Philippe Gaillot (musician)

In 2021, Gaillot released the album Cassistanbul on his own label, That Sound Records. In these last two albums, he worked with Mike Stern, Jacky Terrasson, Stéphane Belmondo, Irving Acao, Linley Marthe, Dominique Di Piazza, Olivier Ker Ourio, and Pierre de Bethmann.

In 2018, Ilona Records released Be Cool. Gaillot released it at the Nîmes Métropole Jazz Festival 2018. The idea for the album began at a concert in Marseille when Mike Stern suggested to Gaillot, one of his former students, to record some of its titles.

In 2004, he will leave France to produce and record in Santiago de Cuba the album of singer Nora Mirsy LaVida.

In 1994, he created Recall Studio, where he has recorded with Alain Bashung, Noir Désir, Césaria Evora, Stomy Bugsy, Corneille, Julien Doré, Gipsy Kings, Massilia Sound System, Pino Palladino, Jon Carin, Mike Stern, John McLaughlin, Shakti, Jacky Terrasson, and Biréli Lagrène. In 1995 RDC released Between You and Me, which he recorded with oudist Nabil Ibn Khalidi and saxophonists Bobby Rangell and Jorge Pardo.

In 1993, Gaillot was sound director of the Festival de St Louis du Sénégal. He then worked with Lucky Peterson and Randy Weston. He met the Koriste Soriba Kouyaté, who he managed for several years.

On his return to France in 1985, he led Concept with bassist Philippe Gareil and recorded an album that was released by 52e Rue Est. He performed in Nîmes International Jazz Festival, opening act for Ray Charles. In 1988 RDC released Lady Stroyed. He founded the Lady Stroyed Band, a group of ten musicians which performed in Europe until the end of the 1990s.

In 1981 Gaillot formed the band Concept, which published his first record. The same year, he created Big Fun, a jazz club near Anduze in the Cévennes. At the end of 1984, he returned to New York where he met Jaco Pastorius, Darryl Jones, and Mino Cinélu. He became the pupil of Mike Stern and John Scofield, who both played in bands with Miles Davis.

In 1976, back in France, this passion for the recording world led him to create his studio La Calade in a village in the Gard. From then on, Gaillot pursued a dual career as a producer/sound engineer and composer-musician.

Philippe Gaillot (born 26 May 1956) is a French jazz-fusion guitarist, pianist, singer, and composer. He is also a producer and sound engineer.