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Ivan Valentini

Born: July 17, 1955

IVAN VALENTINI
saxophonist/composer

After searching for the most suitable way of expression, he devoted himself to music attending seminars and getting diplomas in Saxophone and Jazz Music. Since the early 90s he has been leading figure within music groups comfortably moving from improvised music to other forms of art, always proposing his own compositions. He reinforces his musical activities by devoting time to Zen phylosophy. He performed with Henry Threadgill, Mathias Ruegg and Bruno Tommaso’s orchestras.

He played also with: Franco D’Andrea Steve Bernstein, Enrico Rava, Roberto Dani, Tito Mangialajo, Giancarlo Bianchetti, Achille Succi, Lorena Fontana, Attilio Zanchi, Simone Guiducci, Marco Detto, Massimo Manzi, Enrico Merlin, Paolo Botti, Alberto Capelli …and others… Since 1987 he has been regularly performed in music and poetry in collaboration with the poets Alberto Bertoni, Enrico Trebbi, Gaspare Bernardi, occasionally with Maurizio Cucchi, Giovanni Giudici, Gianni D’Elia, Giancarlo Sissa, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Laura Betti, Mauro Macario, Emilio Rentocchini. In the first 90ties he used to played with the Italian song writer Vinicio Capossela.

Camera Funky

By Ivan Valentini

Label: Alman Music - Cose Sonore
Released: 2026
Track listing: Fu-Gu; Rabbit In A Bag; Overload; Acque Dense; Charnold; Bishop's Move; Orbit Ten; Soul Pain, Soul Gain.

Look at something closely

By Blankrooms

Label: Jazz'Halo
Released: 2026
Track listing: Merge; Dark desire; Next life; She moves on; Nap on a cloud

Ivan Valentini: Camera Funky

by Jack Bowers
September 10, 2026

Modena, Italy-based saxophonist Ivan Valentini's quintet traverses a wide range of styles on Camera Funky, from African-oriented themes to funk, rock, free and contemporary straight-ahead jazz. As Valentini wrote and arranged every number, the album's charisma rests for the most part squarely on his shoulders. Are those shoulders strong enough to carry the load? ...

Un Lieu

By Ivan Valentini

Label: Jazz Halo
Released: 2025

Rust and Blue

By Ivan Valentini

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Nichilismo 19; The Fake Five; 7ette 2ue 5inque; Blue on Twenty; XY2; Twice Six; Slight Glow; 24 Eleven; Song 3; The Seven Is Easy; Two Behind Two.

I 10 CD nel CD-Player di... Ivan Valentini

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 4, 2016

01. Henry Threadgill -Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket (About Time -1983). L'ho comprato recentemente perché segnalato da Steve Lehman sulla sua pagina facebook come un disco che ha avuto molta influenza sulla sua formazione musicale... e ho fatto bene! Musica di incredibile freschezza nonostante siano passati più di trent'anni, architetture e peso compositivo ...

Ivan Valentini: Rust and Blue

by Vincenzo Roggero
January 12, 2016

L'iniziale “Nichilismo" è brano breve, secco, tagliente nelle sonorità, nervoso nello sviluppo, senza punti di riferimento. Il successivo “The Fake Five" ha un andamento lento, avviluppa l'ascoltatore tra le spire di una melodia incantatoria che nasconde sotto la superficie segnali di pericolo imminente, di sogno pronto a trasformarsi in incubo. Sono queste le ...

Light and Darkness

By Ivan Valentini

Label: Music Center
Released: 2008

Ivan Valentini: Light and Darkness

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 25, 2008

Non smentisce il titolo del primo brano, perché Light and Darkness, il nuovo disco di Ivan Valentini, parte proprio in quarta. Corde pizzicate, ritmo danzante, il sax soprano che guizza, surfando sulla trama metrica, la chitarra elettrica distorta lanciata in un solo dalla geometria irregolare e la sensazione che i cinque musicisti abbiano in poco conto ...