Mimi VERDERAME Drums, guitar

At age 14 he enters the Liège music academy and at the same time has his first experiences in the recording studios.

It is a year later that he discovers his other passion, the guitar, which he learns to play while listening, for hours, to the great names of jazz. This enabled hism to compose and make arrangements for the Belgian radio and television for various singers and big bands.

At age 17 he does his first steps in jazz with a great master - sax player Jacques PELZER. Immediately Mimi VERDERAME distinguishes himself a an outstanding and talented musicians.
His qualities put him in a central place within the jazz scene and he finds himself playing with Steve HOUBEN, John RUOCCO, Toots THIELEMANS, Larry SCHNEIDER, Eef ALBERS, Gino LATTUCA, Fabrice ALLEMAN, Nathalie LORIERS, Philip CATHERINE, singer MAURANE, etc....

In 1996 he formed his own septet, the "JAZZ ADDICTION BAND".
In April '2000, the band releases its first album, "NICE CAP" (LYRAE 200021-C).
JAZZ ADDICTION has also won the '99 Nicolas Dor Prize as the best Belgian concert of the '99 edition of the Jazz à Liège Festival, awarded by the PAB/BAP, the Belgian Artistic Promotion of Sabam, the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers.

Mimi VERDERAME released another new CD in September '99. Titled Game Over (A Records AL 73185 ), it was recorded with a quartet composed of Eric LEGNINI (piano), Bart DE NOLF (bass) and Italian alto sax player Rosario GIULIANI, who won the Europ' Jazz Contest in Hoeilaart.

Note that Mimi VERDERAME is also an excellent guitar player. He can be heard a.o. on the Hommage à René THOMAS CD and on his JAZZ ADDICTION BAND CD Nice Cap.

SEE MIMI VERDERAME's BANDS :

• MIMI VERDERAME QUARTET
• JAZZ ADDICTION BAND

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY

	Steve HOUBEN	Steve HOUBEN + Strings	Igloo igl 121, 1983/CD reissue in1995
	Ivan PADUART	AFTER TOUCH	B.SHARP 1990
	Mimi VERDERAME	SPEED LIMIT	B. SHARP 1990
	Robert JEANNE	QUARTETS	B.SHARP 1991
	Gino LATTUCA	MY IMPRESSION	B.SHARP 1992
	Nathalie LORIERS	NYMPHÉAS	IGLOO 1992
	MANSION	APPELLATION D'ORIGINE FRANÇAISE	AMOUR 1993
	Ivan PADUART	TURQUOISE	B.SHARP 1994
	PAPAGAYO	AMAZONE
	Pierre BODSON	ROUGE
	Mimi VERDERAME	BUMPY ROAD	Igloo Igl 129, 1996
	MANSION	NO TIME TO LOOSE
	Stéphane MARTINI	SPANISH FRIENDS
	Mimi VERDERAME	GAME OVER	(A Records) 1999
	JAZZ ADDICTION BAND	NICE CAP	(Lyrae) 2000
	Ivan PADUART / Rick MARGITZA	STILL	(A-Records) 2002

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