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Mauro Sigura
Mauro Sigura was born in Turin. After graduating in philosophy, he began working as a musician playing guitar and bouzouki in Turin’s jazz clubs.
He performed in several festival as: DIM – OSAKA, TOKYO, Sibiu jazz Festival, Terminal Music & Arts Festival of Sombor, Nisville Jazz Festival, Santa Fiora in Musica, Octobre Musical De Carthage, Dromos Festival, European Jazz Expo, Cala Gonone Jazz Festival, Amman Jazz Festival, PETRA (Jordan) ecc.. He played in Italy, Spain, Germany, Norway, Romania, Serbia, Tunisia, Etiopia, Japan, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Jordan.
From the beginning, he has played jazz and world music.
In 2003 he began his collaboration with the folk band Vinagro, recording the album: ‘Ventu di Mari’ with a following tour around Italy.
In 2004, Mauro Sigura, with the band Vinagro, won the Greenage festival, one of the most important competitions for young musicians of the north of Italy, organized by the Maison Musique (Rivoli -Turin). In the same year, Mauro Sigura was a finalist at the EtnoFolk-Contest . In 2005, Mauro Sigura left Vinagro and moved to Sardinia, where he met the sardinian folk and jazz sound.
In December 2009 he performed live at the final days of the Andrea Parodi award. Also in 2009 he started studying oud and Turkish music. In January 2011 he joined the multiethnic orchestra of Porta Palazzo, and with the Orchestra, he recorded the sound-truck of the national TV show RADICI (RAI3) .
In 2012 Mauro Sigura started playing with the most famous italian world-music band: “Agricantus” (by Tonj Acquaviva and Rosie Wiederkehr) as musician for tour 2012-2013. With Agricantus, Mauro Sigura recorded the bouzouki and Baglama in the album “Kuntarimari.”
In 2013. Mauro Sigura met Gianfranco Fedele, Tancredi Emmi and Alessandro Cau, and they started working at the project: MAURO SIGURA QUARTET, a project that joins the sound of Mediterranean sea and the african rhythm with the atmospheres of the North european jazz. With the quartet, he released 2 albums with the label S’ardmusic -EGEA: “THE COLOUR IDENTITY” (2016) and TERRAVETRO (2020)
Mauro Sigura has won the MARIO CERVO RECORD AWARD twice (2016 and 2020), as BEST ALBUM MADE IN SARDINIA.
In 2023 He recorded the new album DUNIA with the label S’ardmusic – Egea.
On October 2nd, he performed, with the Mauro Sigura Quartet, at the archaeological site of PETRA in Jordan and then at the Amman Jazz Festival.
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Mauro Sigura: Dunia
by Chris May
The Turin-born, Sardinia-based oud and bouzouki player and composer Mauro Sigura gave us one of the most singular albums of 2020 with Terravetro (S'ard Music). Leading an acoustic group, Sigura blended Sardinian and Levantine folk musics with North European jazz. The lineup was oud/bouzouki, piano, bass, drums and, on half the tracks, trumpet. (A review can be read here.) Sigura could have continued ploughing that particular furrow productively, but on Dunia he has rung some substantial changes. ...
Continue ReadingMauro Sigura Quartet: Terra Vetro
by Chris May
Although the Italian oud player and composer Mauro Sigura bills his band as a world-jazz group which combines traditional Ottoman-Mediterranean music with modern European jazz, the band's sophomore album is not full-on, capped-up World Jazz in the manner of, say, fellow oudist Anouar Brahem's Blue Maqams (ECM, 2017). That album, made with double bassist Dave Holland, drummer Jack DeJohnette and pianist Django Bates, is founded four-square on traditional Levantine modes and structures. Sigura's work, by contrast, is lyrical European jazz ...
Continue ReadingCantus: A Harvest Home
by C. Michael Bailey
There are two major names on the block regarding male vocal ensembles: San Francisco's Chanticleer and Minneapolis' Cantus. The latter releases A Harvest Home, a collection of Autumn pastoral affairs celebrating the traditional season of Thanksgiving. This follows last year's release of Songs of a Czech: Dvorak and Janacek for Men's Voices (Cantus, 2013), a fine if narrowly focused affair. With the Christmas holiday market clotted with recordings, it made perfect sense of Cantus to branch out into the anticipatory ...
Continue Reading7 Virtual Jazz Club’s Contest 10th Edition: Winners Announced!
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Valerio Pappi
During a live streaming event, the judging panel and the finalists joined the award ceremony for the Pros & Amateurs categories. Pros category First prize goes to Mauro Sigura Quartet (Italy) for La danza di Amarech. Second prize goes to LRK Trio (Russia) for No tears. Third prize goes to Max Bessesen (USA) for Sendoff. Amateurs category First prize went to AB Quartet (Italy) for Lux Originis. Second prize went to Milan Verbist (Belgium) for Dark days, darker nights. Third ...
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