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Description
Franco D’Andrea is one of the most important musicians of the Italian jazz scene. His successful career is studded with awards achieved in Italy, Europe and all over the world.
His piano-playing has been widely appreciated by many American musicians who performed with him, people like Lee Konitz, Phil Woods and others.
His personal style, easily recognizable, is the result of decades spent in getting more and more into improvised music and jazz.
D’Andrea is also a prolific composer. In his countless compositions he has explored structures and languages never giving up melodic and harmonic elements.
Aldo Mella, D’Andrea’s bass-player for 23 years, strongly fascinated by his master’s compositions, listening and watching them from a different point of view, recently wondered how they would sound like if played by a quartet. Therefore he thought to involve in his project three other musicians who had a high artistic profile and proven experience : Francesco Bearzatti on clarinet, Alessandro Chiappetta on guitar and Elio Rivagli on drums.
The four musicians, in full agreement with each other, were able to perform a series of good sounding tunes and a captivating and fluid sonic blend between guitar and clarinet.
The aim of the project is to give a new life and a new look to a sequence of very good compositions without upsetting their primary appeal.
Flavio Caprera © 2023
Artist(s)
Aldo Mella plays double bass, electric bass, and is also a composer and arranger. He began his musical career at a very young age, starting with guitar before moving on to electric bass. Fascinated by jazz music, he eventually purchased his first double bass and made music his primary activity. Completely self-taught, he gained experience through live performances that led him to play with numerous musicians from the Italian and international jazz scenes, such as Dave Douglas, Stanley Jordan, Lee Konitz, Giulio Capiozzo, Gene Bertoncini, Steven Berstein, Kenwood Dennard, Ivan Lins, Bireli Lagrene, Han Bennink, among others. In 1996, he met the pianist Franco D'Andrea, considered one of the most important jazz piano players internationally, with whom he collaborates currently and has recorded 15 CDs, receiving recognition from prestigious jazz magazines. He has recorded around fifty albums, including seven as a leader, and has participated in over 300 concerts in Italy's most important jazz festivals and theaters, as well as in Australia, Russia, Spain, Indonesia, France, and Serbia.
Alessandro Chiappetta is a guitarist and composer. He has participated in numerous seminars with famous guitarists such as Jim Hall, Scott Henderson, Joe Diorio, Mick Goodrick, and John Scofield. Chiappetta has collaborated with various artists such as Andrea Aiace Ayassot, Enzo Zirilli, Luigi Bonafede, Andrea Allione, Ellade Bandini, Fabrizio Bosso, Miroslav Vitous, Gianluca Petrella, Rob Sudduth, Tineke Postma, George Garzone, Roberto Gatto, Larry Goldings, Alex Garnett, Quentin Collins, Riccardo Zegna, Paolo Fresu, Daniele Di Bonaventura, Alberto Tafuri, Ares Tavolazzi, Misha Mullov Abbado, and Rob Luft. In 2005, he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 2009, he won the Moncalieri Jazz Festival contest. He has recorded under his own name for the Philology Jazz Records label.
Elio Rivagli plays drums and percussion. Born on June 12, 1959, after attending the trumpet course at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin, he began his studies in Italy and later traveled to the United States to deepen his knowledge. In 1985, he joined the Symphony Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin as a percussionist. He has participated in numerous albums and tours with great Italian and international musicians, including Eros Ramazzotti, Mia Martini, Ivano Fossati, Claudio Baglioni, Fabrizio De Andrè, Miyazawa Kazufumi, Justin Haward (Moody Blues), Jesus Vasquez, Alejandro Sanz, Graham Gouldman, Art Garfunkel, among others. Since 2013, he has been a member of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra for concerts organized by the tenor Joseph Calleja, accompanying internationally renowned artists such as Leona Lewis, Rebecca Ferguson, Zucchero, Anastacia, Claudio Baglioni, Susan Vega, and Andrea Bocelli. He has also contributed to the soundtracks of movies such as "Siberian Education" by Mauro Pagani-Gabriele Salvatores and, most recently, "The Hateful Eight" by Quentin Tarantino.
Francesco Bearzatti graduated in clarinet at the Udine Conservatory and furthered his studies at Jazz Mobile in New York with George Coleman. In 2003, he was voted best new talent at the top jazz event by the specialized magazine Musica Jazz. In the 2009 Musica Jazz top jazz referendum, he won the award for instrumentalist of the year in the reed section. In 2010, his album "x (suite for malcolm)" was awarded best album of the year at Top Jazz 2010 and best album in Italy by Jazzitaward. He won best reed instrument in the 2011 Musica Jazz referendum and best tenor sax jazz it awards. In 2011, he released the album "Monknroll" for CAMJazz, which was a huge success in France and led to a worldwide tour. Four years later, he released "This Machine Kills Facists," a tribute to Woody Ghutrie, and in October 2020, he released the album "Zorro" for CamJazz. In 2022, the album "Potrait of Tony" (Parco della Musica Records), dedicated to the clarinetist, saxophonist, and pianist of Sicilian origin Tony Scott, was released.
Composer(s)
Franco D’Andrea is one of the most important musicians of the Italian jazz scene. His successful career is studded with awards achieved in Italy, Europe and all over the world.
His piano-playing has been widely appreciated by many American musicians who performed with him, people like Lee Konitz, Phil Woods and others.
His personal style, easily recognizable, is the result of decades spent in getting more and more into improvised music and jazz.
D’Andrea is also a prolific composer. In his countless compositions he has explored structures and languages never giving up melodic and harmonic elements.
Aldo Mella, D’Andrea’s bass-player for 23 years, strongly fascinated by his master’s compositions, listening and watching them from a different point of view, recently wondered how they would sound like if played by a quartet. Therefore he thought to involve in his project three other musicians who had a high artistic profile and proven experience : Francesco Bearzatti on clarinet, Alessandro Chiappetta on guitar and Elio Rivagli on drums.
The four musicians, in full agreement with each other, were able to perform a series of good sounding tunes and a captivating and fluid sonic blend between guitar and clarinet.
The aim of the project is to give a new life and a new look to a sequence of very good compositions without upsetting their primary appeal.
Flavio Caprera © 2023