Results for "Peppe Merolla"

Peppe Merolla

Born: December 2, 1969

Giuseppe "Peppe" Merolla has been a musician since he was a child.

Peppe began his musical career as a drummer, singer, and actor at the age of five.Peppe performed and toured with his parents, Tina Barone and Gino Morelli, who are still professional singers and actors.The Merolla family performed in theatres and festivals throughout Italy, Canada, and the United States. With his family,Peppe recorded his first albums as a singer and a drummer as well as worked as actors on many television shows. While playing a concert in New York City,Peppe and his family were the opening act for the legendary Frank Sinatra. Mr. Sinatra was so impressed with Peppe's talent that he nicknamed him "Little Joe." At the age of 14, Zeus records signed Peppe to a three-record contract as a singer under the name of "Little Joe"

Stick With Me

By Peppe Merolla

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: Naples; Ferris Wheel; Junior; Marbella; A Cry for Understanding; Crazy; Mozzin'; Princess of the Mountain; One for Bud.

Peppe Merolla: Stick with Me

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 16, 2010

Curiosa la storia di Peppe Merolla. Cresciuto in una famiglia di artisti, si è cimentato nel doppio ruolo di attore e musicista, registrando alcuni lavori come cantante - con il nick di Little Joe -, dedicandosi in seguito alla tromba nell'orchestra di Claudio Simonetti, fino a dar sfogo all'amore per la batteria. Passione che si è ...

Peppe Merolla: Stick With Me

by Raul d'Gama Rose
April 20, 2010

Although Stick With Me is a simple, straight ahead album, it is fresh and full of wonderful twists and turns. The very first track says, “expect the unexpected," when “Naples," opens with a splash of cymbals, the rolling thunder of mallets on tympanis and Steve Turre calling plaintively on his trademark shells, and then it's a ...

Peppe Merolla: Stick with Me

by Edward Blanco
March 29, 2010

Peppe Merolla may not be a familiar name to most jazz audiences but a sampling of Stick with Me, his stellar debut as a leader, may well serve to change that fact. Born in Italy and hailing from an artistic family of actors and singers, Giuseppe “Peppe" Merolla followed in the family tradition doing a little ...

Italian Jazz: Peppe Merolla

by Nick Catalano
March 26, 2010

The international jazz scene has been a major focus in recent editions of this column. This month we turn to Italy. The emergence of Italian jazz has long been felt in the U.S. primarily through the word-of-mouth exchanges that emanate from American musicians who have worked in Italian jazz festivals such as those in Umbria, Pisa ...

Peppe Merolla: Stick With Me

by Bruce Lindsay
March 22, 2010

Stick With Me is percussionist Peppe Merolla's first album as leader with this sextet of excellent New York-based musicians, and his involving and imaginative playing takes them through a set of tunes with a distinct hard bop flavor. Merolla's musical history includes a recording career in his native Italy as teenage singing sensation “Little Joe" but ...

Lounging Around Redux

By Ron Kaplan

Label: Kapland Records
Released: 2006