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Dan Kinzelman

Dan Kinzelman was born and raised in the United States but has been living in Italy since 2005.

He quickly rose to prominence on the Italian scene, joining the band of Italian trumpet legend Enrico Rava where he worked as soloist, arranger and musical director, and collaborating with emerging talents of his own generation such as Giovanni Guidi, Simone Graziano and William Tatge.

His work is characterized by a strongly irreverent streak, mixing a profound knowledge of jazz history with a voracious appetite for risk and sonic exploration. His projects are difficult to categorize, often combining wildly distant musical languages into something disquieting but at the same time seductive, their aesthetic coherence deriving paradoxically from the extreme contrasts between the elements at play.

He is a central figure in Italy’s flowering creative music scene, highly in demand both as a bandleader and as a soloist. His bands have performed at many of the most important music festivals and clubs in Europe and the USA, including Umbria Jazz (Italy), Treibhaus (Austria), Ausland (DE), Novi Sad Jazz Festival (Serbia), Jazz in Bess (Switzerland), Skylark Chicago (USA), Juttutupa (Finland), to name but a few.

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Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige 2023 - Seconda parte

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Alto Adige Bolzano, Altre Sedi 30.6-9.7.2023 La nuova fase del Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige, con l'avvicendamento quest'anno alla direzione artistica, passata da Klaus Widmann a tre suoi giovani e collaudati collaboratori, è avvenuta nel segno della continuità. Si è mantenuta la proposta per tanti versi vincente, che ha caratterizzato gli ultimi tre lustri, con più di cinquanta concerti, spalmati in dieci giorni, collocati non solo nei teatri e nelle piazze, ma dentro le cornici più varie ...

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Ghost Horse: Il bene comune

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Tre anni dopo Trojan, il disco d'esordio, e dopo la documentazione dal vivo con Live at Area Sismica, torna Ghost Horse, estensione del “trio delle meraviglie" Hobby Horse, i componenti del quale firmano le sette composizioni di questo nuovo disco che conserva lo spirito collettivo del precedente lavoro, forse dando perfino più compattezza al suono, complice un generale clima narrativo, a momenti perfino meditativo. L'apertura è affidata a un brano di Dan Kinzelman, titolare poi anche delle ultime ...

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Alessandro Bosetti: Didone

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For the past twenty years or so, Alessandro Bosetti's music has been connected to art. Sure, music is an art form, but his music is more like sculpture. Whether his source materials are radio broadcasts, spoken words, or field recordings, he repurposes sound as objects. These building blocks are recast into new forms. Think of Picasso combining a bicycle saddle and handlebars, and turning them into a bull's head, or even subsequent reinterpretations of Marcel Duchamp's readymade urinal.

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Stefano Tamborrino: Seacup

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Seacup nasce dalla profonda e sincera esigenza, da parte del batterista fiorentino Stefano Tamborrino, di allargare la propria tavolozza, i propri orizzonti espressivi e artistici, mettendo in scena un organico con quattro archi. Il contrabbasso, invece del secondo violino di un quartetto d'archi classico, compie la somma. Dal lavoro scaturisce uno Stefano Tamborrino inedito e lontano da una facile collocazione, che lavora sulla composizione, ponendosi su un crinale tra generi, stili e approcci differenti, giungendo a un risultato che non ...

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European Jazz Conference 2019 in Novara

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Photos of the European Jazz Conference 2019 held in Novara, Italy, from September 11th to 15th. The Italian Showcase Festival and Fringe Program featured performances by the Franco D'Andrea's Octet, Gianluca Petrella Cosmic Renaissance, Filippo Vignato, Eloisa Manera, Roberto Ottaviano, Dan Kinzelman and Hobby Horse, Rosa brunello, Camilla Battaglia, Piero Bittolo Bon's Bread & Fox, Ludovica Manzo and Alessandra Bossa's O-Janà, Mirko Signorile, Raffaele Casarano, Francesco Chiapperini, Marco Colonna, XY ...

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Dan Kinzelman: Stream of Consciousness

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U.S. born saxophonist and clarinetist Dan Kinzelman first moved to Italy in 2005 and over the last decade has grown to become an ever-present figure in Italy's flowering underground jazz scene thanks to his central role in some of the country's most interesting and original projects: leader of Dan Kinzelman's Ghost, co-founder of collective trio Hobby Horse and its recent expansion into a sextet (Ghost Horse), he is also active as a sideman with projects like the Francesco Ponticelli Quartet ...

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Dan Kinzelman: flusso di coscienza

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Dan Kinzelman, sassofonista e clarinettista statunitense da oltre un decennio residente in Italia, è ormai parte del panorama jazzistico nazionale ed è anche tra i suoi artisti più apprezzati, vuoi per le eclettiche e sorprendenti doti di strumentista, vuoi perché anima alcune delle più interessanti proposte del nostro jazz, dal trio collettivo Hobby Horse al suo quartetto Dan Kinzelman's Ghost, da Frontal di Simone Graziano fino al recente sestetto Ghost Horse. All About Jazz: Sei americano, ma ormai ...

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Il bene comune

Hora Records
2022

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Didone

Kohlhaas
2021

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Seacup

Tuk Music
2020

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Why Don't You Go...

Wide Ear Records
2015

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Eponymous

Self Produced
2013

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