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Premio Internazionale Massimo Urbani 2023

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Premio Internazionale Massimo Urbani 2023 Camerino Auditorium Benedetto XIII 1-2.7.2023 Trent'anni fa, il 23 giugno 1993, moriva Massimo Urbani, nella disperata solitudine di una Roma d'inizio estate. Trent'anni compie ora Massimo Amadori, nato a Bologna un paio di settimane dopo, figlio del sassofonista e di Valentina Amadori. Massimo Jr, assieme allo zio Maurizio Urbani, tenorista e fratello minore del più famoso contraltista, sono ormai una presenza abituale al Premio Internazionale Massimo Urbani, ...

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European Jazz Conference 2019

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 European Jazz Conference 2019 Various Venues jny: Novara, Italy September 12-15, 2019 For its sixth edition the European Jazz Conference dropped anchor in sunny Italy. Where Rome or Milan might have been more obvious locations for such a high- powered international gathering, the baton instead passed to Novara, in the Piedmont region of Italy's North-West. Novara, however, has jazz pedigree of its own, being ...

Album Review

Massimo Urbani: Live in Chieti 1979

Read "Live in Chieti 1979" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


Ci sono dischi capaci di restituire tutta la forza ammaliante del jazz e la sua misteriosa energia fatta di swing, comunicativa, capacità di trasmettere profonde emozioni racchiuse nell'attimo fuggente di appassionanti giochi solistici. A questa schiera di pubblicazioni appartiene senza dubbio Live in Chieti 1979, risalente alla fase iniziale della carriera artistica di Massimo Urbani. A fianco del ben più esperto Franco D'Andrea, il ventiduenne sassofonista sfoggia una pronuncia incisiva ed una volatile verve solistica nel ricreare ...

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Profile

Remembering Saxophonist Massimo Urbani

Read "Remembering Saxophonist Massimo Urbani" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Massimo Urbani was born in Primavalle, Rome on May 8, 1957. He was the eldest of five sons from a lower middle class family. Urbani's interest in music emerged when he was six, when he attended concerts presented by local bands appearing in his neighborhood. The young Urbani was also amply exposed to a variety of music on frequent visits to his father's hometown of Camerata.In 1968, Urbani took up his first musical instrument, the clarinet. He played ...


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