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News: Performance / Tour

Antonio Ciacca Appointed Artist in Residence for Jazz at Setai

Antonio Ciacca Appointed Artist in Residence for Jazz at Setai

Pianist and bandleader Antonio Ciacca has been appointed Artist-in-Residence at the Setai Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. Beginning April 1, 2011, Ciacca will present his trio and quatet, as well as curate concerts featuring some of New York's finest jazz musicians, every night of the week as a part of Jazz at Setai. Performances begin ...

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Antonio Ciacca Trio Performs at Nazareth College (Rochester) on April 9th

Antonio Ciacca Trio Performs at Nazareth College (Rochester) on April 9th

Jazz pianist, composer, and bandleaderAntonio Ciacca leads his trio—featuring bassist Dan Vitale and drummer Mike Melito—in a concert and discussion at Nazareth College's Wilmot Recital Hall on Saturday, April 9, 2011. An exciting pianist and articulate advocate of jazz, Mr. Ciacca, whose performance is sponsored by the college's Casa Italiana, will also offer an illuminating discussion ...

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Lagos Blues

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Lagos Blues; Take the D Train; Nicoletta; Whims of Chambers; Nico's Song; Body & Soul; Reflections in D/In a Sentimental Mood.

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Lagos Blues (with Steve Grossman)

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Lagos Blues; Take the D Train; Nicoletta; Whims of Chambers; Nico's Song; Body & Soul; Reflections in D/In a Sentimental Mood.

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News: Performance / Tour

Antonio Ciacca and TwinsMusic Enterprises Present Italian Jazz Days

Antonio Ciacca and TwinsMusic Enterprises Present Italian Jazz Days

Now entering its second year, Italian Jazz Days represents an exciting artistic collaboration between Antonio Ciacca, Director of Programming at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Todd Barkan, Artistic Director of Dizzy's Club Coca Cola. Originating from the Italian Cultural Institute and produced by TwinsMusic Enterprises, Italian Jazz Days showcases the tremendous artistic talent and heritage emerging ...

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News: Festival

Tuscia in Jazz: Info and Festival Program 2010

Tuscia in Jazz: Info and Festival Program 2010

Tuscia in Jazz We have arrived at the ninth edition of the Tuscia in Jazz Festival. Other than the change in name, we have also changed the venue, moving to a fixed location in the heart of the Monti Cimini, the beautiful Soriano nel Cimino. The festival has been strongly supported by the local administration of ...

Article: Album Review

Antonio Ciacca Quintet: Lagos Blues

Read "Lagos Blues" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Nel realizzare il sesto lavoro da leader Antonio Ciacca ha coronato un sogno: incidere un album con la partecipazione del suo mentore Steve Grossman. E Lagos Blues vede protagonista proprio il musicista americano, capace di dar corpo - con alcuni interventi di rara efficacia - a una scaletta che si risolve in sette brani, scelti tra ...

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Ciacca: Lagos Blues (with Steve Grossman)

Read "Lagos Blues (with Steve Grossman)" reviewed by George Kanzler


There's a good reason most “real" jazz radio stations tend to favor the modern mainstream jazz of the post-bop era codified by such record labels from the mid-20th Century as Blue Note, Columbia's jazz division, Prestige, Riverside and Impulse. It's creative jazz with a comfortingly substantial physicality, clean lines and rhythmic heft still anchored to a ...

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Ciacca: Lagos Blues

Read "Lagos Blues" reviewed by J Hunter


Four decades ago, Miles Davis called then-burgeoning saxophonist Steve Grossman “an important voice in this music." One of the people who heard that voice was pianist Antonio Ciacca. Lagos Blues, Ciacca's second disc for Motema, not only shows Grossman's influence as Ciacca's former teacher; it also includes the now-legendary tenor player's direct influence, as he joins ...

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Ciacca: Rush Life

Read "Rush Life" reviewed by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio


Antonio Ciacca Quintet's Rush Life is a welcome and valuable addition to the contemporary jazz catalogue, where it will rest easy, knowing its place. There are bits and pieces throughout the nine tracks that serve as hopeful reminders that the album could have been more provocative than it is. What it lacks is not skill, but ...


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