Unplugged | No |
Cover band | No |
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Label / Release | Type | Year | |
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ECM | |||
City Of Broken Dreams | Album | 2013 |
His fifth album as a leader, “CITY OF BROKEN DREAMS” was released in March 2013 by ECM. Guidi is accompanied by Thomas Morgan, one of New York's finest musicians as well as frequent collaborator drummer Joao Lobo from Portugal.
The trio performed two successful concert tours in Europe following the release.
In the spring, of the same year, he has recorded one concert as a sideman with Enrico Rava with the Teatro Regio Symphonic Orchestra of Torino and the latest incarnation of Rava’s quintet, in which the original voice of Guidi is an important defining characteristic. The album has been released on October 2013.
He has continued to work as a sideman in various formations including Enrico Rava "Tribe" and Enrico Rava “PMJ Lab”, trombonist Gianluca Petrella's “Cosmic Band” as well as the new Petrella project “Il Bidone”, dedicated to Nino Rota's music, which has been released on June 2013 by Spacebone label. With the explosive Guidi/Petrella duo has recorded an album realeased on September 2013 by Italian Jazz magazine MUSICA JAZZ .On next Fall, with this duo, named “Soupstar” he will record a new album for ECM .
His groups as a leader include a new quintet with young sax revelation Mattia Cigalini, a trio with trumpet player Luca Aquino and percussionist Michele Rabbia and a ten piece band named “The Unknown Rebel Band”.
His new ECM album recorded in trio with Thomas Morgan and Joao Lobo will be out on February 2015.
Guidi was named best Italian pianist in 2011 by the magazine Insound, and the year-end poll of Italian magazine Musica Jazz placed him in 2nd as best pianist, only one point behind the winner. It's becoming clear that at just 29 years of age, Guidi is emerging as one of the most important voices of the new generation in Italy and abroad.
THOMAS MORGAN
Thomas Morgan is a double bass player, with both a unique approach to the instrument and musical understanding. He has been touring extensively all over the world as a member of Paul Motian’s bands, John Abercrombie Quartet, Dave Binney Quartet, Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet among many others. It is Thomas Morgan’s extraordinary way of being in the moment in the music and putting his own signature on it, that has made him one of the most in demand jazz bassists on the international scene today. He has been playing on more than 60 recordings and is currently touring with Craig Taborn Trio, The Dan Weiss/Jacob Sacks Trio, Mark Feldman – Sylvie Courvoisier Quartet, Jim Black Trio, Jakob Bro Trio, Giovanni Guidi Trio and others.
JOAO LOBO
João Lobo is a very active drummer in the European musical scene, having played in some of the most important jazz venues withmusicians such as Enrico Rava, Carlos Bica, Alexandra Grimal, Giovanni Guidi, and recording for record labels such as CamJazz and Clean Feed. He started playing drums at the age of 12 and began his formal education at the Hot Clube de Portugal Jazz School in Lisbon. In 2001 he moved to The Netherlands where he got a Bachelor Degree in jazz-percussion in 2006 and met a lot of musicianswith which he still colaborates. Despite his short career, João Lobo has already performed with some big names of the European and American jazz scene such as Roswell Rudd, Gianluca Petrella, Julian Arguelles, Nelson Veras, John Hebert and Michael Attias.
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VIDEOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZTQBvSdAp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHXT-DLjTiQ&list=PL3B9ujdeU3arfNcGVJMm8yHeukz7RyCNn
REVIEWS:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/mar/14/giovanni-guidi-broken-dreams-review
http://www.giovanniguidi.net/notizie/225/giovanni-guidi-trio-city-of-broken-dreams--stereophile.html
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44624
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44810
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/lifestyles-weekly-album-reviews-20130712-2put1.html
http://www.giovanniguidi.net/notizie/246/giovanni-guidi-trio--city-of-broken-dreams.html