Born in 1962 in Turin, Italy, Simone Guiducci, guitarist and composer, has been hailed as one of the most talented musicians on the Italian jazz scene since the early '90s, going on to make several internationally acclaimed recordings as leader.
Four releases by SIMONE GUIDUCCI GRAMELOT produced by Felmay: the debut album CANTADOR (2000), CHORALE (with Ralph Alessi, Chris Speed, Erik Friedlander) DANCIN' ROOTS (2004), featuring Ralph Alessi and Don Byron as guests, and the new release STORIE DI FIUME (October 2006)
With a focus on a creative dialogue between folklore themes and jazz improvisation, Guiducci has forged strong ties with the recording and concert worlds, working with Enrico Rava, Gianni Coscia, Paolo Fresu, Gianluigi Trovesi and other leading international artists including Ralph Alessi, Chris Speed, Erik Friedlander, Don Byron and Andy Milne.
Simone Guiducci has performed at major festivals in Italy. In 2005 and 2006 Simone toured the world playing in Buenos Aires and Cordoba (Argentina), Ankara (Turkey), Lima (Peru), Stochkolm (Sweden), Helsinky (Finland), Amsterdam (Holland),Quito and Guayaquil (Ecuador), Caracas (Venezuela), Mexico City (Mexico), Dublin (Ireland), Guatemala City and Antigua (Guatemala), Lyon and Nantes (France) and more.
As one well known critic puts it, GRAMELOT's folk-jazz is “fluid and free, rippling between jazz, classical and popular music, between regional and global, between the ancient and modern world. It is a language of jazz improvisation interwoven with popular melodies, spoken with an ease and grace. It is many 'languages', spoken as musical expressions or idioms, which come together in a world where the imagination shapes them into new and old forms that are always intriguing”.
Guiducci has received acclaim both from Italian critics, who voted him second in Top Jazz's classification of emerging talents in Italy, and from abroad, with reviews in leading specialist magazines including JAZZMAN (France), ALL ABOUT JAZZ (USA), CADENCE (USA), JAZZMAGAZINE (France) and JAZZLIVE (Austria).
CHORALE came in at number six in the 2002 best jazz record top ten, voted by the panel of critics judging in the TOPJAZZ classification of the specialist monthly magazine Musica Jazz. The recording was also “Pick of the Week “ on the prestigious US portal ALL ABOUT JAZZ.com (February 2003) and hit no. 2 (July 2003) in the JazzCharts of the KSZU radio station (Stanford University).
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