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          |  STEFANO TROTA TRIO  
            Italy 
 
  11 / 
            23 / 2001 |  
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 Stefano 
            TROTA
 guitar
 Luigi 
            MOSSO
 bass
 Paolo 
            GARELLI
 drums
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 Original 
            compositions that give life to a project influenced by the jazz 
            vocational training of the members of the band, bringing them to a 
            real communicative thrust, so typical of 
            improvisation. A mixture of powerful 
            suggestion that rise from many types of contemporary styles with 
            strong partiality towards the sounds of the most important guitarist 
            of the States.
 
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          | Stefano 
            TROTA
 guitar
 
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 Born in 
            Italy in 1964, started his own career as a guitarist at the end of 
            the 70’s, playing in rock-oriented and funky 
            bands. Since 1983 he’s token approach to jazz 
            as a musician and got initial experiences in the Italian jazz 
            context, after developing a training period attending classes and 
            masters with teachers such as F. Daccò (Italian Institute of Jazz 
            Studies, Parma) J. Diorio (Bologna, 1991), B. Frisell (Perugia, 
            1992), J. Scofield (Ravenna, 1990), Trilok Gurtu (Ferrara, 1990). 
            He’s been playing for years in the Ivan Valentini project, with whom 
            he’s performed live concerts and released two records ("Paz" and 
            "Senza famiglia").
 In 1992 he joined a bend led by the 
            famous Italian trumpeter P. Fresu.
 Now, after leading 
            different bands and growing as a "song-writer", he dedicates most of 
            his musical activity to his own project, which is always in 
            evolution, taking the shape of the musicians who are part of 
            it.
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          | Luigi 
            MOSSO
 double and electric bass 
            player,
 singer,
 comedian
 
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 He starts 
            his musical studies in Siena jazz school with Bruno Tommaso and 
            Furio Di Castri. Since 1991 he starts playing several kind of music: 
            jazz, rock, ethnic, improvised music, music for theatre. He has 
            played with important musicians like Massimo Urbani, Paolo Fresu, 
            Enrico Rava, Antonello Salis, Lester Bowie, Don Moye, Steve Lacy, 
            Han Bennink, Peter Kowald, Tim Berne, Bob Moses, Lol Coxhill and 
            others. He recorded several CD: Sufi (S. Ordini Trio), Urgente 
            (Magma Trio), L’Inferno dei Polli (Jorge), Suite n° 1 per quintetto 
            doppio (Specchio Ensemble), Musical fitness, Raptus (Clangreco), Una 
            Barca (Vakki Plakkula), Postura 
            (Bosetti/Kowald). |  
          | Paolo 
            GARELLI
 drums
 
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 Born in 
            Modena in 1971, starts his musical activity in 1985 mainly as rock 
            drummer. Four years later his musical interests move towards jazz 
            music and he starts to study with the drummer Massimo Manzi. He also 
            attends an ensemble course with Paolo Fresu and then with Attilio 
            Zanchi. In 1994 he takes part at Umbria Jazz Clinics with the 
            Berklee School teachers and at Mister Jazz workshops with artists 
            like Han Bennink, Trilok Gurtu, Pierre Favre, Jon Christensen, Joey 
            Baron. In 1998 after passing the audition he attends a six months 
            course at Accademia Romana di Musica with Fabrizio Sferra, Danilo 
            Rea, Giovanni Tommaso, Maurizio Giammarco, Fabio 
            Zeppetella. Paolo Garelli collaborates with 
            different Italian musicians and teaches drums at the city hall 
            schools of Nonantola (MO) and Castelfranco 
            (MO).
 
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          |  | In co-operation 
            with Comune di Modene
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