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Enzo Rocco

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Released: Apr 8, 2007
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  • Genre: Experimental / Jazz

    Location Crema, IT

    Profile Views: 49519

    Last Login: 10/21/2011

    Member Since 4/7/2007

    Website www.enzorocco.com

    Record Label Caligola Records, Splasc(h) Records, various

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .... ..INTERVIEW IN ITALIAN (AllAboutJazzItaliaSeptember2010).. .... ..MORE VIDEOS on www.youtube.com/enzoroccochannel.. .... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- .... CLICK THE BLUE WORDS FOR FURTHER INFOS, PLEASE ! .... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...... .. Jazz and irony, world music and amusement, dance and improvisation: the music of the "wacky Italian" guitarist ..Enzo Rocco.. .. is a mix of contemporary jazz, free improvisation and folk music from all around the world always dressed with that generous.. amount of humour and of sense of theatre that always make so tasty his shows..... .. After the eight-years experience of the ..TUBATRIO.. - his own group with Giancarlo Schiaffini (one of the fathers of the Italian.. free-jazz) on trombone/tuba and Ettore Fioravanti on drums (historical member of the Paolo Fresu Quintet) - Rocco conducts .. the new, ironic, fresh ..EPPI TRIO.. with Simone Mauri (clarinets) and Francesco D’Auria (percussions)..... Besides he continues to play all around the world in the humoristic duet born in 1997 with ..CARLO ACTIS DATO.. (elected by .. Down Beat as one of the best world baritone sax players in the world). In 2009 the two musicians also created the .. ..ACTISROCCOQUARTET.. (first concert at the "Jazz à Carthage" festival) featuring the TUBA player ..Fiorenzo Gualandris....... From ’99 collaboration with ..LOL COXHILL and VERYAN WESTON.. – cd “..London Gigs..” – and other English musicians..... On October 2003 first tour (in Latin America) for the ..ITALIAN SONG PROJECT.., a quartet born by a commission of the Italian.. Cultural Istitute in Buenos Aires and dedicated to the arrangement of the most famous Italian songs..... From Janyuary 2004 also a duo with the Scottish drummer ..TOM BANCROFT.., winner of the ..2007 BBC Jazz on 3 Innovation.. Award.., was born thanks to the suggestion of the director of the Edinburgh Jazz Festival (concerts in some important festivals.. in UK: London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cheltenham, etc.)..... From Febryary 2005 a new ..FRENCH TRIO.. purchased by the “Cri du Port” of Marseille with FREDERIC MONINO (electric bass).. and BRUNO TOCANNE (drums)..... Of course he is always active with top improvisers from everywhere, from ..Latin America.. to Japan….... .. “Jazz = funky/neapolitan/electronic/blues mixed with verdi’s/heavy metal/opera mixed with russian/yodel/waltz of santo domingo.. mixed with an hard japanese noise- lullaby sang by an italian romantic crooner…”.... .. As a leader of his own groups he has performed in festivals and clubs in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands,.. Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Romania, Scandinavia, Lithuania, Russia, India, Japan, Indonesia, Africa, Brasil, Chile,.. Argentina, Uruguay. .... .. Rocco’s CDs have been reviewed all over the world: Musica Jazz, Jazzit, Ritmo, Drum Club, Guitar Club, All Music Guide to Jazz,.. All About Jazz, Cadence, Coda, The Improvisor, Improjazz, Jazzman, Jazz Magazine, Cuadernos de Jazz, Jazz Podium, Resonance, .. Jazz Rytmit, Jazz Around, Jazz&Tzaz, Jazznytt, Jazz Live, Jazz Hihyo (Japan), Jazz Life (Japan), Jazz Quadrat (Russia) and a lot of .. websites, radios, newspapers and magazines in Europe, Usa, Japan, New Zealand, Latin America... .. .. .. .... ........ ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ......
  • Members

    ..Fine Tuning: NEW Coxhill-Rocco CD!!!...... ------------------------------------------------------------------.. CLICK THE BLUE WORDS FOR FURTHER INFOS, PLEASE ! ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. ....EPPI TRIO..:.. simone mauri/clarinets..enzo rocco/guitar..francesco d'auria/drums.... ..ACTIS DATO/ROCCO DUO..:.. carlo actis dato/baritone sax-bass clarinet..enzo rocco/guitar.... ..ACTISROCCO QUARTET.. .... ..(www.myspace.com/actisroccoquartet).. :.. carlo actis dato/baritone sax-bass clarinet..enzo rocco/guitar..fiorenzo gualandris/tuba....stefano bertoli/batteria.... ..TRIO FRANCAIS..:.. enzo rocco/guitar..frederic monino/electric bass..bruno tocanne/drums.... ..TOM BANCROFT/ENZO ROCCO DUO:.... tom bancroft/drums..enzo rocco/guitar.... ..ITALIAN SONG PROJECT..:.. eleonora d'ettole/voice..simone mauri/clarinets..enzo rocco/guitar..francesco d'auria/drums.... ....SPAGHETTI JAZZ....: .. enzo rocco/guitar..fabio crespiatico/electric bass..ferdinando faraò/drums.. ..(musiche di rota e morricone, giuseppeverdi e ritapavone)...... ..LONDON GIGS..:.. duets and trios with ..veryan weston .., ..lol coxhill...... .. E.R. BUENOS AIRES TRIO.... rodigo dominguez/saxes.. enzo rocco/guitar.. hernan mandelman/drums.... ..PABLO LEDESMA/ENZO ROCCO DUO.... pablo ledesma/soprano sax.. enzo rocco/guitar .... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... ...... ............
  • Influences

    every kind of music in the world, but above all good books, films, food, places and people..…ma leggete un po' qua, se avete tempo..
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