I wrote few times names of some artists but is difficult because I never listen to only one or fews artists and I'm never fixed in only one, I listen to music generally. I'm a big Beatles fan, I love Mozart, I listen to pop, rock, jazz, latin, salsa.....bla bla....I listen to music. M.Camilo, C.Corea, H.Duran, C.Valdes, R.Fonseca, a bit of all (or many of them) from the latin side jazz players. I really like the Afromantra sound, Nueva Manteca, the Sammy Figueroa's band...as I said, lot of music, good music. I love Sting, D.Fagen, rock bands like Aereosmith, I can continue just giving names of artists I listen to, better say I listen to music and I'm from everyone a fan!
Influences I get everyday by living, the seeshore, my far away Colombia bring me very often inspirations, love, religion, Jesus, everything can give me an imput to start a composition, basicly comes all direct and spontaneous.
Sounds Like
Afromantra, Wendell Rivera, Sammy Figueroa, Ralph Irizarry, David Murray, Elio Villafranca, etc.... (actually I don't really know.... I can nominate
lot of latinjazz bands and musicians...., we just play...!)
"Hamlet and his Latin Jazz Experience" is a brand new septet founded by Hamlet Fiorilli, pianist and composer with Colombian and Italian origins. All tunes are Hamlet's original compositions. He combines his strong latin roots with a particular sense for traditiional jazz flavors. The band is located in Carinthia (Austria). The seven top musicians create their own atmosphere, tastefully mixing jazz improvisations with the colors, flavors and traditions of Hamlet's music, resulting in a powerful sound ready to catch and surprise the listener.
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Hamlet was born in Bogotà, Colombia in 1967. The family moved to Italy, and he soon began his musical studies on clarinet and drums, and later at age 13 on piano, studying with a private teacher for one year. He then continued instinctively learning by playing, as he still does today, considering himself more a musician than a pianist. Concurrently to the above studies, he took his diploma in french horn at the P. Mascagni conservatory of Livorno, also studying composition, choir conducting and classical percussion, and finished his arranging studies with a private teacher in the Berkley school method.
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Piano became his main instrument; he started professionally with his father's latin band "Macondo" at age 15, also replacing his piano teacher on the local jazz bigband. There followed many concerts with different bands, playing many genres, helping him develop a big, open view of music. At age 17 he played a few seasons on cruise ships around Europe, North Africa and Russia and later moved to Monte Carlo, Divonne Les Bains, and Vienna, playing in prestigious clubs and hotels. In Italy he formed a pop-rock band called "Animali Rari," performing hundreds of concerts around the country, winning prizes and participating in natioinal radio and tv shows. He was the youngest orchestral conductor/arranger on the important Sanremo Festival, and collaborated with artists on the Italian pop scene, including Marina Fiordaliso, Fiorella Pierobon, Giorgia, Vinicio Capossela, Maurizio Solieri and Daniele Tedeschi (guitarist and drummer of Vasco Rossi.) On the salsa side he played a few years with Jairo's Tribu Tayrona (Columbia) and again travelled Europe playing in Cannes, Luxemburg, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and in Trinidad (Cuba) made several performances with the salsa band "Sonora Trinitaria." Hamlet is also currently playing with the American singer Gail Anderson.
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www.latinjazzexperience.com
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Debut CD "Descarumbiando" out now! Available at the CD Baby online store
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR VISIT HAMLET. WORKING WITH MY NEW BAND (NO NAME YET) INDIAN-FLAMENCO MUSIC-JAZZ-(CHILLOUT) PREMIERE IN TWO WEKKS MUCH LOVE FRIENDS.
Greetings to you guys, Its live, full of rhythm and well textured, look forward to hearing more of it all, possibly live in the future. Good luck and welcome to our collective Musical Circus ! Dave Silk Double bass
Gracias a ti por aceptarme la amistad! Tremenda musica!! y que VIVA VIVA siempre nuestra colombia tierra querida! besos y abrazos desde Australia! Rose
--"The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova and the Popular Music of Brazil"
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Hola Hamlet. Hace un tiempo te envie un correo por myspace felicitandote por tu disco. Ya lo recibi y lo he escuchado varias veces, esta soberbio. Un abrazo. H.
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