Biography Max De Aloe is considered one of the most active jazz harmonicists on the European scene. His works number fifteen albums as a leader and more than forty as a sideman, as well as solo shows, soundtrack composition for theater performances and documentary films, and creative collaborations with poets, writers and directors. He has […]
Biography International Award winning pianist and composer Mike del Ferro was born in Amsterdam. His father was Leonard del Ferro, an opera singer who sang and recorded with Maria Callas and Leonard Bernstein. He started studying classical piano at the age of nine and after falling in love with jazz he pursued his studies to received […]
Biography In 2012 Enrico Zanisi won the Top Jazz price as best young talent, a prestigious Italian jazz award launched by Musica Jazz magazine, while in 2014 won the SIAE award for creativity. Since then he has performed in most of the major Italian festivals such as Umbria Jazz, Festival MITO, Time in Jazz, Piano City, […]
Biography Considering that throughout her career, Rebecca Martin has teamed up with everyone from Paul Motian, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jeff Ballard, and Brian Blade to the likes of Guillermo Klein and her partner Larry Grenadier—not forgetting her fairly recent collaboration called “Tillery” with singers Gretchen Parlato and Becca Stevens, one should think that the vocalist/singer-songwriter would be more widely known. And yet, her brilliant and slowly expanding discography remains a […]
Biography Paris based jazz guitarist Federico Casagrande is considered one of the most influential European guitar player of the last years. He started in early age the study of classical music in Italy. In 2003 he moved on a scholarship to Boston, U.s.a., where he attended the Berklee College of Music and graduated summa cum […]
Biography Kyle Shepherd is one of South Africa’s most celebrated pianists & composers of his generation. Internationally recognised for his distinctive compositional style & performances, has made a huge impression on debut as a film score composer for the critically-acclaimed film, Noem My Skollie / Call Me Thief – South Africa’s official entry to the 2017 Academy Awards […]
Biography He is the italian rising star of the accordion, with a remarkable technique, a deep blues and swing feeling and plays with talent any kind of musical genres (Italian Jazz Dictonary, 2014). Richard Galliano, speaking about young accordionists in an interview, said: “The person that really impressed me is a young Italian from Puglia, […]
Biography Tracy Silverman is one of the world’s foremost electric violin soloists, bringing concert hall legitimacy to this next-generation instrument. As part of Silverman’s vision for the “future of strings”, he has premiered and recorded several major new electric violin concertos written specifically for him by composers John Adams (The Dharma at Big Sur), Terry […]
Biography As one of the most admired, accomplished bassists working in jazz today, Larry Grenadier has been praised as “a deeply intuitive” musician by The New York Times and as an instrumentalist with a “fluid sense of melody” by Bass Player magazine. Grenadier has created an expansive body of work in collaboration with many of […]
Biography With more than 500 works composed in over 50 albums as a leader, more than 150 albums with important musicians and thousands of concerts at every latitude, saxophonist Javier Girotto is undoubtedly one of the most accomplished Argentine musicians in the world. Born in Cordoba, he trained in Argentina and the United States, where he […]
