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Duo Cavaleri/Amatulli plays Giorgio Occhipinti’s Cello Sequenzas
Tiziana Cavaleri has graduated in cello at the Conservatory of Catania (Sicily). From 1986 until 1995 she was a member of the Orchestra of the “V. Bellini” Theatre, and in the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana. She also worked with Carmen Consoli and Mario Venuti, two pop artists. Since 1999 she’s playing the music of Occhipinti. Vito Amatulli has graduated at the Conservatory of Monopoli. He collaborates with symphonic orchestras and with several groups of Bruno Tommaso. Since 1995 he’s a member of Occhipinti’s Hereo Ensemble “Alberòmino”, Hereo Ottetto, Nonetto and Tentet.
December Thirty Jazz Trio
It’s appropriate that the trio is democratically named, for this is genuine group-music, a highly accomplished and detailed mixture of form and improvisation, touching on jazz and avant-garde elements alike. The key player is, in many ways, Francesco Branciamore whose propulsive and momentous playing suggests an orchestral concept and who never lets the music settle into random doodling. Besides his work with this trio he also is leading Trade D’Union (with Mazzon, Rutherford and Godard). He recorded different CD’s with the December Thirty Jazz Trio, with his quartet (Flash in Four) and as a solo artist (Meloritmoarmonico). During the years he worked with musicians like Enrico Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi,Keith Tippet, Lee Konitz, Barre Phillips, Evan Parker, Ray Mantilla, and Pierre Favre. He also composed theatre music for Coefore of Eschilo (National Institute of the Ancient Play), for Talent of B. Tirri, and for the theatrical version “La Lupa” from Giovanni Verga. Giorgio Occhipinti varies his contributions from locked-hands passages to long, meandering lines, but seldom seems at a loss for an idea, even over some very long pieces. His style is difficult to pin down – which is probably a good thing. Occhipinti’s charisma and musical personality oozes from every note and he anchors the music from the piano with colossal energy and drive. Giuseppe Guarrella plays with unassuming virtuosity. He played with several symphonic orchestras and chamber music groups. He’s also leader of the Sicilian Quartet and co-leader of the Furious Quartet (with Joëlle Léandre, Barre Phillips and Lelio Giannetto. He’s also a member of Maltese’s Sikilli Ensemble and Sombra del Sur Orchestra. He collaborated with Evan Parker, Konrad Bauer, Ludwig Petrowsky, Paul Rutherford, Michel Godard, Lee Konitz, Miriam Palma, Pino Minafra, Paolo Fresu, Roberto Ottaviano, and Arkady Schilkloper.
Vinny Golia Quintet
Vinny Golia has been a central figure in the West Coast avant-garde for many years, and with his Nine Winds label he’s been undertaking virtually a one-man documentation of the improvising underground of California – far less ‘fashionable’ than anything in New York, but no less significant in the grain of American free jazz. By himself, in the small-group context, Golia reveals an obsession with doubling on numerous instruments: he plays 11 different woodwinds, changing the weave with each different reed. The concerts at the Jazz’halo Music Days will be recorded for later release on our label.
Concert production: Jazz’halo Tonesetters-vkh – Groenhovestraat 38 – 8820 Torhout
phone : 050 21 53 99 – fax : 050 21 42 08 - e-mail: josdemol_jazzhalo@pi.be
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