tom Harrell.

Catherine has also worked with Lou Bennett, Kenny Drew, Dexter Gordon, Stéphane Grappelli, Karin Krog, Paul Kuhn, Sylvain Luc, Michael Mantler, Charlie Mariano, Palle Mikkelborg, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Enrico Rava, Toots Thielemans, and Miroslav Vitous.

Solo

As co-leader

Trio with Charlie Mariano & Jasper van 't Hof

Duo with Chet Baker

Duo with Larry Coryell

Trio with Kenny Drew & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

Trio with Larry Coryell & Joachim Kühn

Trio with Didier Lockwood & Christian Escoude

Trio with Jean-Louis Rassinfosse & Chet Baker

Duo with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

Duo with Bert Joris

Collaborations

With Lou Bennett & Jack Sels

With Jean-Luc Ponty

With Klaus Weiss

With Jean-Luc Ponty & Stéphane Grappelli

With Toots Thielemans

With Marc Moulin

With Peter Herbolzheimer

With Karin Krog

With Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

With Rolf Kühn

With John Lee & Gerry Brown

With Michael Gibbs

With Dexter Gordon Quartet

With Passport

With Joachim Kühn

With Focus

With Larry Coryell

With Charles Mingus

With NDR

With Carla Bley & Mike Mantler

With Stéphane Grappelli

With Zbigniew Seifert

With Chet Baker

With Aldo Romano

With Jean-Claude Petit

With the European Jazz Ensemble

With Maurane

With Freddie Deronde

With Richard Galliano

With Barney Wilen & Palle Danielsson

With Diederik Wissels & David Linx

With Erkan Ogur

With Jacques Pelzer

With Laila Dalseth

With Marcia Maria

With Ivan Paduart

With Aziza Mustafa Zadeh

With Baruti Trio @ 4

With Emmanuel Bex & Aldo Romano

With Robert Wyatt

With Orion

With Enrico Pieranunzi

With Joan Reinders

With Oliver Strauch

With Julien Clerc

With Soledad