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Pietro Ciancaglini
Pietro Ciancaglini, born in Rome in 1975, is a double bass player, electric bass player, composer, arranger and teacher. He graduated from the Conservatory of Frosinone in Double Bass and from the Conservatory of Campobasso in Jazz Music.
He played, among the others, with Enrico Pieranunzi, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Javier Girotto, Dado Moroni, Emanuele Cisi, Antonio Faraò, Flavio Boltro, Pietro Tonolo, Roberto Gatto, Maurizio Giammarco, Rosario Giuliani, Nicola Stilo, Rita Marcotulli, Franco D'Andrea, Francesco Cafiso, Steve Grossmann, George Garzone, George Cables, Joe Chambers, Eliot Zigmund, Bill Smith, Lee Konitz, Gil Goldstein, Toninho Horta, Michele Hendricks, Joanne Brackeen, Mark Turner, Randy Brecker, Greg Osby, Bob Mintzer, Peter Bernstein, Alex Sipiagin, Nasheet Waits, David Kikoski, Ferenc Nemeth, Eric Alexander, Grant Stewart. He was co-leader of the group High Five quintet from 2001 to 2008 and the trio LTC. He also played with singer Mario Biondi and DJ Nicola Conte, performing with them several tours in Italy and abroad.
He released as leader the albums "Italian Jazz graffiti" (Isma records /2002), "Reincarnation of a lovebird" (Schema records /2009) and "Second Phase" feat. David Kikoski (JandoMusic /2014).
He was co-arranger of the album of singer Mario Biondi "Handful Of Soul" (Schema Records- 2006) and arranger of the album of singer Andrea Balducci "Bloom" (Schema Records-2012), as well as being the performer of the music.
In 2010 he appeared in the magazine "Jazz Music" in the "top 10" of the best new talent category. He has taught double bass, electric bass and ensemble music in several Italian conservatories. He currently teaches at the Conservatory of Perugia.
He has played in several festivals including: Umbria Jazz, Veneto Jazz, Fano Jazz, Atina Jazz, Bergamo Jazz, Terni in Jazz, Clusone Jazz, Crossroads jazz festival, Jazz al Filarmonico di Verona, Garda jazz festival, Brianza Open jazz festival, Siena Jazz, Paris Jazz festival, Montreaux jazz festival, North sea jazz festival, Blue Note festival di Gent, Beograd jazz festival, Blue Note di Osaka, Nagoya e Tokyo, Jazz festival de Saint-Jean-De Luz, Leverkusener Jazztage, Cheltenham Festivals, Usad'ba festival di Mosca.
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In 2010 he appeared in the magazine "Jazz Music" in the "top 10" of the best new talent category
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Pietro Ciancaglini: Consecutio
by Neil Duggan
Acknowledged as one of the leading acoustic bassists in Italy, Pietro Ciancaglini branches out into new territory on Consecutio. In addition to his double bass, he plays Fender jazz bass, six-string electric bass and five-string fretless bass. He is supported by his long-time wingman Pietro Lussu on piano and Fender Rhodes, drummer Armando Sciommeri and vocalist Chiara Orlando. Orlando is a surprise package, using her voice as an instrumental resource, usually to wordlessly harmonise with the bass. Despite the lack ...
read moreNicola Conte: Other Directions
by Chris May
Since debuting with the quintessential acid-jazz suite Jet Sounds on the Milan-based label Schema in 2000, the composer, arranger, producer and guitarist Nicola Conte has released another ten exquisitely beautiful albums exploring acid jazz, spiritual jazz, soul jazz and bossa nova, often all on the same disc. Conte also produces other artists and has curated rare-groove bossa nova compilations for Far Out and modal-jazz compilations for Blue Note and MPS. Everything he does is erudite and lustrous and certain to ...
read more"Abandoned - only for the moment! - the beloved double bass, Pietro Ciancaglini holds the electric bass to sign one of the most interesting records of the early twenties. A surprising work, mature, stylistically fluid and fascinating; above all, an exemplary record for ideation, arrangements, execution. And perspective. Yes, because Pietro’s album alludes - at last - to an idea of jazz inevitably vast, wide, varied, without borders, declined with extreme elegance, having very clear the goal, and the ways to achieve it.
Supported by a band of excellent musicians (the long-time sodale Pietro Lussu, piano and Fender Rhodes; Armando Sciommeri, virtuoso "polyglot" drummer, and the intense and beautiful voice of Chiara Orlando, used as an instrumental resource), the Roman musician sets up ten caskets of precious ideas, starting from the phenomenal Consecutio, which opens the disc and gives the listener the key to interpret the compositional paradigm of the work, or the search for an Esperanto jazz who knows how to mix the new black American jazz with the most modern hard-bop shot, through free improvisation, without forgetting the search for “cantabile” melodies.
