Gregory Page, originally from North London, was raised with music. As a tall, skinny teenager with thick glasses and a stutter he had more interest in 78rpm records than in any business-oriented study. He dreamed of, as he states on his website, “growing up to become a Female African American Blues Singer like his hero Billie Holiday”.
When he moved to America he sat and listened to music from ‘the bad old days’ with his mentor Lou Curtiss day after day. Inspired by the old gramophone records, Gregory Page developed his voice and songwriting to the kind of jazz that breathes melancholy but is calming at the same time. A contrabass slowly makes its way through the music, step by step, while a piano easily sings the melody. Drums that are touched with a brush, a guitar that lightly reminds of the guitarstyle of Parisian gypsies, but is replaced with a steelguitar the next moment. The lyrics are on a literary level, yet in a poetic way that everyone understands.
There are only a few people like Gregory Page. It almost seems like this man stepped into a time machine in the twenties to provide us, over nine decades later, with his wonderful music. This charming man always brings the atmosphere of old-fashioned jazz clubs and black and white movies to the stage, a visionary in a suit.
This time Gregory Page is on tour as a trio instead of a quartet, as follows:
Gregory Page – vocals, guitar
Sky Ladd – piano
Josh Hermsmeier – percussion
Tess et Les Moutons Magnifiques is inspired by the beloved chanson artists who tried to catch the city of Paris in music and lyrics in the past eight decades. With a varied and wide-ranging repertoire, amongst which artists such as Edith Piaf, Zaza, Charles (yep, most all of them!), Tess and her Moutons try to get a little ‘Vie Parisienne’ to the Lowlands.