DISCOGRAPHY AS LEADER OR CO-LEADER "Urban Adventure" with Paolo Birro, Simone Monnanni, Yoann Serra, François Chassagnite (track 1,4,8), Jean Marc Jafet (track 7) e Architorti (track 2,7) (Elabeth ELA 621054) 2005; "How deep is the Ocean” with Zlatko Kaucic and Nicola Muresu (Splasc(h) Records - CD H935.2) 2004; “Small Changes” with Changes: Stefano Battaglia, Piero Leveratto, Fabrizio Sferra (Splasc(h) Records – CDH 733.2) 2001; “Theodore Walter ‘Sonny' Rollins: an homage from Italy” with Sandro Gibellini, Dario Deidda, Luigi Bonafede (Philology - w186.2)2001; “L'ange caché” with Aldo Romano, Paolo Fresu, Remy Vignolo, Nathalie Loriers, (Pygmalion records – 595282); “May Day” with Paolo Birro (CDpM Lion – 114-2) 1997; “Hidden songs” with Paolo Birro (Splasc(h) Records) 2001; “Giochi di nuvole” (DDQ – Soul Note – 128022-2) 1996; “Where Are You” feat. Enrico Rava (Modern Times – MDT 30122) 1994; “Scalabrun” with Furio Di Castri, Paolo Fresu, Andrea Dulbecco, Francesco Sotgiu, Loris Bertot (JVS 001-2) 1996; Five for Jazz, “Soulscapes” (DDQ-Soul Note – 128018-2) 1996 with Flavio Boltro, Luigi Bonafede, Rosario Bonaccorso, Francesco Sotgiu;
Influences
From 1985 to 2005 Emanuele Cisi collaborated with:
Nat Adderley, Gary Bartz, Lou Blackbourn, Walter Booker, Cameron Brown, George Cables, Tommy Campbell, Jimmy Cobb, Billy Cobham, Bobby Durham, Bruce Forman, Benny Golson, Steve Grossman, Billy Hart, Albert “Tootie” Heat, Red Holloway, Vic Juris, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Owens, Reggie Johnson, Akira Tana, Clark Terry, Toqinho, Warren Vaché, Jimmy Woody, Eliot Zigmund, Wessell Anderson, Area II, Flavio Boltro, Luigi Bonafede, Salvatore Bonafede, Giulio Capiozzo, Rossana Casale, Gigi Cifarelli, Furio Di Castri, Tullio De Piscopo, Antonio Faraò, Paolo Fresu, Roberto Gatto, Sandro Gibellini, Paul McCandless, Dado Moroni, Enrico Rava, Aldo Romano, Michel Benita, André Ceccarelli, N'Guyen Le, Daniel Humair, Sixun, Louis Winsberg, Francois Chassagnite, Giovanni Tommaso, Kenny Wheeler, Eros Ramazzotti, Bruno Lauzi, Fabio Concato, Angelo Branduardi, Stefano Bollani, Sting.
He began using the alto saxophone at the age of sixteen taking private lessons, continuing thereafter with as a self-taught musician. Two years later he dropped the alto saxophone for the tenor and the soprano. He then partook in several seminars with important Italian musicians and, in 1986, with Michael Breker.
At nineteen years of age he began his professional carrier playing with different musicians from the area of Turin, at twenty-one he was called to take part in a historical reformed group called “Area”, his first important booking which then put him in the spot light nationwide leading to the participation in tours, festivals, broadcasting programmes and also in he recording of an album.
From 1990 to 1998 he moved to Milan where he started new and lasting collaborations with, among others, Antonio Faraò Luigi Bonafede, Massimo Colombo; in 1994 he set up the first quartet in his name with Paolo Birro, Marco Micheli, Francesco Sotgiu and he recorded his first album in his name thanks to which, in January 1995, he won the “Top Jazz” critic poll and was described by the magazine Musica Jazz, as “ Best new talent ”. From 1996 his activity abroad intensified, especially in Paris where he played regularly in the pianist Jean Pierre Como's group, with whom he recorded the album un disco per le Blue Note . He also began collaborating with the Swiss drummer Daniel Humair. In 1996 he founded, together with Luigi Bonafede, The Five for Jazz , with Flavio Boltro, Francesco Sotgiu and Rosario Bonaccorso, and with them recorded an album.
