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BIOGRAPHY Antonio Gentile born in Florence on April, 6th, 1961 and starts to play percussion at the age of 16. He starts to study Afrocuban percussion together with Karl Potter. He studies music theory with Bruno Tommaso and starts playing jazz on the 80's. In fact at the age of 20 he becames a professional musician playing either jazz or latin music or pop or classical. He meets the Peruvian singer and percussionist Manuel Bramon and knows the Afro Peruvian tipical instrument called cajon. At the same time he studies the Afro-brasilian and the Afro-colombian music as well the west African drumming with the African master Assane Adissa

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World Two

By Antonio Gentile

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Released: 2004
Track listing: Eastern Tear; Dumbo

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Antonio Gentile/Franco Baggiani: World Two

by John Kelman
March 24, 2004

Percussion-centric records are not new, but they are somewhat rare. Nana Vasconcelos has released a number of fine recordings where his percussion takes a front-and-centre position. But the difference between Vasconcelos and percussionist Antonio Gentile, who teams up with trumpeter Franco Baggiani on World Two , is that Vasconcelos coaxes an incredibly rich variety of sounds ...

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