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Currently, several Italian music conservatories have jazz departments, there are dozens of jazz festivals each year in Italy, the best-known of which is the Umbria Jazz Festival, and there are prominent publications such as the journal, Musica Jazz. In Italy, today, it is virtually impossible to find a medium-sized city without a jazz club.
Matteo Mancuso (born 22 November 1996) is an Italian jazz and rock guitarist and composer from Palermo, Sicily.Mancuso is known for adapting a quasi-flamenco/classical right-hand technique to the electric guitar and improvised solos without the use of a pick.
Background information; Origin: Naples, Campania, Italy: Genres: Folk, jazz-rock, jazz fusion, progressive rock: Years active: 1974 () –present: Labels: Dischi Ricordi, Orizzonte, BMG Ricordi S.p.A. Members: James Senese Marco De Domenico Rino Calabritto Fredy Malfi: Past members: Franco Del Prete Mark Harris Tony Walmsley Bruno Biriaco Ciro ...
Di Battista began playing at thirteen with friends and became interested in jazz after hearing Art Pepper. In Italy he received guidance from Massimo Urbani and by his twenties Di Battista was performing in Paris. He put out his debut as a leader in 1997 and has toured with the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine. [1]
The album contains seven songs in Italian and one instrumental, characterized by an international pop music style; an early example of what today is known as 'Worldbeat'. The album's sound emphasizes acoustic, rather than electric guitar, and draws from Italian folk and Latin music as well as Jazz-Pop styles, somewhat like Steely Dan .
In 2012 he moved to New York City. [6] He became part of the Ari Roland Quartet [7] and the Chris Byars Quartet, with both of which he toured and recorded. Later that year, Pasquale was named a Jazz Ambassador for the U.S. State Department, and toured on behalf of the embassy [8] in Europe, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Lithuania, Ukraine, and other places.
The Story of How Italy Got Rid of the Greatest Jazz Clarinetist) is a 2012 Italian documentary directed by Franco Maresco. It is a documentary film about the life of the Italian-American jazz musician Anthony Joseph Sciacca , known to the public as Tony Scott , starting from his childhood and youth in the USA, until his death, following ...
Paolo Fresu (Sardinian: Pàulu; born 10 February 1961) [1] is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music. His unique trumpet sound is recognized as one of the most distinctive in the contemporary jazz scene.