MIKE
MELILLO TRIO A fourteen years collaboration |
 A collection of original compositions and musical pieces devoted to the great Monk and Powell, performed by a wonderful pianist and composer that has collaborated with Phil Wood for more than eight years. The trio have made four CDs, one of them with Chet Baker.
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GIAMPAOLO ASCOLESE & LABORATORIO TEATRO ORVIETO “BUT BEAUTIFUL” |
A multimedial project about jazz world, excerpted from the book of Geoff Dyer “But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz”. The project is the description of the lives of some of the key musician in the history of jazz, as Chet Baker, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Ben Webster, portrayed by Dyer in his book and performed in a very personal way by the interpretation of actor Alberto Rossatti, the music of Giampaolo Ascolese’s Trio and the visual project of Massimo Achilli of the Laboratorio Teatro Orvieto. The show involves the voice-over of the actor Rossatti offering passages of the book, the live music evocating the beautiful and famous pieces considered landmarks of jazz history and the visual material showing both the weakness of musicians in their private life both the strength of their music. FEATURING: |
QUARTET
OF GIORGIO ZAGNONI |
 This
is a classical group, that plays the music of Claude Bolling, Astor Piazzolla,
Lennon, Mc Cartney and others great composer.Giorgio Zagnoni is one of the best flutist in the world; the group performered in Brasil, England, Luxembourg, Canada, Argentina, North America (in Chicago and in New York at the Carnagie Hall). The group has 2 CD, one recorded live in Luxembourg. Giorgio Zagnoni, flute; Stefano Malferrari, piano; Giampaolo Ascolese, drums; Elio Tatti, acoustic bass. |
QUARTET
OF RINO VERNIZZI |
 This
is alse a classical-contemporary group, where the are many influences
of ethnic music from Brasil, Italy and North Africa.Half of the repertory is also dedicated to the music of J.S.Bach and Niccolò Paganini. The group has recorded 3 albums. Rino Vernizzi, bassoon; Corrado Giuffredi, clarinet; Giampaolo Ascolese, drums. |
| GIAMPAOLO ASCOLESE & LABORATORIO TEATRO ORVIETO “LET IT BE…ATLES” |
It is a multimedial project of music, images and words put on view to celebrate the music of the Beatles, and the events occurred during the Sixties in the world. The project drives us back to the decade 1960-1970 from an historical, cultural and social view, depicting those years with a visual material projected and displayed on a large screen by the Laboratorio Teatro Orvieto, fundamental and long-lasting partner of Giampaolo Ascolese, and by Isoritmo Group. Optionally, the project can be made in a solo performance by Ascolese. The whole thing is devoted to the Beatles! Just to mention some of the main events highlighted in the performance: Vietnam war, first heart transplant, first protests of 1968, landing on the moon. FEATURING: GIAMPAOLO ASCOLESE SOLO PERFORMANCE |
| Multimedial project in collaboration with the Laboratorio Teatro Orvieto |
Giampaolo Ascolese, with his group Isoritmo, devotes this concert to The Beatles, by a multimedial project that describes, through a sequence of images synchronized with music, text and lyrics of many songs of the “Fab Four”.
It is an original and unique project lying between “Couleur Musique” and “Let it Be….atles”. As a matter of fact, the words of the songs of the great Beatles have never before become “drawings” and part of a film. The DVD/CD “Let it Be…..atles” is coming soon, including the description of the whole live concert and a menu giving all the audio-visual sequence of the paintings. GROUP ISORITMO: |
| GIAMPAOLO ASCOLESE “COULEUR MUSIQUE ”Music and paintings multimedial project |
The project by Giampaolo Ascolese is an imaginary day spent in an imaginary art gallery that holds some of the painting masterpieces as testimonies of the last millennium, precisely from 1200 to 2000. The project may be performed optionally by the Isoritmo Group - as for the previous project - as well as by Giampaolo Ascolese in a solo performance. Giampaolo Ascolese, in the solo performance, plays the music pieces on prerecorded basic sounds, describing with his music the mood that each Artist bestowed on his own Artwork and following the musical culture of the age of the paintings. Depending on the musical option, the paintings are chosen among the artworks of Giotto (1300), Leonardo Da Vinci, Fernando Botero, Rembrandt (1600), Tolouse Lautrec (1800), ten painters belonging to the Neapolitan School of XIX Century, Henri Rousseau, Wassily Kandinskij, Caravaggio, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Thomas Hart Benton (and other artists from the American XX Century), George Braque, Marie Reine Levrat, Giuseppe Baccaro. The DVD of the project “Couleur Musique” has been published by “Lake Records”. FEATURING: GIAMPAOLO ASCOLESE SOLO PERFORMANCE |
| LARRY FRANCO project "FAHRENHEIT" |
 FEATURING:LARRY FRANCO piano, voice NINO LA CIRIGNOLA tromba PINO PICHIERRI sax ILARIO DE MARINIS double-bass GIAMPAOLO ASCOLESE drums |