[Dixielandjazz] Dado Moroni and Rosario Giuliani

Fri Jul 5 16:55:12 EDT 2019

Not stubborn, Steve, just experienced.  And whatever your ears tell you,
I'll still listen with mine.  I could take what you have written, just not
the music you've been recommending since times immemorial (to me; the
earliest Jazz Journal I read was from 1964, but you had started writing
there earlier.
Cheers

On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 at 19:02, Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote:

> 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> 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> 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>
>> 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>
>>> 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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