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Federico Casagrande

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Paris based jazz guitarist Federico Casagrande started in early age the study of classical music in Italy. In 2003 he moved on a scholarship to Boston, U.s.a., where he attended the Berklee College of Music and graduated summa cum laude in 2006. He studied with Giampaolo Gobbo, Sandro Gibellini, Tommaso Lama, Dave Tronzo, Mick Goodrick, Rick Peckham, Greg Hopkins, Jeff Galindo, Garrison Fewell, Dave Santoro, Hal Crook, Ed Tomassi In 2007 he won the first prize at the Gibson Montreux Jazz Festival Guitar Competition with George Benson president of the jury. He performed in Italy, U.S.A., Canada, Denmark, Austria, Estonia, Lettonia, Portugal, Switzerland, France, U.K., China. He leads his own trio performing original composition. He is co-leader of a duo with London based trumpet player Fulvio Sigurta’ and of a quartet with portugese vibraphonist Jeff Davis. He performs also in solo focusing on extemporary compositions, often collaborating with dancer Laura Moro or interacting with other forms of art. He works as well as a sideman in various jazz groups in Europe.

Album

Jokers

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: This Is The New Shit; Salsa Fake; River; Les Larmes de Syr; Circus of Light; Copy of A; Twilight; Heimdall; Ninna Nanna.

Article: Live Review

Sesto Jazz 2022

Read "Sesto Jazz 2022" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Sesto Jazz 2022 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) Giardino del Teatro della Limonaia 8-10.7.2022 L'edizione 2022 di Sesto Jazz, ormai tradizionale festival organizzato dalla Scuola di Musica Bruno Bartoletti di Sesto Fiorentino con la collaborazione di Music Pool, ha conservato la collocazione estiva impostasi lo scorso anno per ragioni legate ...

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Article: Album Review

Vincent Peirani: Jokers

Read "Jokers" reviewed by Jim Worsley


In the early 1970s, jazz and rock intersected, and fusion was spawned. In the new millennium, fusion and progressive rock are sometimes bopping down the same road. Music can easily get slotted into one category or another, and of consequence can just as easily be missed. Vincent Peirani's dynamic new recording Jokers, is a fine example ...

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Article: In Pictures

Seminari Siena Jazz 2021, Part 2-2

Read "Seminari Siena Jazz 2021, Part 2-2" reviewed by Luciano Rossetti


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Article: In Pictures

Seminari Siena Jazz 2021, Part 1-2

Read "Seminari Siena Jazz 2021, Part 1-2" reviewed by Luciano Rossetti


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Article: Live Review

Siena Jazz 2021

Read "Siena Jazz 2021" reviewed by Serena Antinucci


Durante una chiacchierata con il contrabbassista Paolino Dalla Porta e il batterista Fabrizio Sferra, alla fine della mia permanenza alla cinquantunesima edizione dei Seminari Estivi Internazionali di Siena Jazz, ho capito cosa significhi davvero vivere il jazz. Le lezioni si sono appena concluse e ci ritroviamo nell'atrio della Fortezza Medicea (sede della scuola), prima ...

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Article: Album Review

Antoine Karacostas: Insulary Tales

Read "Insulary Tales" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Paris based pianist Antoine Karacostas may have set out to write the music for Insulary Tales to evoke the idea of insularity and one's individual response to the natural world around them, but in the end he's created an emotional, ten song cycle universal to us all. A recording of hushed, sustained beauty and ...

Article: My Playlist

Rosa Brunello

Read "Rosa Brunello" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


01. Radiohead -A Moon Shaped Pool -(XL Recordings -2016). Meditativo, quasi ipnotico. Perfetto per un viaggio in treno. 02. Carmen Consoli -Stato di necessità -(Polydor -2000). Dopo qualche tempo che non la ascoltavo, sono stata recentemente ad un concerto di Carmen Consoli. Così mi è venuta voglia di ri-ascoltare Stato di ...

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Enrico Pieranunzi, Federico Casagrande: Double Circle

Read "Double Circle" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


L'incontro tra la chitarra acustica e il pianoforte è sempre molto affascinante, oltre a essere anche piuttosto raro (qui in Italia, vanno ricordati quelli di Giancarlo Mazzù con Luciano Troja). Il duetto documentato su questo CD ha la particolarità di essere l'incontro anche di due diverse generazioni di musicisti jazz italiani, visto che al piano siede ...


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