Leon Phal

Originally from Aÿ-en-Champagne, the Franco-saxophonistSwiss Léon Phal has been living in Geneva for several years following his studies at the Haute Ecole de Lausanne where he met his accomplices with whom he is today the European cream of this generation of thirty-year-old bottles of classics and who frees himself from it all paying tribute to them brilliantly.

His mastery of the instrument, his incredible sense of melody and the delicacy of his compositions amplified by a devastating groove have brought Léon Phal in a few years as one of the most exciting jazz musicians. A talent discovered through “Canto Bello”, his first album (released in 2019) which did not escape the festivals Nancy Jazz Pulsations and Jazz in Vienna, of which he was suddenly the winner of the springboards the same year. A “freshness” noted by the press that has dedicated it to “Révélation” (Jazz Mag 2019), “Top 5 saxophonists” (Jazz News 2021) and even as “coup de coeur” (Le Monde, TSF Jazz, FIP, France Musique, Académie Charles Cros etc.). Léon Phal was even recently nominated in the final of the Victoires du Jazz 2022, following the release of his second opus “Dust to Stars” in April 2021.

Léon Phal releases in 2023 his third album «Stress Killer» through which the group continues its quest for a modern jazz and resolutely groove with always an important freedom left to improvisations.