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Caterina Palazzi

ENGLISH BIO [Italian bio below]

Caterina Palazzi (1982) is an Italian double bass player.

Caterina Palazzi was born in Rome and she become known on the punk/rock scene as a guitar player of the Barbie Killers band.

From 2000 she comes closer to jazz, while attending the DAMS University (Arts, Music and Show). From 2002 she attends the professional course at Saint Louis College of Music of Rome.

She is the leader and composer of the jazz/noise band Sudoku Killer, which features a live concert activity of over 600 concerts all over Europe, and which recorded Sudoku Killer (ZdM 2010), Infanticide (Auand Records 2015) and Asperger (Clean Feed 2018).

For the 2010 Italian prestigious press poll JAZZIT AWARD Caterina Palazzi was awarded as best Italian composer, her album Sudoku Killer was awarded as second best Italian CD and her group ranked as 4th best Italian band. In addition, from 2010 to 2015 she was voted as best new talent on the other important Italian jazz Prize, TOP JAZZ, awarded by the Musica Jazz magazine.

She recently created an audiovisual project "Zaleska", a sort of lonely funeral orchestra, every musical composition of which is inspired by an actor who has impersonated Dracula in movies.

She played with Stefano Bollani, Gianluca Petrella, Roberto Gatto, Maurizio Giammarco, Mirko Guerrini, Israel Varela, Luca Aquino, Masayoshi Takanaka and she shared stages with Uzeda, Zu, Zeni Geva.

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In Pictures

Isole che parlano 2021

Read "Isole che parlano 2021" reviewed by Luciano Rossetti


A collection of photos from the Isole che parlano in Palau and others villages of Gallura from September 9 to 13, 2021 featuring Caterina Palazzi and Sudoku Killer, Valeria Sturba, Vincenzo Vasi, Redi Hasa, Gavino Murgia and others. ...

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Interview

Caterina Palazzi: il lato oscuro del jazz

Read "Caterina Palazzi: il lato oscuro del jazz" reviewed by Daniele Vogrig


Lucida, oscura, intrigante. Sono le immediate sensazioni percepite nel corso di una lunga chiacchierata con Caterina Palazzi intorno alla sua musica, ai suoi progetti, alle sue passioni. La contrabbassista romana si è imposta nel corso degli anni come una figura di spicco nel panorama jazzistico (e non solo) internazionale, sulla scorta di un variegatissimo background musicale sapientemente modellato all'insegna di un linguaggio inedito e accattivante. Uno stile, il suo, lugubre e per certi aspetti controverso ma proprio per questo capace ...

Album Review

Caterina Palazzi Sudoku Killer: Infanticide

Read "Infanticide" reviewed by Luca Muchetti


Vedi alla voce “oggetti musicali non identificati." La contrabbassista romana Caterina Palazzi torna a cinque anni di distanza dalla sua prima uscita discografica con la formazione Sudoku Killer sotto le insegne di Auand Records e con cinque violentissime tracce nelle quali il jazz (specie di marca nordica) convive con la psichedelia, il post-rock, il rumorismo e la musica sperimentale. Un album violento fin dal titolo, dove l'Infanticide a cui la formazione si riferisce è certamente rappresentazione ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Infanticide

Auand Records
2015

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