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STEFANO TROTA TRIO
Italy
11 /
23 / 2001 |
Stefano
TROTA guitar
Luigi
MOSSO bass
Paolo
GARELLI drums |
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. |
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. |
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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