Roberto Ottaviano (
Bari
Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...
, 21 December 1957) is an
Italian jazz saxophonist
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...
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[Richard Cook & Brian Morton. ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD''. 6th Edition, London, Penguin, 2002. .]
Discography
* Arrigo Cappelletti/Roberto Ottaviano Quartet, ''Samashi'' (Splasc(h), 1986)
* Daniele Cavallanti Double Trio, ''The Leo'' (Red Record, 1987)
* ''Mingus: Portraits in six Colours'' (Splasc(h), 1988)
* ''Items from the Old Earth'' (Splasc(h), 1990)
* ''Above Us'' (Splasc(h), 1990)
* ''Hybrid and Hot'' (Splasc(h), 1995)
* ''Black Spirits Are Here Again'' with
Mal Waldron
Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...
(DIW, 1996)
* ''Live in Israel'' (2002)
References
1957 births
Italian jazz saxophonists
Male saxophonists
Musicians from Bari
Living people
21st-century saxophonists
21st-century Italian male musicians
Male jazz musicians
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