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Javier Girotto

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Javier Edgardo Girotto plays soprano, baritone saxophone, flute, bass clarinet, quenas, sicus. He was born in Cordoba, Argentina and took an interest in music thanks to his grandfather A.L.Caroli, band director, first playing snare drum, then clarinet in E flat in the Infanto Juvenil de Cordoba and in the band of Villa del Rosario, then he changed to clarinet in B flat. For a musician to change from clarinet to saxophone is quite natural. Having chosen sax alto, in Buenos Aires, he looked for someone who could introduce him to jazz, but had no luck. Once again in Cordoba he created his first jazz- inspired groups, and dedicated himself also to commercial music known as “Quartetos”. At sixteen he studied the classics, enrolled in the Provincial De Cordoba Conservatory and as a saxophone class did not exist, he attended a clarinet and flute class obtaining an average level in both instruments.. Together with his studies at the conservatory he collaborated with various groups, among which the Vertiente, a mixture of fusion and argentinian folklore, the Jazz 440, “Jam”, Enzo Piccioni Quartet and the Juan Ciallella Quartet. At age 19 he won a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music and at last all the jazz doors opened

Article: Interview

Enzo Favata, Ritornare ad Atlantico

Read "Enzo Favata, Ritornare ad Atlantico" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Nell'ormai lungo e articolato percorso artistico di Enzo Favata, accanto all'esplorazione e reinterpretazione della tradizione della sua terra d'origine, la Sardegna, spicca la formazione che per oltre un decina d'anni, a cavallo del cambio di millennio, ha suonato sui palchi di mezzo mondo: Atlantico. Proprio con quella formazione, che dopo una lunga pausa ha ripreso a ...

Article: Album Review

Matteo Rossi: Young Lions Orchestra

Read "Young Lions Orchestra" reviewed by Marco Iacoboni


È sempre con grande piacere ascoltare il risultato di progetti costruttivi e creativi come quello della Young Lions Orchestra, un collettivo che coinvolge giovani musicisti della scena romana under 30. Matteo Rossi, compositore, direttore d'orchestra, arrangiatore, cresce come un talentuoso pianista e tastierista cresciuto a pane, jazz e avanguardia, prestato alla realtà pop-rock come ...

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Article: Interview

Luca Bragalini: gli inediti di Duke Ellington e Gerry Mulligan

Read "Luca Bragalini: gli inediti di Duke Ellington e Gerry Mulligan" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Musicologo e docente di Storia del Jazz al conservatorio Verdi di Milano Luca Bragalini è da anni un appassionato studioso a cui dobbiamo preziosi saggi e importanti scoperte sulla musica afroamericana e i suoi protagonisti. Ricordiamo la monografia Storie poco standard. Le avventure di 12 grandi canzoni tra Broadway e jazz (EDT 2013) e il saggio ...

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Article: Interview

Ralph Towner: The Accidental Guitarist

Read "Ralph Towner: The Accidental Guitarist" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


This article was first published on All About Jazz on May 16, 2017. Ralph Towner is a rather atypical figure in the vast world of jazz guitar. His instruments of choice are the classical guitar, which when he started, in the '60s, was played almost exclusively by guitarists related to Brazilian music like Charlie ...

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Young Lions Orchestra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Messi; Zoogami; Caro; Lawns; Mate; Molionga tristora; Children's war; Wall Tall; Midnight Voyage;

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Due esempi italiani di world jazz da camera

Read "Due esempi italiani di world jazz da camera" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Tra i tanti meriti ascrivibili al gruppo degli Oregon rientra sicuramente anche quello di aver fatto da modello per un tipo specifico di ensemble cameristico caratterizzato dall'uso di strumenti quasi esclusivamente acustici e dal proporre una musica in cui si fondono elementi classici, jazz, world e folk in un mix di composizione e improvvisazione. Da allora ...

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Article: In Pictures

Mediterranean Waves featuring Javier Girotto Piacenza Jazz Fest 2025

Read "Mediterranean Waves featuring Javier Girotto Piacenza Jazz Fest 2025" reviewed by Danilo Codazzi


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Marco Tiraboschi e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Marco Tiraboschi e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Chitarrista, si definisce musicista creativo ed eclettico. La sua musica mescola elementi di jazz, classica contemporanea, echi dei Balcani e del mediterraneo, ed ambisce ad una sintesi quanto più possibile personale e comunicativa. Nel suo ultimo album, In a New World, realizzato in compagnia di Giulio Corini al contrabbasso e Daniele Richiedei a violino ...

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Article: In Pictures

Jazz'on Parma Orchestra with Javier Girotto at Ruggero Ruggeri Theatre Guastalla

Read "Jazz'on Parma Orchestra with Javier Girotto at Ruggero Ruggeri Theatre Guastalla" reviewed by Danilo Codazzi



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