Margherita Fava Quartet
Schedule
Sat Sep 07 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:15 pm
Location
Rudy's Jazz Room (809 Gleaves St., Nashville, TN) | Nashville, TN
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"Jazz today is full of whiz kids with plenty of virtuosity at their disposal but with little to say musically. The Italian-born Margherita Fava is something altogether different. The evidence is all over her debut recording, TATATU. At 27, Fava is not only a fluent pianist but also a compelling composer and bandleader - creative, communicative, and less interested in surface flash than forging an emotional connection with listeners and expressing an individual concept through a band built in her image. Fava has a sharp mind for savvy musical forms but also a sensitive ear for expressive storytelling. She is not just interested in the what of music but the why." - Mark StrykerPianist, composer and arranger Margherita Fava grew up in a family of classical musicians in the small village of Follina in northeast Italy. Her parents are baroque specialists, her father a violinist and her mother a cellist and singer.
Fava started piano lessons at 10, picked up the electric bass as a teenager, and at 17 enrolled in a summer jazz program in nearby Venice sponsored by The New School from New York. One day she learned by ear Miles Davis’ solo on “So What” from Kind of Blue. It changed her life. “It was the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me!” she says.
A scholarship to Michigan State brought Fava to East Lansing, where she studied piano with Xavier Davis and came into the orbit of the charismatic bassist Rodney Whitaker. After graduating with a degree in jazz studies, she earned a master’s degree in music at the University of Tennessee, studying piano with Eric Reed and composition with Greg Tardy. She currently collaborates with the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra on various projects like the concert series “NXT GEN” and the Knoxville Jazz Workshop.
In August 2022 she released her first EP of original music entitled “Okra/Search of the Unknown”, available on bandcamp. On March 10th 2023 her debut album “TATATU” was released, featuring Gregory Tardy, Michael Reed and Javier Enrique. The record received numerous positive reviews, including 4 stars on Downbeat and AllAboutJazz.
Margherita Fava - piano
David Williford - saxophone
Rob Linton - bass
Kirk Woodard - drums
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