Results for "Milan"

Javier Perez Forte

Born: February 9, 1960

Argentine guitarist, composer and arranger, he has studied to the Universdad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), then he specialized himself in Paris and Italy with Ivo Malec, Pierre Boulez, Ennio Morricone among the others. The record label Nuova Fonit Cetra-RAI has published his chamber music in the CD Atmospheres and the Sonzogno publisher edited his compositions for orchestra. He has composed for the singer Lucia Minetti the music of Luz!, a song that gives the name to the homonymous CD (Velut Luna Records). He has accomplished all the tango- arrangements for the Mario Brunello's Orchestra d’archi italiana and he has participated as a soloist player in this project.
 He has has collaborated with many directors and actors and composed music for cinema, for theater and for documentaries for several institutions (Regione Lombardia, Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, Istituto di Antropologia di Milano, Istituto Politecnico di Milano, etc

Giuliano Ligabue

Born: September 9

Giuliano Ligabue is an Italian crooner, guitarist, arranger, and composer. With over 10 million streams across major digital platforms, his music reaches listeners worldwide, and his voice has often been compared to Michael Bublé and Frank Sinatra. He is also a virtuoso of jazz-swing guitar, one of the few musicians in Italy to play a seven-string guitar, earning recognition from international artists such as Bucky and John Pizzarelli.

He released several albums, EPs, and singles: Swing Affair (2013) with his own drumless trio to honor the musical style of Nat King Cole, Live at Summertime in Jazz (2016) recorded live with his Swing Band, Ci Può Stare (2019) which includes original songs in Italian language and international hits expertly arranged by Giuliano, This Happy Rhythm (Ep 2020) with guest saxophonist Mattia Cigalini. In 2021 he released various singles that anticipate the release of the new album. Timeless (2022), has received over two million streams on Spotify just a few months after its release. His single Come Fly With Me (2024) has reached 7 million views on TikTok, further establishing him as a prominent interpreter of the Great American Songbook.

Gabriele Bulfon

Born: May 5, 1970

Started classical piano training at 7, then later moved my interests into modern Jazz and Fusion, taking private lessons from various jazz masters, expecially Alan Pasqua, Otmaro Ruiz and Massimo Colombo.

I compose music of my own, with no specific genre in mind.

My latest official project is Quantum Mechanics, featuring Walter Calloni, Stefano Bagnoli, Andrea Bruzzone and Franco Avalli.
It's available both in streaming, digital and CD format.

Tiziano Tononi

Born: November 18, 1956

Born in Milano on November 18th 1956, starts playing in rock bands and gets closer to jazz since the mid-seventies. In 1978 meets american percussionist Andrew Cyrille with whom starts studying in New York and subsequently in Europe. In 1979 enrolls the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano, studying classical percussion under David Lee Searcy, principal tympanist at the Teatro alla Scala, Milano. In that same year returns to New York to study with Bob Moses, and founds the group Nexus with saxophonist Daniele Cavallanti. Gets known with Nexus, in Italy first and then in Europe, through concerts and festivals appearances: Milano, Cagliari, Clusone, Bolzano, Noci, Le Mans, Koln, Moers, Vienna, Vilshofen, Opeye, Mulhouse, Verona, Saarbrucken-St.Ingbert, Gent, Tampere, S.AnnaArresi, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Vancouver, Istanbul.

Joyce E. Yuille

Joyce Yuille has had a pretty interesting life in which music has played a major part in someway. Starting as a runway model she eventually found her true path…The union between her soul and God given talent as a singer. Joyce has had the chance to work with many well-known Italian and international artists such as Paolo Conte, Randy Crawford, Donna Summer, Laura Pausini, Elio e Le Storie Tese, Andrea Mingardi, The Blues Bros. Band, Eddie Floyd, Ronan Keating, Sister Sledge and renown disco diva Gloria Gaynor with whom she has had a continuous role as a backing singer during her Italian and European performances

Mirko Fait

Born: June 3, 1965

Mirko Fait, Italian, was born in Milan on 3rd June 1965 in a family of artists. Mirko started playing the guitar at a young age, from the early 1970s, but it was only later that he realised that his cultural ground was jazz music. This is why in the 1990s he chose the contralto saxophone. He started his studies in Bergamo with Alberto Nacci, moving back to Milan he continued studying the tenor saxophone with the maestro Michele Bozza, with Giulio Visibelli and Emanuele Cisi at the centre “Civica di jazz” run by Franco Cerri and Enrico Intra, until his last lessons with the American Michael Rosen.

