Jazz Music from 1920 to the present... Great arrangers such as Claus Ogerman, Gil Evans, Billy Strayhorn, Oliver Nelson ... Classical : Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Ravel, Respighi, Hindemith... Pop : Earth Wind & Fire, Marvin Gaye, Al Jarreau, Anita Baker... any good song with a groove, beautiful harmonies and nice lyrics... Latin music too: Ruben Blades, A.C Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Ray Barreto, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Danilo Perez ... I have to mentionned the main influences in my musical writing: Mark Turner, Sam Newsome, Billy Childs and John Stubblefield.
Movies
The reasons why I became a Jazz musicians are in this video: Bird, Hawk, Pres, Ella, Flip.......
Charlie Bird Parker & Friends.
Charlie Bird Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Bill Harris, Ella Fitzgerald and other great jazz players in rare footages of an unfinished film produced by Norman Granz, New York, 1950..........
Any Angelopoulos movies, most of Kusturica, Fellini, Scorcese and Scola movies too....
Television
Football, Serie A, Ligue 1, Liga, 1st League, Champion's League ;-):-):-)
Books
These days : " Politique étrangère de la France, diplomatie & outil militaire", Doise-Vaïsse... "Chevaliers du Christ, les ordres religieux-militaires au Moyen Age" A.Demurger... "Histoire et geopolitique des Balkans de 1800 a nos jours" E.Weibel... " La vie quotidienne à Rome à l'apogee de l'Empire" J.Carcopino... " Penser le guerre, Clausewitz" R.Aron...."L'esprit de l' athéisme" Comte-Sponville, "Réflexion sur l'histoire de l'art" Wölfflin..."Guerre de religions dans les Balkans" T.Mudry..."L'agonie yougoslave" R.Lukic...." Traité d'athéologie" M. Onfray..."introduction à l'histoire des relations internationales" Renouvin & Duroselle...
Heroes
My late father Jean-Paul Gatto, my late friend John Stubblefield, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, George Cables, George Duvivier, Wendell Marshall, Robert Hurst III, Charles Farmborough, Thelonious Monk, Rocco LoFaro, Bird and Diz, Sergiu Celibidache...Darius Milhaud... Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese, Fernand Braudel, Marco-Aurelio, Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint Exupéry....
Juventus Team from past to present:
Michel Platini, Roberto Bettega,Zinedine Zidane, Gianluca Zambrotta, Lilian Thuram,Alessandro Del Pierro, David Trezeguet....Oscar de la Hoya....
olivier gatto's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Networking
Orientation:
Straight
Body type:
5' 11" / Athletic
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Aquarius
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
College graduate
Occupation:
jazz bassist,composer & arranger
olivier gatto's Schools
Berklee College Of Music
Boston,MA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Jazz Comp & Arranging
I worked as a freelance bass player with many jazz greats : Joe Henderson, Billy Cobham, Benny Golson, Lee Konitz...for my own groups check out www.myspace.com/oliviergattoprojects
Merry christmas for you Olivier and your loved ones. Kisses to Danilo. May the new year bring you health, love, good friends, dreams to come true, inspiration, success, truth, light, good gigs and many many happy moments. With warm thoughts, Afroditi
hahaha I did not know you wrote me.. yes.. I am back to civilization! finally.. Atlanta...my bed.. my kitchen and my home was calling me! :-) the only thing missing is ... _________________ (you know)
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