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Achille Succi

Achille Succi Saxophonist, bass clarinetist born in Modena on 1971. Mainly self-taught, he attended Siena Jazz and D.Liebman's Masterclasses. Together with Fabrizio Puglisi and Alberto Capelli he founded the "Atman" group, with whom he performed with famous guests such as Louis Sclavis, Ab Baars and Ernst Rejiseger. Beside his own Ensemble and duo with bass player Salvatore Maiore, Achille Succi takes also part in many musical projects, among those the “Othello Suite” of Uri Caine, “Circulez!” of Louis Sclavis, "Belcanto" of Ettore Fioravanti, "Gramelot ensamble" of Simone Guiducci, “Urban Raga” of Paolino Dalla Porta, "Nexus" di T.Tononi e D.Cavallanti, "Dolmen orchestra" of Nicola Pisani, "P.Centauri Orchestra" of Giorgio Gaslini and the "Eleven" of Franco D'Andrea; he also took part in many CD and concerts in Europe and in the world with various groups and musicians, italians and foreigns. As winner of the "Pépinières Europeénnes pour jeunes artistes" he had been guested by the Copenhagen rhythmic conservatory, where he began a collaboration with the danish composer Pierre Dorge and his "New Jungle Orchestra", who brought him touring in Scandinavia, Brasil and Australia. As bandleader Achille Succi released two cds, Shiva’s dance” and "Terra", he also take part of a duo project with bass player Salvatore Maiore, with whom released "Pequenas flores do inferno".All of those works got many positive critics from all national newspaper and Jazz magazines. He is teaching saxophone and clarinet at the civic school of Nonantola (Modena), and held jazz improvisation workshops and masterclasses at the Roccella Jonica Jazz Festival, "Tonelli" musical institute(Carpi), in Tollo (Pescara), Corropoli (Teramo), Lecco and Ferrara. Since 2001 he is among the teachers of the famous SienaJazz summer workshops and since 2006 he is teaching improvisation techniques on clarinet at the Conservatory of Ferrara.

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Alto sax and Bass clarinet


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Album Review

Giacomo Papetti The Loom: Chorale

Read "Chorale" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


La metafora del telaio (The Loom) si attaglia senza dubbio molto bene a questa formazione del contrabbassista Giacomo Papetti: i quattro musicisti coinvolti, infatti, pur offrendo ciascuno un contributo di assoluto valore, non si prendono quasi affatto spazi solistici, ma per tutta la durata del lavoro collaborano alla creazione di una fitta e ricca tessitura collettiva, ovvero Chorale, come da titolo dell'album. In questo caso il “telaio" di Papetti pare impegnato nella tessitura di arazzi, perché i brani ...

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Giancarlo Tossani Synapser: Nightrumor

Read "Nightrumor" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Sono passati vent'anni dallo splendido esordio, su etichetta Auand, di Synapser, quartetto guidato da Giancarlo Tossani. Due decenni nei quali il pianista e compositore cremonese ha intrapreso un percorso artistico dove la capacità di esplorare ambiti diversi, la curiosità come guida, la naturale abilità nell'allestire formazioni perfette per quella musica e per quelle idee, hanno funzionato da robusto fil rouge. Fil rouge che innerva, proprio con la sua molteplicità di visioni, Nightrumor , ultima uscita targata ancora Auand, ...

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Circles 44: In the Grip

Read "In the Grip" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Dopo Cratere, ecco il secondo album per il trio Circles 44, che qui si allarga però a quartetto con la presenza, tutt'altro che episodica nonostante sia il solo a non contribuire compositivamente, di Achille Succi ai clarinetti basso e contrabbasso. La formazione sviluppa una musica che, seguendo programmaticamente il suo nome, è caratterizzata in più modi dalla circolarità: reiterarsi di piccole celle tematiche, chiusura delle variazioni con il ritorno alle atmosfere di partenza, ossessività delle forme ritmiche. Ciononostante, ...

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Album Review

Luca Lo Bianco Quartet: Human Plots: Six Extraordinary Acts and a City

Read "Human Plots: Six Extraordinary Acts and a City" reviewed by Neil Duggan


Many acts of heroism are rewarded, but there are frequent acts of bravery and defiance that go unnoticed and unheralded. With the intention of shining a light on these everyday acts of humanity, Italian bassist Luca Lo Bianco brings us his third album as leader, Six Extraordinary Acts and a City. The acts concerned take place in different times, with contrasting contexts and in various geographic regions. There are seven tracks, with six written by Lo Bianco and one cover ...

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Franco D'Andrea: Sketches of the 20th Century

Read "Sketches of the 20th Century" reviewed by Giuseppe Segala


Ogni CD pubblicato da Franco D'Andrea rappresenta una tappa significativa del suo percorso artistico, ne descrive il clima, lo stato di avanzamento, ne sottolinea la costante logica, in un fitto ordito di fattori che dialogano costantemente entro panoramiche ricche di elementi dinamici. Questo Sketches of the 20th Century si pone però quale autentica pietra miliare, che spicca come il dettaglio nobile in una facciata di particolare pregio architettonico. D'Andrea parlava di questo progetto da qualche anno, dopo ...

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Liner Notes

Stefano Travaglini: Book of Innocence

Read "Stefano Travaglini: Book of Innocence" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


With Book of Innocence, Stefano Travaglini and Achille Succi have released an inspired recording and it is something quite beyond convention.  Stefano came to my attention in 2017 with his extraordinarily wide-ranging solo album Ellipse (Notami Jazz, 2017), his first leader recording. Another outstanding solo outing came in 2020 with Monk—Fifteen Piano Reflections (Notami Jazz). A multi-instrumentalist and composer, Stefano's primary focus, on his recordings, is the piano. A finalist, or winner, of multiple international piano competitions, Book of Innocence is Stefano's fifth album as a ...

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Album Review

Stefano Travaglini/Achille Succi: Book Of Innocence

Read "Book Of Innocence" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Book Of Innocence, an album from pianist Stefano Travaglini and reedist Achille Succi, opens with a tune entitled “Rothko," taking inspiration from the Russian-born abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko. The music is an edgy, frenetic romp. It sounds like a near out-of-control roll by a pair of skateboarders careening down a steep and winding mountain road, without the benefit of any type of braking mechanisms, the riders (the instrumentalists) weaving back and forth into and out of each others paths ...

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Interview

Saxophonist Achille Succi Interviewed at All About Jazz!

Saxophonist Achille Succi Interviewed at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz

Saxophonist and bass clarinetist Achille Succi has recently been singled out as “one of the European musicians to keep an eye on in the next ten years" by (Bill Schoemaker in Giornale Della Musica (January 2010), while journalist Mario Gamba defines him as a “genius of Italian Jazz" in Alias (March 20th, 2010). Among the many artists he has collaborated with are Uri Caine, Louis Sclavis, Ernst Reijseger, Pierre Dørge and Franco D'Andrea; he has also participated in the recording ...

Simone Guiducci
guitar, acoustic

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Nightrumor

Auand
2025

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Beauty Is a Rare Thing

Auand Records
2024

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In the Grip

Aut Records
2024

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Chorale

Barly Records
2024

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Sketches of the 20th...

Parco Della Musica
2023

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Human Plots: Six...

GleAM Records
2023

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The Choice

From: Human Plots: Six Extraordinary...
By Achille Succi

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