Mediterranean Fragments: Netta / Di Puccio / Leotta / Marcelli

Name: Mediterranean Fragments: Netta / Di Puccio / Leotta / Marcelli
Start: 2024-12-26T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Schlot Jazz Club - Invalidenstraße 117, 10115 Berlin, Deutschland

Schedule

Thu, 26 Dec, 2024 at 09:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Schlot Jazz Club - Invalidenstraße 117, 10115 Berlin, Deutschland | Berlin, BE

Mediterranean Fragments: Netta / Di Puccio / Leotta / Marcelli

Tobias Netta - trumpet and flugelhorn
Alessandro Di Puccio - piano
Carmelo Leotta - bass
Andrea Marcelli - drums
Genre: Contemporary Mediterranean Jazz
https://www.alessandrodipuccio.com
www.andreamarcelli.com
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Netta
https://carmeloleotta.wixsite.com/carmeloleotta
Jazz Soloists coming from the Mediterranean area, mixing colors and rhythms, with contemporary Jazz and Mediterranean Soul. The band, which is part of the prolific Berlin Jazz Scene, includes refined pianist Alessandro Di Puccio from Florence, talented trumpet player Tobias Netta, creative bassist Carmelo Leotta from Lombardy and dynamic drummer Andrea Marcelli from Rome. They will present an interesting blend of original compositions and famous tunes from Jazz History. The Quartet will convey harmony and bring to everybody a beautiful message of peace through their music.
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ALESSANDRO DI PUCCIO, pianist, vibraphonist.
From the early '80s, he has played in the most important clubs, festivals and exhibitions in Italy and Europe, with jazz and world music musicians, like: Toots Thielemans, Albert Mangelsdorff, Mal Waldron, Stefano Bollani, Antonello Salis, Sal Nistico, Massimo Urbani, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Pietro Tonolo, Gianluigi Trovesi, Marco Tamburini, Paolo Birro, The Musipolitana orchestra, Bruno Tommaso, Enrico Pieranunzi, Luca Flores, Gianni Cazzola, Fabio Morgera, Franco D'Andrea, Larry Nocella, Rita Marcotulli, Alberto Marsico and SCOTT HAMILTON,
"Di Puccio is a fine vibraphone player who plays with the energy of a young Hampton, knows the blues like Bags and has listened to Hutcherson as well..." Larry Hollis - Cadence - March 1999
He has conducted and written compositions and arrangements for jazz orchestras and music for theatrical works.
He has founded together with other artists (photographers, musicians, painters and video makers) the Collective Fu.Ori.
They have been presented on numerous occasions including editions of the Florentine Jazz Festival “Settembre in Piazza della Passera” of which Alessandro is the artistic director since 2001.
He has held seminars on Improvisation in jazz in several Italian music schools and Conservatories.
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TOBIAS NETTA ist ein deutscher Jazz- und Improvisationsmusiker (Trompete, Flügelhorn).
Netta hat mit NoNett, Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton/Creative Music Ensemble Hamburg, Gunter Hampel,
Silke Eberhard (Elevator Music) und Achim Kaufmann konzertiert und aufgenommen.
Netta, der aus der Nähe von Münster stammt, studierte zwischen 1981 und 1987 an der Hochschule
für Musik und Tanz Köln. Anschließend arbeitete er professionell in Hamburg, Düsseldorf, New York,
Innsbruck und aktuell in Berlin. Unter eigenem Namen legte er 1990 ein selbstproduziertes Album vor.
2023/24 ist er mit dem Kelvin Sholar Trio und mit dem Alessandro Di Puccio Quintett aufgetreten.
Er ist auch auf weiteren Alben, etwa mit Udo Jürgens oder der Jugendbigband Neubrandenburg, zu hören.
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ANDREA MARCELLI - Drummer/composer born in Rome, Italy.
He moved to the USA in 1989 spending 8 years in Los Angeles
and 4 in New York. He is, since 2001, resident in Berlin/Germany.
He performed and/or recorded with Wayne Shorter, Don Menza,
David Liebman, Bob Mintzer, Harold Land, Markus Stockhausen,
Eddie Gomez, Mike Stern, Mitchel Forman, Allan Holdsworth,
Bob Berg, John Patitucci, Eberhard Weber, Alphonso Johnson,
Jeff Berlin, Palle Danielsson, Arild Anderson, Mike Mainieri,
Bob Sheppard, Frank Gambale, Hiram Bullock, Andy Summers,
Rick Margitza, and others.
During his career he performed in USA, Japan, India, Brazil, South Africa,
China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tunisia, Italy,
Germany, England, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Estonia,
France, Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, Lebanon and others.
Andrea recorded many CDS and two acclaimed solo CDs for legendary
Major Jazz Label VERVE/PolyGram with his original compositions.
He graduated in 1986 from the L. Refice Conservatory in Frosinone (Rome)
in Classical Clarinet, Jazz Composition and Arrangement.
Two of Andrea's compositions are included in "The European Real Book"
and "The Digital Real Book part two" by www.shermusic.com.
Andrea has more than 200 of his compositions recorded in CDs and
broadcasted world-wide.
- Wayne Shorter wrote: "Andrea Marcelli's music is as vibrant and
thought-provoking as today's events. Andrea is such a chameleon.
When I first heard his music, it struck me that he played drums,
clarinet, percussion, keyboards and composed in a variety of styles
that defied classification, moreover, his display of sensitivity and
creative approach to the work produced."
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CARMELO LEOTTA - BASS, professional musician since 1999.
In 2005 he met Bobby Durham and he joined his trio with Massimo Faraò until Durham sadly passed away, in 2008.
Then he stayed on the high level Italian jazz scene, frequently touring with famous American jazz musicians such as Archie Sheep, Benny Golson, Jimmy Cobb, Mickey Rocker, Michelle Hendrix and others.
He also played with: Archie Shepp, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Eliot Zigmund, Joey De Francesco, Irio de Paula, Flavio Boltro, Fabrizio Bosso, Antonio Zambrini, Eugenio Finardi and others.
In 2014 he moved to Berlin, where he actually lives, and was right away involved in many international musical projects he is now one of the most busy bassists in the Berlin jazz scene.