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Enzo Lanzo
He began playing at a very early age as a self-taught musician. Later, he studied singing, piano, and percussion at a local music school. He went on to pursue advanced studies with masters such as Enrico Rava, Roberto Gatto, Jon Christensen, Pierre Favre, Paul Bley, and Gary Peacock. Initially influenced by Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones, and Art Blakey, he later drew inspiration from Roy Haynes and Jack DeJohnette, as well as European drummers like Günter Sommer, Tony Oxley, and Paul Lovens. Through his sound research, he strives for a new fusion of improvised music. Lanzo debut took place in 1992 with Enrico Rava’s group, a pivotal experience that introduced him to the European scene. In 1996, he released his debut album, "Rondonella Project," under the British label Leo Records. This work highlights the core elements of his music: a constantly evolving melody that achieves a unique balance between folk and jazz traditions. He has collaborated with artists such as Dave Murray, Danilo Rea, Gianluigi Trovesi, Ernst Reijseger, Roberto Ottaviano, Stefano Bollani, Dado Moroni, Ira Coleman, Rita Marcotulli, Enzo Pietropaoli, and Gary Smulyan. His career has taken him across the globe, performing in Europe, Indonesia, India, the USA, Africa, China, Australia, Cuba, and Japan.

Livio Bartolo
Guitarist and composer active across multiple fronts of the jazz scene, with a particular focus on contemporary music. He graduated with honors in Jazz Guitar and Jazz Music from the "N. Rota" Conservatory in Monopoli, defending a thesis on the compositional techniques of Henry Threadgill. His guitar and compositional style is rooted in the jazz tradition, while venturing into radical improvisation, dodecaphony, and serialism. He trained under Gianni Lenoci, Giovanni Tommaso, Marc Ducret, and Steve Potts, and took part in the "Feral Choir" led by the British avant-garde vocalist Phil Minton. He has performed at the Blue Note in Milan and contributed to the soundtrack of the award-winning film "La strada verso casa" by Samuele Rossi. He has performed at the Casa del Jazz in Rome with Gianni Lenoci’s Hocus Pocus Explab alongside Eugenio Colombo, Tiziana Felle, and Angela Tursi. He continues to explore new sonic frontiers with Lenoci’s Hocus Pocus ensemble. His collaborations include Francesco Cusa’s “Naked Musicians,” and he has worked with Giancarlo Schiaffini, Roberto Ottaviano, and Silvia Bolognesi as part of the Rec collective (Conduction Festival). He is the leader of the Variable Unit, which boasts four record releases. His latest album, "Start From Scratch" (published by Dodicilune), was selected among the best albums of the year in the "Top Jazz" rankings by the specialized magazine Musica Jazz.

Louis Sclavis
Highly active on the international scene, he has collaborated with key figures of French jazz, including Michel Portal, Henri Texier, and Didier Levallet. In 1980-81, he performed with Chris McGregor’s South African ensemble, Brotherhood of Breath. He formed his first group, “Tour de France,” featuring six musicians from various regions of France (Gérard Siracusa, Yves Robert, Beñat Achiary, Philippe Deschepper, Michel Doneda, and Alain Gibert). Furthermore, his growing penchant for collaboration has led him to work over the years with Tony Oxley, Evan Parker, John Lindberg, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, and Cecil Taylor. He is renowned for the originality of his improvisations and the intensity of his sound. His quartet with Bruno Chevillon, Christian Ville, and François Raulin—later expanded with the addition of Dominique Pifarély—earned him public acclaim in 1988 with the album China (1987), leading the Jazz Academy to name him "Musician of the Year" and award him the Django Reinhardt Prize. Supported by the German label ECM, Sclavis constantly explores new paths marked by continuous encounters: Ernst Reijseger, Jim Black, Dino Saluzzi, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Fred Frith, Aki Takase, Dave Douglas, and his mentor, Michel Portal. These are "places," as he likes to call them, within a single territory whose exploration he pursues until he feels the need for change. His music thus takes on a strong chamber dimension, focusing on the combination of instrumental timbres and improvisational cues. On the clarinet, he distinguishes himself through the nuances of his tone and a wide range of techniques (open keys, slap, growl). Sclavis’s work is driven by a sense of urgency, oscillating between tension and power.

