[Dixielandjazz] Dado Moroni and Rosario Giuliani
Steve Voce
stevevoce at virginmedia.com
Fri Jul 5 12:02:38 EDT 2019
I'm sorry, Marek. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, and I thought you
could take it.
You are very stubborn, you know!
Steve
On 05/07/2019 15:05, Marek Boym wrote:
> I don'[t understand how I allowed myself to be dragged again into this
> futile dispute.
> OK, I listen only to trad - "It ain't nobody's business if I do." It
> is perfectly all right for you to listen to so-called "modern" jazz
> and enjoy it - again, "It ain't nobody's business if you do." We
> still live in free countries, where everybody is entitled to an
> opinion. Trying to foist your opinions on me smacks of bolshevism - I
> know, I lived in a country where the powers that be dictated to us
> what we should we should or should not like (jazz was on of the things
> we were not supposed to like). Trying to make me a masochist does not
> stand to reason. There is only one reservation - listen to whatever
> you wish to your heart;s content, but NOT within hearing distance from
> my ears, to which it sounds offensive.
> Comments on one's being limited (isn't the politically correct
> expression "intellectually challenged?") makes very little sense, and
> is hardly convincing.
> Cheers
>
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 at 11:11, Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com
> <mailto:stevevoce at virginmedia.com>> wrote:
>
> You must surely be bored listening to the same thing all the time
> without any stimulation. I suppose you learn it by rote, like a
> kid with nursery rhythms?
> Steve
>
>> On 4 Jul 2019, at 22:19, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com
>> <mailto:marekboym at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Narrow minded? Perhaps. Who cares?
>> there is only one pair of ears I trust - mine. And they tell me
>> that the so-called modern jazz is, with few exceptions, boring at
>> best, or just noise. Took me a long time to separate wheat from
>> chaff - there is no way I'm going back!
>> Cheers
>>
>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 19:20, Steve Voce
>> <stevevoce at virginmedia.com <mailto:stevevoce at virginmedia.com>> wrote:
>>
>> That's narrow-minded, Marek. If you ut your prejudices aside,
>> I'm sure that these two guys will be able to play excellent
>> interpretations of Duke's music. They'll know their audience,
>> and have the technical abilities to adapt so that they'll
>> remid you of Johnny Hodges and the others! You might miss out
>> on something and regret it.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On 04/07/2019 16:47, Marek Boym wrote:
>>> Thank you, Steve.
>>> I did " clear between my ears out" long ago, stopped
>>> listening to modern mayhemand moved to jazz instead.
>>> The saxophonists background does not bode well - no OKOM
>>> thereat all. You have saved me money.
>>> Take care,
>>> Marek
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 18:04, Steve Voce
>>> <stevevoce at virginmedia.com
>>> <mailto:stevevoce at virginmedia.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you the world of good, Marek, if they can clear
>>> between your ears out!
>>>
>>> Here's some info.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> Edgardo "Dado" Moroni (born October 20, 1962) is an
>>> Italian jazz pianist and composer.
>>>
>>> A self-taught musician, Dado, who was born in Genoa,
>>> Italy, started playing piano at age four. By his
>>> mid-teens he was playing professionally around Italy and
>>> by age 17 had recorded his first album.
>>>
>>> Throughout the 1980s Dado worked mostly in Europe
>>> playing at festivals and in clubs, including a long
>>> stint as part of former Duke Ellington bassist Jimmy
>>> Woode's trio at Widder Bar in Zurich. Dado moved to the
>>> U.S. in 1991, becoming part of the New York jazz scene,
>>> and appearing regularly both as a leader and sideman, in
>>> some of the city's most prestigious clubs, including
>>> Blue Note, Birdland, Village Vanguard as well as
>>> recording several CDs.
>>>
>>> During his 35-year career Dado has played with legends
>>> including Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, Harry
>>> "Sweets" Edison, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Oscar Peterson,
>>> Ahmad Jamal, Hank Jones, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
>>> and Alvin Queen. A highly respected musician, at age 25
>>> he was granted the honor of serving as a juror at the
>>> prestigious Thelonious Monk International Piano
>>> Competition in 1987.[1]
>>>
>>> Based in Italy, Dado continues to perform worldwide. In
>>> 2007 he won the Italian Jazz Awards as Best Jazz Act. In
>>> 2009 Dado was named Best Italian Jazz Pianist in the Top
>>> Jazz referendum sponsored by Musica Jazz magazine.[2] In
>>> 2010 he was appointed Professor of Jazz Piano at
>>> Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Turin, a
>>> position he currently holds.
