Hamp Digs Ham, by François DECAMPS Octet (1998)

Hamp Digs Ham

by François DECAMPS Octet (1998)

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

€10 EUR or more

1.	Equals D 08:16	buy track
2.	K. Do 07:04	buy track
3.	Moon Palace 05:06	buy track
4.	Dou Dou 07:40	buy track
5.	Hamp Digs Ham 05:54	buy track
6.	Carottes Rappées 05:33	buy track
7.	Beautiful Love 05:04	buy track
8.	Black Dog 07:28	buy track

about

Listen on www.lyraekrokomusic.com/decamps

Gratuated from the Berklee College of Music of Boston.

The leader of this octet, François Decamps, has graduated from the Berklee College of Music of Boston where he studied for 3 years. He has drawned from these three years in the United States and from his first teacher of jazz, Pierre Vandormael, his principal influences, in his guitar technique as well as in his compositions.

First pupil of Greg Hopkins than of Herb Pomeroy, he learns tradition both in the wrinting of arrangements for big bands and in the “Bebop” improvisation. He will be then, influenced by John Damian (teacher of Bill Frisell), Hal Croock and Georges Garzone with whom he will perform several times.

These musicians will make him discover a new approach of jazz and of improvisation in general, inspired by the “Bebop” as well as by other musical universe. Back in Belgium, François teaches the guitar, the composition and arrangement at the “ Conservatoire” and at the “Jazz Studio” in Antwerpen and performs regulary in our jazz clubs in trio, quartet and with his octet.

Since 1992, François has multiplied musical experiences in encounters with many Belgian Jazzmen among which : Bart Defoort, Gino Latuca, Jeroen Van Herzeele, Michel Hatzigeorgiou, Bo Van Der Werf, Stephan Galland...

credits

released April 4, 2021

François DECAMPS, Guitar
Ben SLUYS, Alto Sax
Daniel STOKART, Alto Sax
Michel PARE, trumpet
Jeroen VAN HERZEELE, Tenor Sax
Lode MERTENS, Trombone
Piet VERBIST, Bass Acoustic
Koen LIECKENS, Drums.

license

about

LYRAE Music Namur, Belgium

Ever since it started in 1994, LYRAE Records has undertaken, as a label, to promote the creativity of musicians, Belgian and international, in the fields of Jazz, Blues, New and World music. Very quickly followed by the label KROKO Records with Odex Protocol and Giusi, but above all, the blues group Fred and the Healers. ... more