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Simone Guiducci

Simone Guiducci, italian jazz guitarist and composer, has recorded and performed live with Ralph Alessi, Erik Friedlander, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Don Byron,

About Me

Born in Turin, Italy, Simone Guiducci, guitarist and composer, has been hailed as one of the most talented musicians on the Italian jazz scene since the early 90's going on to make several internationally acclaimed recordings as leader. With his project GRAMELOT, ( quintet with Achille Succi , Fausto Beccalossi, Salvatore Maiore, Roberto Dani ) a creative dialogue between italian folklore themes and jazz improvisation, Simone Guiducci has forged strong ties with the recording and concert worlds, working with Ralph Alessi, Erik Friedlander, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Chris Speed, Don Byron, Gianluigi Trovesi, Kenny Wheeler, Oscar Del Barba, Maria Pia de Vito, Nicolas Simion, Matt Renzi, Ares Tavolazzi, Mauro Negri, Kyle Gregory and Eberhard Weber. He has 4 cds produced by italian label Felmay : the debut album , CANTADOR (2000); CHORALE (2002) with Erik Friedlander on cello and Ralph Alessi on trumpet as guests ; DANCIN' ROOTS (2004, featuring clarinetist Don Byron , Ralph Alessi, Andy Milne as guest), STORIE DI FIUME (2006) and the last release THAT'S ALL FOLKS, (december 2011), again with Ralph Alessi as special guest.

As one well known critic puts it, GRAMELOTs folk-jazz is fluid and free, rippling between jazz, classical and popular music, between regional and global, between the ancient and modern world. It is a language of jazz improvisation interwoven with popular melodies, spoken with an ease and grace. It is many languages, spoken as musical expressions or idioms, which come together in a world where the imagination shapes them into new and old forms that are always intriguing.

Guiducci has received acclaim both from Italian critics, who voted him second in Top Jazz's classification of emerging talents in Italy, and from abroad, with reviews in leading specialist magazines including JAZZMAN (France), ALL ABOUT JAZZ (USA), CADENCE (USA), JAZZMAGAZINE (France) and an relevant interview on top magazine JAZZPODIUM (Germany) .

Cd CHORALE was in the TOPTEN of the year 2003 by ALL ABOUT JAZZ Editor Michael Ricci. In the past few years, Simone Guiducci has performed in Italy & all around the world : Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Caracas, Quito, Lima, Mexico City, Guatemala City, Moscow, Montreal, Vancouver, Stockholm, Helsinki, Vilnius, Tallin, Amsterdam, Liège, Lyon, Ankara, Istanbul, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Bremen, Dublin, Nantes, Zagreb, Beograd, Tirana, Haifa, Nazareth and more.