His name appeared once again in “Top Jazz” of January 1997: as one of the ten Italian musicians and his CD a duo with Paolo Birro “May Day” is one of the ten albums of the year.
From 1999 he played more and more in France and abroad also performing on tour in China in July '99 (1° Heineken Beat of Beijing). In October of 2000 he released his first album in his name in France with, among others, Aldo Romano and Paolo Fresu, an album that immediately received considerable recognition from “Jazz up” of Radio Paris and a “Coup de Coeur” from the television chain Muzik. In 2001 the album “Hidden Songs” received appraisal in France and the influential weekly paper “Tèlèrama” listed it as one of the best CDs of the year (from the distinguished music critic Michel Contat). In between 1999 and 2001 he performed in various international bands: as a duo with Paolo Birro, as a trio with the Swiss drummer Daniel Humair and Paolino Dalla Porta, as a trio with the Slovenian Zlatko Kaucic and Nicola Muresu and as a the leader of a quartet with the Belgian pianist Nathalie Loriers, Remy Vignolo, Aldo Romano, and with the Vietnamese guitarist N'Guyen Le, and Michel Benita. In the year 2000 he formed, with the pianist Stefano Battaglia, the group “Changes” , together with Piero Leveratto and Fabrizio Sferra, with whom he recorded an album and performed with in Italy, France and Belgium.
From 2001 to 2004 he carried out intense concert performances at a high international levels. From September 2001 up until today (2004) he is a soloist in the French drummer Aldo Romano's group “Because of Bechet”, with Emmanuel Bex, Remi Vignolo, and Francesco Bearzatti. With this group he released an album for Universal and participated in over seventy concerts, playing in shows all over France, performing on the most prestigious of transalpine stages and also organizing a tour, in October 2004, on Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean. Meanwhile he collaborates, with continuity, in various bands directed by the French bassist Jean Marc Jafet, with Paul Ceccarelli, Robert Persi, Christian Escoudé, Babik Reinardht, Marcia Maria and others, and in a quintet with the French trumpet player Francois Chassagnite with whom he has been invited, for two consecutive years now, to the important festival of Marciac. Since 2002 he has been playing in a trio with the Slovenian drummer Zlatko Kaucic and Nicola Muresu and with them he has been on several tours in both Slovenia and Italy.
In 2004 he founded a new Italo-French quartet in his name , with Paolo Birro, Yoann Serra and Simone Monnanni, with them recorded a new album in Antibes. In 2004 he was called to be part of the roman pianist Enrico Pieranunzi's group , participating, in one of many, to the “Fellini Jazz” project holding concerts in Paris and in other main Italian festivals.
Emanuele Cisi at Rampone & Cazzani Saxophone Manufactury
Anche se solo per un pezzo è stato molto bello e diverso suonare con te,ho sentito qualcosa che non avevo mai sentito prima da nessun'altro musicista e verso la fine stranamente mi sono arreso alla tua presenza...è stato troppo strano ma se ci sarà una prossima volta farò di tutto per sostenerti bene fino alla fine!mitico!...e grazie per l'add!
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Jon to Emanuele: Greetings from Times Square New York Emanuele! You are sounding real good there in Italy, tres bien! If you come in USA be sure to contact me. Keep up the great work on tenor saxo, best luck always, Jon (Hammond) *Member American Federation of Musicians Union Local 802 ASCAP *From Russia With Love: Jon Hammond Trio in Moscow Concerts Watch Video *Here
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Ciao Emanuele tut ok? ti ho spedito il cd a torino...lo hai trovato?:-) fammi sapere ke ne pensi.... ehy non abbandoniamo il mega trio con cristian...! a presting PM
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Ciao Emanuele!nuovo space?? bello e spero di vederti presto...provvedo a metterti in TOp friends... il disco "zawinul tribute"sara' pubblicato finalmente Wide Sound e sara' pronto per aprile... ti tengo aggiornato a dp PM
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