Federico Casagrande (born 27 February 1980 in
Treviso
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jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...
guitarist.
Career
Casagrande graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 2006. In 2007 he won first prize in the
Montreux Jazz Festival
The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annual ...
guitar competition. He has released at least ten albums as leader or co-leader and has been described by ''The Irish Times'' as a "rising star of the younger generation
f European jazz musicians
Discography
* ''Conversations'' with Fulvio Sigurta (Impossible Ark, 2009)
* ''Hypercube'' with Marco Bucelli (2011)
* ''The Ancient Battle of the Invisible'' (
CAM Jazz, 2012)
* ''At the End of the Day'' (CAM Jazz, 2015)
* ''Double Circle'' with Enrico Pieranunzi (CAM Jazz, 2015)
* ''Fast Forward'' (CAM Jazz, 2017)
* ''Lost Songs'' with Francesco Bearzatti (CAM Jazz, 2018)
External links
Official site
References
1980 births
Living people
21st-century guitarists
21st-century Italian male musicians
Berklee College of Music alumni
Italian jazz guitarists
Italian male guitarists
Male jazz musicians
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