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Roberto Gatto
Roberto Gatto is an Italian jazz drummer, born October 6, 1958 in Rome. He has performed with Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Bob Berg, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Zawinul, and Joe Lovano. He has composed film music, is the leader of his own jazz group and a member of the ensemble of Pino Daniele, a Neapolitan singer. Discography As leader * ''Notes'' (Gala, 1986) * ''Ask'' (Gala, 1987) * ''Luna'' (Gala, 1989) * ''7 #'' (Via Veneto, 1997) * ''Sing Sing Sing'' (Via Veneto, 1999) * ''Roberto Gatto Plays Rugantino'' (CAM Jazz, 2000) * ''Deep'' (CAM Jazz, 2003) * ''Jazzitaliano Live 2006'' (Casa del Jazz, 2006) * ''Traps'' (CAM Jazz, 2007) * ''Progressivamente'' (Casa del Jazz, 2008) * ''Jazzitaliano Live 2009'' (Casa del Jazz, 2009) * ''Remembering Shelly'' (Albore, 2010) * ''Remembering Shelly 2'' (Albore, 2010) * ''Pure Imagination'' (Albore, 2011) * ''Replay'' (Parco Della Musica, 2012) * ''Starship for Lovers'' with Alfonso Santimone, Pierpaolo Ranieri, (Parco Della Musica, 2014) * ''Sixth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
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Franck Avitabile
Franck Avitabile (born 24 November 1971) is a jazz pianist. Avitabile has synesthesia. He is also the composer of 60 published compositions. Awards and honors * Second Grand Prize - Concours International de la Ville de Paris - Martial Solal Piano Jazz International Competition 1998 * DjangodOr - Best First Record Album, France 1999 * Victoires de la Musique Victoires de la Musique (; en, Victories of Music) is an annual French award ceremony where the Victoire accolade is delivered by the French Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The classical and jazz ... - Revelation of the year 2004 * CHOC ''Jazzman'' magazine for the album ''Just Play'', 2006 * CHOC ''Jazzman'' magazine for the album ''Short Stories'', 2006 * FIP Radio CD of the month for the album ''Paris Sketches'', 2009 Selected discography Discography *Franck Avitabile - Paris Sketches (2009) *Michel Petrucciani The Montreux Years (2023) - as an executive produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grazia Di Michele
Grazia Di Michele (born 9 October 1955) is an Italian singer-songwriter. Life and career Born Maria Grazia Di Michele in Rome to parents from Abruzzo, at very young age, she founded with Chiara Scotti and Clelia Lamorgese "L'Ape di Vetro" ("The Glass Bee"), a politically inspired musical group which disbanded after a few years. She debuted as a solo singer at Folkstudio, a music venue in Rome, in 1977. In those years she also worked in a cultural club in Rome, the "Johann Sebastian Bar", and worked as a disc jockey in radio. Her first album ''Cliché'', characterized by provocative lyrics about feminist and social themes, was released in 1978. In 1983 she released the album '' Ragiona col cuore'', of which the title track tells the story of a lesbian love, then in 1986 she got her first and major commercial success with the single "Le ragazze di Gauguin" and with the album with the same name. Between 1990 and 1993 she entered the Sanremo Music Festival three times, ranking th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Fuller Meets Roma Jazz Trio
''Curtis Fuller Meets Roma Jazz Trio'' is an album by trombonist Curtis Fuller which was recorded in Italy in 1982 and released on the Dutch Timeless label.Fitzgerald, MCurtis Fuller Leader Entry accessed October 22, 2019 Track listing # " Impressions" (John Coltrane) – 6:38 # "R.E.D.'s Delights" (Curtis Fuller) – 6:49 # "Jazz Island" (Fuller) – 5:42 # "Naima" (Coltrane) – 8:19 # " Afternoon in Paris (John Lewis) – 6:41 # "Blue Bossa" ( Kenny Dorham) – 5:15 Personnel *Curtis Fuller – trombone *Danilo Rea – piano * Enzo Pietropaoli – bass *Roberto Gatto Roberto Gatto is an Italian jazz drummer, born October 6, 1958 in Rome. He has performed with Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Bob Berg, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Zawinul, and Joe Lovano. He has composed film music, is the leader of his own jazz group and a ... – drums References {{Authority control Curtis Fuller albums 1984 albums Timeless Records albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Fuller