>>>
>>> Dado is married to Ada Tour.
>>>
>>> As for Rosario,
>>>
>>> He began studying the alto saxophone in the "Città di
>>> Terracina" band and he graduated in 1987 from the
>>> Licinio Refice Conservatory in Frosinone. In 1989 he
>>> participated in the Berklee College of Music courses
>>> organized as part of the Umbria Jazz festival. In 1990
>>> he was inserted by Rai in the orchestra of "Young
>>> talents of European jazz" organized for a concert held
>>> in Rome, at the Auditorium del Foro Italico, under the
>>> direction of James Newton. In the following years he
>>> collaborated in the recording of film soundtracks with
>>> internationally renowned masters such as Ennio
>>> Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Armando Trovajoli, Nicola
>>> Piovani, Riz Ortolani.
>>>
>>> In 1996 he won the "Massimo Urbani" award, while the
>>> following year he won the "Europe Jazz Contest" award,
>>> awarded in Belgium as the best soloist and best group.
>>> In 2000 he won the Top Jazz in the new talent category,
>>> for the annual referendum of the specialized magazine
>>> "Musica Jazz".
>>>
>>> In 2005 he participated in the "Land of the sun" project
>>> with Charlie Haden and Gonzalo Rubalcaba.
>>>
>>> In 2006 he leaves for a tour that touches the most
>>> important cities of the People's Republic of China.
>>>
>>> His collaborations are innumerable. Among others we
>>> remember those with Kenny Wheeler, Randy Brecker, Bob
>>> Mintzer, Cedar Walton, Phil Woods, Cameron Brown, Joe
>>> Locke, Donald Harrison and in Italy with Enrico Rava,
>>> Maurizio Giammarco, Tullio de Piscopo, Franco D'Andrea,
>>> Giovanni Tommaso , Enrico Pieranunzi, Dado Moroni,
>>> Javier Girotto and Flavio Boltro.
>>>
>>> He has played in several international festivals,
>>> including the following: Alatri Jazz (Italy), Jazz &
>>> Image, Tuscia in Jazz, Jazz in Liège, Gexto Jazz
>>> Festival (Spain), Zagreb Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz,
>>> Bergamo Jazz Festival, JVC Jazz Festival (Paris), Town
>>> Hall 2001 (New York), Nancy Jazz Pulsation (France),
>>> North Sea Jazz Festival (Netherlands), London Jazz
>>> Festival (Great Britain), California, Mexico, Hong Kong,
>>> Marciac Jazz Festival (France) , Ankara Jazz Festival,
>>> Smoke jazz Club (New York), Jazz in Vienne (France).
>>>
>>> In September 2000 Giuliani signed a recording contract
>>> with the French label "Dreyfus Jazz" with which he
>>> recorded his last 4 records, namely: "Luggage", released
>>> in April 2001, "Mr. Dodo", published in October 2002,
>>> "More Than Ever", released in October 2004, and
>>> "Anything Else", of January 2007.
>>>
>>> On March 22, 2010, "Lennie's pennies" was released for
>>> the "Dreyfus Jazz" label, which featured him with Joe La
>>> Barbera on drums, Pierre de Bethmann on piano and Darryl
>>> Hall on double bass.
>>>
>>> His latest work is "Images" released in 2013 for the
>>> Dreyfus / BMG label.
>>>
>>> His sound and technique are influenced by artists such
>>> as John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Julian "Cannonball"
>>> Adderley and Art Pepper, although the saxophonist,
>>> inspired by these great masters, has been able to
>>> develop a very personal style, and an absolutely timbre.
>>> new. The great Italian composer Gianni Ferrio called him
>>> the "millenote boy", writing the liner notes of Rosario
>>> Giuliani's "Tension" album, recorded in 1998 for Schema
>>> Records, all dedicated to compositions for the cinema of
>>> the maestro and others musicians, reproposed in a jazz key.
>>> Send feedback
>>> History
>>> Saved
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/07/2019 15:53, Marek Boym wrote:
>>>> Does any of you know the pianist Moroni and the
>>>> saxophonist Giuliani? They are scheduled to play an
>>>> Ellington programme in February as part of our "Hot
>>>> Jazz" series.
>>>> Right now I'm listening to them playing "Lennie's
>>>> Pennies," and it seems that, while the pianist sounds
>>>> fine, the saxophonist is far from an OKOM'er.
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
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