Samson Schmitt Trio
Born on September 20, 1979, he first learned how to play guitar with his father Dorado. He plays in public for the first time at 12 at the International Jazz Festival in Munich, Germany. This concert is an opportunity for the Gypsy children of the new generation to play together on the same stage, with Timbo Merhrstein on violin and Yano Scordo and Jouani Scordo on rhythm guitars.
In jazz, Samson particularly appreciates Luis Salinas, Stochelo Rosenberg, Dorado Schmitt, Jaco Pastorius, Didier Lockwood, Diana Krall, Ella Fitzgerald, Barry White, Stevie Wonder, Billi Paul as well as the groups The Wispers and the Bee Gees.
He claims to be influenced by George Benson, Richard Galliano, Bireli Lagrene, Toots Thielemans, Florin Nicaulescu, Didier Lockwood, Sylvain Luc, Dominique Di Piazza and Angelo Debarre.
From 1990 to 1999 he played with the Dorado Schmitt Quintet, the group Kakiweiss (rhythm guitar) and with Hono and Gino Reinhardt.
In 2000 and 2001 he played with Alexandre Cavalieres, Tchavolo Schmitt, Povro Sinto, Angelo Debarre (Corsican Trio), Jimmy Rosenberg and with his own group the Samson Schmitt Quartet.
He has played in many festivals between 1994 and 2001, including the Sinti jazz Night in Munich, Germany, Jazz Sur le Feu in St. Andre les Vergers, the Gipsy Swing Festival in Angers, the Festival Manouche Appona in Strasbourg, the Festival of Espace Pompidou in Vincennes, France. He participated in the Nuits de la Guitare in Patrimonio, Corsica where he invited Dominique Di Piazza (July 2002) and in the Festival Sons D'Hiver in Paris (2002) invited by his father Dorado Schmitt.
In November 2002 he was invited, with Dorado, to the Django Reinhardt Festival at the Birdland club in New York, giving him the opportunity to play with Paquito DiRivera, James Carter and George Benson.
In January 2003 he plays at the Oslo Festival in Norway. In 2003, 2004 and 2005 he participates in numerous concerts and festivals in the US and in Europe.
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