CAM Jazz
GIOVANNI GUIDI
Born in Foligno, Italy, in 1985, Giovanni Guidi first showed interest in
music at the tender age of three, when he received a toy drumset as a gift. At twelve, he began to study the piano. During his studies at the summer masterclasses in Siena, he began to attract the attention of Enrico Rava, who later asked him to join the group Rava Under 21, and subsequently Rava New Generation. It was with this later incarnation that Guidi appeared on a nationally distributed bonus CD for the magazine“L’Espresso.”
In addition to the continuing collaboration with Rava, he performs in the Mauro Negri Quartet, the Lello Pareti Quartet, Gianluca Petrella’s Cosmic Music Orchestra and leads a quartet of his own. Guidi has performed in a number of important festivals, including Umbria Jazz, Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival, Ubi Jazz, Vicenza New Conversation, Umbria Jazz Balkanic Windows, Zurich Nu Jazz, and the Fandango Jazz Festival.
At Umbria Jazz 2006, he appeared as an artist-in-residence, performing ten consecutive nights to very enthusiastic crowds.
With his quartet, featuring three other young jazz musicians: American Dan Kinzelman on woodwinds, Stefano Senni on bass, and the Portuguese drummer Joao Lobo, Guidi demonstrates his talents as a pianist and composer.
The quartet performs a series Guidi’s original compositions, strongly influenced by popular music, but with very uncommon harmonic structures, and characterized by a profound melodic sense. In addition to these originals, the quartet performs fresh versions of pieces by musicians as varied as Ornette Coleman, Hampton Hawes, Radiohead and Bjork.
The Giovanni Guidi Trio released a CD for the Japanese record company VENUS. The CD, “Tomorrow Never Knows,” received five stars in a recent review by the magazine “Swing Journal.”
In February 2007 the CD “Indian Summer” was released by CAM JAZZ.
Giovanni Guidi has been named "Best New Talent" by a jury of 58 journalists and critics in a poll entitled "TOP JAZZ 2007," held yearly by the Italian magazine "Musica Jazz." In 2008 was released his new album called "The House Behind This One".
Enrico Rava
Aldo Gianolio (Musica Jazz)
Thomas Conrad (Jazz Times)
Federico Scoppio (Musica Jazz)
Sergio Pasquandrea (Jazzit)
Vincenzo Roggero (AllAbout Jazz)
