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Dado Moroni

Edgardo “Dado” Moroni was born in Genoa, Italy, was exposed to Jazz music very early, thanks to his parents’ record collection, and he started playing piano at age four. Basically self taught, Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum and Erroll Garner were his first influences and Dado tried to learn their solos by ear until, around age 11, he met local Jazz pianist Flavio Crivelli, who gave him a more formal training and introduced him to the music of Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie and more contemporary pianists like Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal and Oscar Peterson. Dado started playing professionally from age 14, with the most important Italian Jazz musicians such as Gianni Basso, Franco Cerri, Sergio Fanni, Luciano Milanese, Massimo Urbani, Sandro Gibellini and Tullio De Piscopo, performing in clubs and concerts throughout the country and in 1979, at age 17, he recorded his first album in trio with Tullio De Piscopo on drums and American bassist Julius Farmer

Sir Stevie: Jammin' on Stevie Wonder - Part 4

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

All good things come to an end, so here we are with the last part of our celebration of Stevie Wonder's 70th birthday in the key of jazz [check out parts one, two and three]. In this final installment tributes by Geri Allen, Stephane Belmondo and Sylvain Luc, Urbie Green, Max Ionata and Dado Moroni, Abbey ...

Intervista a Franco Ambrosetti

By ANGELO LEONARDI

Il 2019 è stato un anno significativo per il trombettista svizzero Franco Ambrosetti. In aprile è stato pubblicato il suo libro autobiografico “La scelta di non scegliere" mentre da poche settimane è uscito Long Waves, il suo ventottesimo disco da leader con un cast stellare comprendente John Scofield, Uri Caine, Scott Colley e Jack DeJohnette.

Andrea Domenici Trio: Playing Who I Am

By DR. JUDITH SCHLESINGER

The traditional road to musical success has been to make and promote a first recording, aiming for the kind of critical and public attention that leads to prestigious bandmates and gigs. But the fine pianist Andrea Domenici paves a new path with his masterful debut Playing Who I Am, since it arrives after he has already ...

Enzo Zirilli's "Radio London" project with Peter Bernstein at Folkclub

By ANTONIO BAIANO

The jny: London-based Italian drummer Enzo Zirilli is a regular guest at Folkclub, one of the main music venues in Turin, Italy. With his “Radio London" project, he regularly brings talented musicians that perform in bands he leads of co-leads to Folkclub. To celebrate the tenth year of this curated concert series, Zirilli invited acclaimed guitar ...

Celebrating centennials at Moncalieri Jazz Festival

By ANTONIO BAIANO

After the two concerts which opened its 20th edition, the Moncalieri Jazz Festival shifted to full throttle with four more great nights of music, each celebrating the centennials of jazz giants born in 1917. The first evening was dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald. Italian-Algerian vocalist Karima performed “Voices," a special project commissioned by the festival, ...

Umbria Jazz 2017

By ROBERTO CIFARELLI

Photos of the Umbria Jazz Festival, featuring among many others Wayne Shorter, 5 by Monk by 5: Kenny Barron, Eric Reed, Cyrus Chestnut, Benny Green and Dado Moroni; the trio of Egberto Gismonti, Stefano Bollani and Hamilton de Holland and the Umbria Jazz Orchestra directed by Ryan Truesdell featuring Steve Wilson, Paolo Fresu, Jay Anderson and ...

Merano Jazz 2017

By GIUSEPPE SEGALA

Merano Jazz 2017 Teatro Puccini Merano 10-13.07.2017 Da molti anni l'appuntamento di Merano Jazz è imperniato su tre concerti e cinque giornate intense di corsi dell'Accademia Mitteleuropea, diretti da Franco D'Andrea ed Ewald Kontschieder. In ogni edizione si invita un artista diverso per la masterclass principale, e dal 2002 sono passati ...

Intervista a Fabrizio Bosso

By DANIELE VOGRIG

Con un nuovo album registrato dal vivo tra l'Italia e il Giappone, Fabrizio Bosso ha ripercorso il proprio cammino artistico e musicale, fotografando con il suo attuale quartetto i memorabili istanti di un tour ancora in atto. Abbiamo avuto il piacere di parlarne insieme... All About Jazz: Iniziamo dal tuo ultimo album, State ...

Joe La Barbera: Experiencing Bill Evans

By VICTOR L. SCHERMER

In his own unassuming way, Bill Evans changed the face of jazz piano trio forever. He made the piano a lyrical, expressive voice for the most subtle and deep emotions, and he transformed the rhythm section from a time-beating, swing-maintaining outfit into an intimate, conversational musical unit. He loved tradition. It was just his grasp of ...