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= Aziz Esseghir =

Aziz (Abdelaziz) Esseghir is an Algerian Jazz composer and arranger.

He was born on the 9th June 1952 in the Kasbah of Algiers. After getting lost at the age of 6, his father decided to send him to Kabylie with his mother, his older brother and his sister. It was there that he did his primary and secondary education until leaving l’ecole normale(highr education) without regret, to devote himself to music. Self-taught and especially without resources, he was for years at the mercy of some well-off friends to practice piano exercises at home. - 10minutes in one, 15 minutes in the other, not having the means to afford a keyboard of his own, until the day a priest of a nearby chapel gave him an old worn harmonium. His life changed completely.

He started off easy playing classic pieces such as Mozart's sonata in C, the Turkish march, Beethoven's famous letter, a small excerpt from the 5th symphony which he played in a jazz style & a small excerpt from the avé maria de schubert and a bit of moonlight from Debussy ect ....

His favorite styles of music are classicojazz, jazz and blues, latin jazz and especially soundtracks from motion pictures with composers such as:


 * Elmer Bernstein (great escape - magnifiecent seven)
 * Bernard Herrman (psycho)
 * Michel Legrand (Cherbourg umbrella - Lady sings the blues)
 * Maurice Jarre (doctor zivago) and also music from horror movies (vampires and werewolves)
 * John Williams (dracula etc.)

Aziz describes himself as a singular being. Discreet, naive and very modest who longs for nothing except the need to play the piano. “I am always learning”, he says, “and I like that.”

In London he studied the arrangement of music & composition, film music and jazz. In addition to the above-mentioned composers. - Some of his favourites are: Olivier Messiaen, Rachmaninoff, Claude Bolling, Eddie Palmieri and his brother Charlie, Sergio Mendes, Stan Getz, Piazzola Astor, Ella Fidzgerald, Billie Hollyday, Louis Armstrong, Bill Evans and many others .... A real multicolored palette, all in a very pastiche a la Aziz.

He taught music to children for a decade in Londons french community. Terrible health problems prevent him from leading a normal life even less to occur in public yet despite this, he tries to hang on to his fate without complaint. "As long as my family and the music are with me," he says, "I fight as I have always done since I was young.” The states: the future, loneliness, silence and lack of music are the only things that scare him ...

= Works = He has composed more than 250 pieces - among them we count:

and many, many more ....
 * - sérénade pour une femme vampire
 * - piano en folie
 * - la complainte du Lycan
 * - paname,
 * - siempre en mi corazon
 * - The pastiche
 * - stomping at the haute-ville
 * - out or the blue
 * - mouse-trap
 * - third pocket blues
 * - the're still time
 * - te quiero
 * - Rawa
 * - prisoner of the past
 * - tavrast y Yemma
 * - ya noor
 * - a quiet man