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Renato Podestà

Born: August 7, 1980

Born in Piacenza on August 7 1980, Renato Podestà started playing piano at age 8 and took up guitar at 12 years old, enamored by the first blues records he heard.

He has performed, live and in the recording studio, with Umberto Petrin, Hetty Kate, Tricia Boutté, Kay Foster Jackson, Shanna Waterstown, Mattia Cigalini, Alfredo Ferrario, Massimo Greco, Sandro Gibellini, Beppe Di Benedetto, Gianluca Di Ienno, Marco Micheli, Michael Supnick and Stefania Rava, and with pop artists Renzo Arbore and Nina Zilli.

In 2008 he cofounded the progressive swing band Sugarpie and the Candymen, where he has been working as a guitar player, arranger and vocalist. The band has recorded five albums so far, all for Italian indie label Irma Records, and has performed in jazz clubs e festivals around Europe, such as Umbria Jazz, Jazz Ascona, Madrid Jazz Festival, Offtown Festival (Istanbul), La Meridien Etoile (Paris) and many others, as well as several radio and TV shows in Italy, Switzerland and Poland.

Great new albums - mostly from Canada

by Bob Osborne
March 19, 2020

A selection of six new releases this time.... the majority of which are fine examples of a rich Canadian jazz scene Italian Guitarist Renato Podestà with his first album as a band leader with music inspired by New Orleans music tradition and the contemporary New York scene. Ottawa pianist Peter Hum with ...

Foolish Little Dreams

By Renato Podestà

Label: Irma Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: 1. Happy Feet (Milton Ager / Jack Yellen) 2. Five (Bill Evans) 3. Blood Count (Billy Strayhorn) 4. Fascinating Rhythm (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin) 5. Butch and Butch (Oliver Nelson) 6. Bolero (Renato Podestà) 7. Heart Beat Sweet (Gianluca Di Ienno) 8. Exactly Like You (Jimmy McHugh / Dorothy Fields)