Curtis DuBois Fuller (December 15, 1932May 8, 2021) was an American jazz trombonist. He was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributed to many classic jazz recordings. Early life Fuller was born in Detroit on December 15, 1932. His father had emigrated from Jamaica and worked in a Ford automobile factory, but he died from tuberculosis before his son was born. His mother, who had moved north from Atlanta, died when he was 9. He spent several years in an orphanage run by Jesuits. He developed a passion for jazz after one of the nuns there brought him to see Illinois Jacquet and his band perform, with J. J. Johnson on trombone. Fuller attended a public school in his hometown, together with Paul Chambers, Donald Byrd, Tommy Flanagan, Thad Jones, and Milt Jackson. There, he took up the trombone when he was sixteen, after attempting the violin and with the saxophone (his next choice) being unavailable. He studied under Johnson and Elmer James. Career Fuller joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivano Fossati
Ivano Alberto Fossati (born 21 September 1951) is an Italian pop singer from Genoa. He was a member of the progressive rock group Delirium and has worked with Fabrizio De André, Riccardo Tesi, Anna Oxa, Mia Martini, Ornella Vanoni, Shirley Bassey, Francesco De Gregori, Menudo and Mina. In October 2011, after the release of the album ''Decadancing'', Fossati announced during Fabio Fazio's TV show ''Che tempo che fa'' that he decided to end his music career: "I've been thinking a lot about it, not in the last days, but during last two or three years. This will be my last album, and I won't record any new album. And my next tour will be the last one". Fossati's last concert was held at the Teatro Piccolo in Milan, on 19 March 2012. Discography *''Il grande mare che avremmo traversato'' (1973) *''Poco prima dell'aurora'' (with Oscar Prudente; 1974) *''Good-bye Indiana'' (1975) *''La casa del serpente'' (1977) *''La mia banda suona il rock'' (1979) *''Panama e dintorni'' (1981) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Damiani
Paolo Damiani (born 1952) is an Italian jazz cellist and double-bassist. Performing primarily avant-garde jazz, he has worked with Gianluigi Trovesi, Kenny Wheeler, Tony Oxley, Paolo Fresu, and John Taylor. Damiani has also recorded on the albums of Deep Forest and Bauhaus. Discography As leader * ''Unisoni'' (Clac, 1989) * ''Eso'' with Paolo Fresu, Gianluigi Trovesi, Danilo Rea, Roberto Gatto, Raffaela Siniscalchi, Antonio Iasevoli, Sabina Macculi (Splasc(H), 1994) * ''IS Ensemble'' (Via Veneto Jazz, 1996) * ''Sconcerto'' with Stefano Benni (Il Manifesto, 1999) * ''Mediana'' with Carlo Mariani, Michele Rabbia, Sandro Satta, Carlo Rizzo (EGEA, 1999) * ''Charmediterraneen'' with Orchestre National De Jazz, Anouar Brahem, Gianluigi Trovesi (ECM, 2002) * ''Provvisorio'' with Alea Ensemble (Splasc(H), 2004) * ''Ladybird'' (EGEA, 2004) * ''Jazzitaliano Live 2007'' (Casa Del Jazz, 2007) * ''Al Tempo Che Fara'' (EGEA, 2007) * ''Pane e Tempesta'' (EGEA, 2010) * ''Classiche Musiche Legge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Ciotti
Roberto Ciotti (20 February 1953 – 31 December 2013) was an Italian blues musician, composer and guitarist. Life and career Born in Rome, Ciotti began playing the guitar at the age of 12. From 1970 to 1972 he was a member of the jazz band Blue Morning, then he started a solo career as a bluesman, a composer and a professional guitarist, collaborating with Chet Baker, Francesco De Gregori and Edoardo Bennato, among others. His debut album was ''Supergasoline Blues'', released in 1978. In 1980, he opened the Italian concerts of Bob Marley. In 1989 he got critical and commercial success with the musical score of ''Marrakech Express'' by Gabriele Salvatores, with whom he collaborated again two years later in '' On Tour''. After the 2002 album ''Behind the Door'' he devoted himself mainly to the live concerts. In 2006 he published an autobiography, ''Unplugged'', in which he recounted the difficulty of coherence in doing blues without ever yielding to the lure of show business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Casini