Claudio Monteverdi: (b Cremona, 15 May 1567; d Venice, 29 Nov 1643). Italian composer. The most important musician in late 16th- and early 17th-century Italy, he excelled in nearly all the major genres of the period. His nine books of madrigals consolidated the achievement of the late Renaissance masters and cultivated new aesthetic and stylistic paradigms for the musical Baroque. In his operas for Mantua and Venice he took the experiments of the Florentines and developed powerful ways of expressing and structuring musical drama. His three major collections of liturgical and devotional music transcend the merely functional, exploiting a rich panoply of text-expressive and contrapuntal-structural techniques. Although he composed little or no independent instrumental music, his writing for instruments was genuinely innovative. Schrade’s famous assessment (1950) of Monteverdi as ‘creator of modern music’ may be exaggerated, but his significant place in music history is assured

Enzo Lanzo
Drums, Cymbals, Music, Arrangements

He began playing at a very early age as a self-taught musician. Later, he studied singing, piano, and percussion at a local music school. He went on to pursue advanced studies with masters such as Enrico Rava, Roberto Gatto, Jon Christensen, Pierre Favre, Paul Bley, and Gary Peacock. Initially influenced by Max Roach, Philly Joe Jones, and Art Blakey, he later drew inspiration from Roy Haynes and Jack DeJohnette, as well as European drummers like Günter Sommer, Tony Oxley, and Paul Lovens. Through his sound research, he strives for a new fusion of improvised music. Lanzo debut took place in 1992 with Enrico Rava’s group, a pivotal experience that introduced him to the European scene. In 1996, he released his debut album, "Rondonella Project," under the British label Leo Records. This work highlights the core elements of his music: a constantly evolving melody that achieves a unique balance between folk and jazz traditions. He has collaborated with artists such as Dave Murray, Danilo Rea, Gianluigi Trovesi, Ernst Reijseger, Roberto Ottaviano, Stefano Bollani, Dado Moroni, Ira Coleman, Rita Marcotulli, Enzo Pietropaoli, and Gary Smulyan. His career has taken him across the globe, performing in Europe, Indonesia, India, the USA, Africa, China, Australia, Cuba, and Japan.

Livio Bartolo
Electric Guitar

Guitarist and composer active across multiple fronts of the jazz scene, with a particular focus on contemporary music. He graduated with honors in Jazz Guitar and Jazz Music from the "N. Rota" Conservatory in Monopoli, defending a thesis on the compositional techniques of Henry Threadgill. His guitar and compositional style is rooted in the jazz tradition, while venturing into radical improvisation, dodecaphony, and serialism. He trained under Gianni Lenoci, Giovanni Tommaso, Marc Ducret, and Steve Potts, and took part in the "Feral Choir" led by the British avant-garde vocalist Phil Minton. He has performed at the Blue Note in Milan and contributed to the soundtrack of the award-winning film "La strada verso casa" by Samuele Rossi. He has performed at the Casa del Jazz in Rome with Gianni Lenoci’s Hocus Pocus Explab alongside Eugenio Colombo, Tiziana Felle, and Angela Tursi. He continues to explore new sonic frontiers with Lenoci’s Hocus Pocus ensemble. His collaborations include Francesco Cusa’s “Naked Musicians,” and he has worked with Giancarlo Schiaffini, Roberto Ottaviano, and Silvia Bolognesi as part of the Rec collective (Conduction Festival). He is the leader of the Variable Unit, which boasts four record releases. His latest album, "Start From Scratch" (published by Dodicilune), was selected among the best albums of the year in the "Top Jazz" rankings by the specialized magazine Musica Jazz.

Louis Sclavis
Bass Clarinet

Highly active on the international scene, he has collaborated with key figures of French jazz, including Michel Portal, Henri Texier, and Didier Levallet. In 1980-81, he performed with Chris McGregor’s South African ensemble, Brotherhood of Breath. He formed his first group, “Tour de France,” featuring six musicians from various regions of France (Gérard Siracusa, Yves Robert, Beñat Achiary, Philippe Deschepper, Michel Doneda, and Alain Gibert). Furthermore, his growing penchant for collaboration has led him to work over the years with Tony Oxley, Evan Parker, John Lindberg, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, and Cecil Taylor. He is renowned for the originality of his improvisations and the intensity of his sound. His quartet with Bruno Chevillon, Christian Ville, and François Raulin—later expanded with the addition of Dominique Pifarély—earned him public acclaim in 1988 with the album China (1987), leading the Jazz Academy to name him "Musician of the Year" and award him the Django Reinhardt Prize. Supported by the German label ECM, Sclavis constantly explores new paths marked by continuous encounters: Ernst Reijseger, Jim Black, Dino Saluzzi, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Fred Frith, Aki Takase, Dave Douglas, and his mentor, Michel Portal. These are "places," as he likes to call them, within a single territory whose exploration he pursues until he feels the need for change. His music thus takes on a strong chamber dimension, focusing on the combination of instrumental timbres and improvisational cues. On the clarinet, he distinguishes himself through the nuances of his tone and a wide range of techniques (open keys, slap, growl). Sclavis’s work is driven by a sense of urgency, oscillating between tension and power.

Paul Motian (March 25, 1931 – November 22, 2011) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer who helped free the drummer from strict time-keeping duties.