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Richard Galliano

Born: December 12, 1950

Richard Galliano started studying piano and accordion at the age of 4 with his father Lucien Galliano, accordionist and teacher. Particularly gifted and invested, he quickly entered the Nice Conservatory, directed at that time by organist Pierre Cochereau, and followed courses in harmony, counterpoint and trombone. He won first prize in 1969 with trombone.

He arrived in Paris in 1975 and met Claude Nougaro, becoming his friend, his accordionist and conductor until 1983. The author and composer had found each other. They got along beautifully. From this close collaboration many songs that are part of the heritage of French music, such as Allée des brouillards, Des voiliers,Vie Violence were born.

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2023

by Luciano Rossetti
April 27, 2023

A collection of photos from the Bergamo Jazz Festival in Bergamo, Donizetti Theater and other locations, directed by Maria Pia De Vito, from March 19, 2023, to March 26, 2023 featuring Hamid Drake honoring Alice Coltrane guest Shabaka Hutchings, Joey Baron Trio, PanOrchestra, Rita Marcotulli--Paolo Fresu Duo, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Lakecia Benjamin, Richard Galliano Trio, Richard ...

The Record Store Owner: Jim Eigo

by B.D. Lenz
April 3, 2023

The last couple decades have brought a revolution in every aspect of the music-making process. Technology has transformed the creation of music, the promotion of music, and of course the distribution of music. At the very end of this delivery pipeline there has been a variety of formats that includes bulky vinyl records and clunky CDs, ...

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2023

by Libero Farnè
March 31, 2023

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2023 Bergamo Varie sedi 23-26.3.23 Quarantaquattresima edizione dell'importante festival lombardo: l'ultima sotto la direzione artistica di Maria Pia De Vito, che ha avuto il gravoso handicap di iniziare il suo mandato in concomitanza dell'insorgere della pandemia, che ha colpito in modo particolarmente funesto proprio questa zona d'Italia. Il ...

Roberto Ottaviano: sul palco e dietro le quinte

by Libero Farnè
March 27, 2023

È estremamente opportuno tornare periodicamente ad analizzare le esperienze più recenti di musicisti di grande personalità del panorama jazzistico italiano. Uno di questi è dagli anni Ottanta Roberto Ottaviano, che esordì discograficamente nel 1983 con Aspects, un lavoro rivelatore, in solo e in sestetto, di una potenza espressiva e di una creatività sconvolgenti. Dopo ...

Richard Galliano, Paolo Fresu and Jan Lundgren: The Windmills of Your Mind

by Michael Ricci
March 12, 2023

After reading the 200 Jazz Compositions Inspired By Don Quixote announcement and listening to the companion playlist I discovered the many jazz covers of Michel Legrand's “Windmills of Your Mind"--which won an Oscar for best song (The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968). A haunting beauty, this version by Richard Galliano, Paolo Fresu and Jan Lundgren's appears on ...

Michel Legrand: Hollywood Hitmaker And Jazz Genius

by Chris May
February 13, 2023

For many jazz fans, Michel Legrand is celebrated, if he is celebrated at all, for one album only: the masterpiece Legrand Jazz (Columbia, 1958). But Legrand's jazz legacy is more extensive than that, including other historic recordings, with large and small ensembles, under his own name and by Stan Getz and Phil Woods, whose Images (RCA, ...

John Abercrombie: The First Quartet

by John Kelman
February 9, 2023

With the release of Arcade (1979), Abercrombie Quartet (1980) and M (1981), John Abercrombie's entire ECM discography as a leader is finally available on CD. Looking back at these albums and their position in his oeuvre, they are revealed as seminal documents of Abercrombie's arrival as a distinctive writer, improvising guitarist and bandleader, delivering on the ...

Argentina-France: A Jazz Rematch, First Half

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2022

In jazz, unlike in sports, there are no winners or losers, and the best things come out when there's collaboration rather than competition. So this week we host a Franco-Argentinean jazz pas-de-deux celebrating the jazz traditions of the two countries whose national teams made it to the FIFA World Cup finals. Happy listening!

Francesco Bearzatti, Carmine Ioanna: Favolando

by Neri Pollastri
March 3, 2021

Da sempre frequentatore delle musiche più diverse, Francesco Bearzatti si presenta in questo disco in una veste piuttosto lontana da quella del suo quartetto Tinissima (clicca qui per leggere l'intervista in cui parla del recente disco della formazione, Zorro): lo troviamo infatti a duettare con un fisarmonicista irpino, Carmine Ioanna, in nove brani, un terzo dei ...