He played straight away in different bands and he performed from the very first years also in jam sessions and with various jazz groups in a few Milanese clubs (Capolinea, Scimmie, Tangram, Aquatica, Mirasol, le Trottoir, Ittolittos, Ca’Bianca, Santa Tecla).

In January 2002, with the Cuban trumpet player and pianist Gendrickson Mena Diaz, he was asked to play for a renowned stylist group at the Pitti Uomo club and in 2003 he founded the jazz band Five for you

Michele Di Toro

Diplomato con il massimo dei voti, la lode e la menzione speciale al Conservatorio L. D’Annunzio di Pescara, si è perfezionato presso l’Ecole Normale de Musique A. Cortot di Parigi, ottenendo il diploma di esecuzione rilasciatogli all’unanimità; inoltre ha vinto il Premio per pianisti jazz F. Gulda, assegnato con una menzione speciale della giuria per la migliore esecuzione di un brano composto dallo stesso Gulda. In pochi anni si è esibito con numerosi jazzisti italiani, tra cui Paolo Fresu, Franco Cerri, Enrico Intra, Gianni Ferrio, Barbara Casini, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Franco Ambrosetti, Lino Patruno e Irio de Paula, e ricevendo gli apprezzamenti di illustri pianisti quali Maurizio Pollini e Antonio Ballista. Michele Di Toro ha sempre frequentato diversi ambiti musicali, eseguendo con la stessa passione il repertorio classico e jazz, e traendo maggiore ispirazione dalla musica afro-americana per creare un suo stile unico e trasversale

Ferdinando Farao

Born: August 6, 1959

FERDINANDO FARAO' & ARTCHIPEL ORCHESTRA Artchipel Orchestra is an ongoing project of drummer, composer and conductor Ferdinando Faraò. Artchipel is an experiment which has given excellent results, appreciated from both audiences and critics (e.g.: the critics poll of “Musica Jazz” magazine - 81 critics - awarded Artchipel the title of best Italian jazz band of 2012 and 2017). From a repertoire of original songs, the band moved to own arrangements of compositions by Mike Westbrook, Alan Gowen, Fred Frith and Dave Stewart and recorded all of those arrangements on its first cd, released in Autumn 2012: “Never Odd or Even”, featuring Phil Miller and including liner notes by Jonathan Coe

Enzo Rocco

Born: October 5, 1963

Guitarist, improviser, composer, conductor. Enzo Rocco has taken part in various groups since the early ‘90 also attendeding contemporary music, music for theatre and ballet, folk music, happenings and improvisations with poets and with painters. With his groups he has recorded a dozen of CDs (very well reviewed by the press all over the world) and he has played everywhere in Europe and often in Japan, Indonesia, Latin America, Northern Africa. Nowadays, after closing the eight-years experience of the Tubatrio - his own group with Giancarlo Schiaffini (trombone/tuba/electronics) and Ettore Fioravanti (drums) - he leads his own amusing “bass-less” New Trio (bass clarinet, drums, guitar) as well as keeps travelling around the world with Carlo Actis Dato (the humoristic, crazy duo being born in 1997)

Harry Allen With Rossano Sportiello At The Jazz Corner

by Martin McFie
January 15, 2020

Harry Allen with Rossano Sportiello The Jazz Corner Hilton Head Island, SCJanuary 10-11, 2019 At a certain point in a musician's career the shorthand of describing them as influenced by, or sounding like, this or that great player from the past becomes redundant--Harry Allen sounds like Harry Allen. His ...