Nov 11 Mon ICI PIANIST GIOVANNI MAZZARINO TRIO
Nov 10 Mon 6pm ICI GIOVANNI MAZZARINO TRIO
Posted on November 3, 2014 by textgenie
Monday, November 10th
6PM
Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue
New York
TO RSVP PLEASE CLICK
HERE
Giovanni Mazzarino: piano
Marco Panascia: bass
Marcello Pellitteri: drums
GIOVANNI MAZZARINO TRIO IN CONCERT
GIOVANNI MAZZARINO TRIO IN CONCERT
Giovanni Mazzarino was born on May 26, 1965.
He has been playing jazz since 1980. He’s considered one of the most important Italian jazz players; he performed with very important musicians such as:
Enzo Randisi, Gianni Basso, Franco Cerri, Massimo Urbani, Enrico Rava, Flavio Boltro, Francesco Bearzatti, Paolo Fresu, Fabrizio Bosso, Francesco Cafiso, Max Ionata, Mark Murphy, Steve Swallow, Tom Harrell, Randy Brecker, Steve Grossmann, Bob Mintzer, Lester Bowie, Jimmy Cobb, Adam Nussbaum, Kurt Rosenwinkel and many others.
In 2002 he was awarded by the Top Italian Jazz Award as best new brand Jazz artist.
He performed as jazz piano player and composer for several worldwide famous jazz festivals: Umbria Jazz, Marciac Jazz Festival, Dubai Philips Jazz Festival, Euro Jazz Festival (Mexico City), International Festivals (Venezuela and Colombia), Jakarta Jazz Festival(Indonesia), International Jazz Festival of Lima(Perù), House of Jazz (Rome), Sicilian Symphonic Orchestra (Palermo), Jazz Center (Istanbul), National Theater and the National Portrait Gallery (London), University of Brussels, Paris, Stockholm, Wien, Milan, New York.He recorded 16 albums as bandleader and composer.
Concert Program
– Oh Que Sarà (Chico Buarque)
– Nobody Else But Me (Jerome Kern)
– Waltz For Ruth( Charlie Haden)
– Wrong Together(Steve Swallow)
– Piazza ( Giovanni Mazzarino)
– Moonlight Serenade( Glen Miller)
HOW IT TURNED OUT
The trio was serviceable in furthering the pianist’s explorations of harmony but unfortunately Giovanni – it has to be said – is apparently one of those pianists who perhaps has been listening to too much West Coast keyboard and who has never developed a proper sense of phrasing related to the human voice, which is after all the whole basis of good music, and thus despite the fact he is fully in command of the keyboard harmonically he too often produced an endless series of twiddling and tiddling which sounds like little more than doodling, that is to say, mere fingerwork without sufficienbt vocal meaning, ie not drawn from the intonations of speech, which as far as we are concerned is the ultimate source of the repertoire of phrases used by the leading jazz instrumentalists.
Luckily however the bassist was melodically very accomplished and the drummer as original as always so the combination was successful, though a high point came with the too brief addition of two short and serious 15 year old schoolboys from Sicily who were masterful phrasemakers on trumpet and saxophone and created a unique experience which suggested they will be very distinguished players on the Italian and even global level.
Read MorePosted on November 3, 2014 by textgenie
Monday, November 10th
6PM
Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue
New York
TO RSVP PLEASE CLICK
HERE
Giovanni Mazzarino: piano
Marco Panascia: bass
Marcello Pellitteri: drums
GIOVANNI MAZZARINO TRIO IN CONCERT
GIOVANNI MAZZARINO TRIO IN CONCERT
Giovanni Mazzarino was born on May 26, 1965.
He has been playing jazz since 1980. He’s considered one of the most important Italian jazz players; he performed with very important musicians such as:
Enzo Randisi, Gianni Basso, Franco Cerri, Massimo Urbani, Enrico Rava, Flavio Boltro, Francesco Bearzatti, Paolo Fresu, Fabrizio Bosso, Francesco Cafiso, Max Ionata, Mark Murphy, Steve Swallow, Tom Harrell, Randy Brecker, Steve Grossmann, Bob Mintzer, Lester Bowie, Jimmy Cobb, Adam Nussbaum, Kurt Rosenwinkel and many others.
In 2002 he was awarded by the Top Italian Jazz Award as best new brand Jazz artist.
He performed as jazz piano player and composer for several worldwide famous jazz festivals: Umbria Jazz, Marciac Jazz Festival, Dubai Philips Jazz Festival, Euro Jazz Festival (Mexico City), International Festivals (Venezuela and Colombia), Jakarta Jazz Festival(Indonesia), International Jazz Festival of Lima(Perù), House of Jazz (Rome), Sicilian Symphonic Orchestra (Palermo), Jazz Center (Istanbul), National Theater and the National Portrait Gallery (London), University of Brussels, Paris, Stockholm, Wien, Milan, New York.He recorded 16 albums as bandleader and composer.
Concert Program
– Oh Que Sarà (Chico Buarque)
– Nobody Else But Me (Jerome Kern)
– Waltz For Ruth( Charlie Haden)
– Wrong Together(Steve Swallow)
– Piazza ( Giovanni Mazzarino)
– Moonlight Serenade( Glen Miller)
HOW IT TURNED OUT
The trio was serviceable in furthering the pianist’s explorations of harmony but unfortunately Giovanni – it has to be said – is apparently one of those pianists who perhaps has been listening to too much West Coast keyboard and who has never developed a proper sense of phrasing related to the human voice, which is after all the whole basis of good music, and thus despite the fact he is fully in command of the keyboard harmonically he too often produced an endless series of twiddling and tiddling which sounds like little more than doodling, that is to say, mere fingerwork without sufficienbt vocal meaning, ie not drawn from the intonations of speech, which as far as we are concerned is the ultimate source of the repertoire of phrases used by the leading jazz instrumentalists.
Luckily however the bassist was melodically very accomplished and the drummer as original as always so the combination was successful, though a high point came with the too brief addition of two short and serious 15 year old schoolboys from Sicily who were masterful phrasemakers on trumpet and saxophone and created a unique experience which suggested they will be very distinguished players on the Italian and even global level.
