Jean Demey
Jean Demey (b. 1953) is a Belgian bassist, clarinetist, and percussionist from Brussels, who plays [i]darbouka[/i] drums. In the early 1970s, Demey started his career in folk music in Antwerp. Soon he met several jazz musicians, and his artistic priorities changed irrevocably. Jean Demey began playing in a trio with alto saxophonist [a=Mike Zinzen], and formed a few ensembles with [a=Chris Joris], [a=Michel Mast] (of [a=X-Legged Sally]), and [a=Luc Mishalle]. Other notable musicians who collaborated or improvised with Jean Demey include [a=Steve Lacy], [a=Mal Waldron], and [a=Beaver Harris]. Around the same time, Demey met an acclaimed lutist [a=Hassan Erraji] and started a new group [b][a=Arabesque (4)][/b] with percussionist [a=Pierre Narcisse], dedicated to a study of Arabic and Mid-Eastern music. They recorded several albums with Erraji in the late 1980s and early 1990s. With a growing interest in multicultural cooperation and world music fusion, Jean Demey started working with many outstanding international musicians, such as [a= N'Faly Kouyate] from Guinea, Turkish [i]saz[/i] player [a=Mahir Tezerdi] and his father on bass drum, Italian singer [a=Angelo De Simone], Algerian and Moroccan [i]raï[/i] singers [a=Cheb Kader] and [a=Cheb Mimoun], and sitarist [a=Yakke Moens]. Demey plays regularly in [b][a=Sureau][/b] trio with vocalist [a=Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg] and [a=Kris Vanderstraeten] on drums. Together with clarinetist [a=Ove Volquartz], Jean Demey organized a few ensembles, including [b][a=TAG TRIO][/b] with Japanese pianist [a=Yoko Miura], which released [r=5775758] album in 2012, and another trio with French drummer [a=Luc Bouquet] – they recorded [r=6875443] CD in 2014. He also worked extensively with [b][url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/610407][i]IN[/i]audible Collective[/url][/b].