Barbara Casini (born 1954 in Florence) is an Italian jazz vocalist and guitarist. While studying piano, she was exposed to bossa nova at the age of 15, which had a marked influence on her musical life. After graduating with a degree in psychology from the University of Padova, she started performing in 1979. She has recorded and performed with Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Leo Walls, Francisco Petreni, Stefano Bollani, and Enrico Rava Enrico Rava (born 20 August 1939), is an Italian jazz trumpeter. He started on trombone, then changed to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis. Career He was born in Trieste, Italy. His first commercial work was as a member of Gato Barbieri' .... Discography *1997 – ''Todo o Amor'' *1999 – ''Outro Lado'' *2000 – ''Vento'' *2000 – ''Sozinha'' *2001 – ''Você e Eu'' *2002 – ''Outra Vez'' *2003 – ''Uma voz para Caetano'' *2004 – ''Anos Dourados'' *2004 – ''Uragano Elis'' *2005 – ''Luiza'' *2007 – ''Palavra Prima'' *200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Cammariere
Sergio Cammariere (born 15 November 1960 in Crotone, Italy) is an Italian jazz singer-songwriter. He has released ten albums. Career After a long career as a niche musician distinguished by his collaboration with the poet and singer-songwriter Roberto Kunstler, in 2003 he appeared at the Sanremo Festival performing the song ''Tutto quello che un uomo''. He came in third place in this contest and won the Mia Martini Critics Award. His music video "Sorella Mia" won a prize at the Fandango "Videoclipped The Radio Stars" festival. His music can be classified as jazz and Cammariere performs on the piano and sings. Cammariere is a distant cousin of Italian singer-songwriter Rino Gaetano Salvatore Antonio "Rino" Gaetano (29 October 1950 – 2 June 1981) was an Italian musician and singer-songwriter. He is famous for his satirical songs and oblique yet incisive political commentary. He is remembered for his raspy voice, for the he .... Discography Singles * 1998 – ''Tempo perd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Bonafede
Salvatore Bonafede (born August 4, 1962) is an Italian composer and pianist. Early life Son of jewellers, Bonafede was born in Palermo on 4 August 1962. He started playing the piano at the age of four and became interested in jazz thanks to his father, Antonino Bonafede, a self-taught jazz pianist and a follower of Erroll Garner. His early experiences date back to the early 1970s at the Brass Group Jazz Club in Palermo, Italy playing in jam sessions with Dexter Gordon, Joe Albany, Woody Shaw, Irio De Paola and Giorgio Gaslini. In 1973 he made his first engagement as a jazz pianist in the Italian National Television Rai 1 program Sapere: Jazz in Italy conducted by Franco Cerri, followed by his participation in the television programs Chitarra and Fagotto (Rai 2, 1975), in which he performed with the RAI television orchestra, and Di Jazz in Jazz (Rai 2, 1978). He studied classical music at the Conservatory of Palermo from 1974 to 1981, where he currently holds the chair in jazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Bollani
Stefano Bollani (born 5 December 1972) is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter. He has worked with such musicians as Gato Barbieri, Chick Corea, Bill Frisell, Sol Gabetta, Richard Galliano, Egberto Gismonti, Lee Konitz, Bobby McFerrin, Pat Metheny, Caetano Veloso, Phil Woods, Hector Zazou and has recorded more than 15 albums with trumpeter Enrico Rava. Bollani has performed with several symphonic orchestras (Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, among others) and with directors such as Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Harding, Kristjan Järvi, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda and Antonio Pappano. He has also played with Italian pop-rock artists and has participated in and hosted TV and radio shows. Currently, he has published 49 albums alone (31 studio). Biography Early life Born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
