Spaghetti Jazz – Live in Buenos Aires, the new CD of Buenos Aires-based trio wi

“Spaghetti Jazz – Live in Buenos Aires”,  the new CD of Buenos Aires-based trio with Rodrigo Dominguez and Hernan Mandelman, is coming out. After ten years of  playing together a “live” with some of my repertoire’s  favourite and most typical tunes with the trio that certainly is one of the projects that best represent Enzo Rocco. 

We hope you want to take into account the CD  despite, due to the digital distribution’s  feature  (very limited  phisical production of the CD sold just online by cdbaby.com) you can directly download  the  music and the artwork through the link below.

In the meanwhile, if you want a little sample on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZs0EtlPq0o

Many thanks,

Enzo Rocco

roccomus@tin.it

http://www.enzorocco.com/spaghetti/spaghettijazz.zip

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enzo rocco

Spaghetti Jazz – Live in Buenos Aires

recorded live at Notorious – Buenos Aires/June 12, 2009

rodrigo dominguez…...tenor and soprano sax/electronic toys

enzo rocco……guitar (and whistles and kazoos and more toys)

hernan mandelman…...drums

Some “historical” pieces from Rocco’s (zany) repertory celebrating ten years of his  Buenos Aires-based trio.

“Enzo Rocco continues his untiring comparison all over the world with that musicians like him interested in the research of new languages mixing, in the name of the jazz, a lot of different influences…always seasoned with that theatrical, ironic, humoristic approach which is the natural way Rocco runs his idea of jazz.”

 “Jazz and irony, world music and amusement, dance and improvisation: the music of the "wacky Italian" Enzo Rocco is a mix of contemporary jazz, free improvisation and folk music from all around the world always dressed with that generous amount of sense of theatre that always makes so tasty his shows”.

Available (digital download and phisical cd) at www.cdbaby.com  and on iTunes, Amazon,  Rhapsody, eMusic, Napster and many more on-line retailers as well.

contacts: Enzo Rocco roccomus@tin.it

HERNAN MANDELMAN

Drummer and composer Hernán Mandelman was born in Buenos Aires in 1972. Since the ‘90s, he has played in different local band. Among them, the Summer Quartet led by Guillermo Bazzola and the quintet led by Juan Cruz de Urquiza, completed by Ernesto Jodos, Hernán Merlo and Rodrigo Domínguez (three among the most influentials Argentinian musicians). Other collaborations with Carlos Lastra, Ricardo Cavalli, Enrique Norris, Luis Nacht and Pepi Taveira.

In 2000, he moved to Brazil, where he had the opportunity to come in contact with musicians from the international scene. He has performed with Brazilian guitarist Chico Pinheiro, French saxophonist Olivier Temine, German guitarist Tolster de Winkell and Italian musician Enzo Rocco.

Back in Buenos Aires, he recorded the cd “Amistad” (BlueArt) in 2006, together with Natalio Sued, Rodrigo Domínguez and French Franck Oberson.

He currently leads his own quintet made up of Paula Shocron (piano), Ezequiel Dutil (double bass), Natalio Sued (sax) and Rodrigo Domínguez (clarinet), with which he recorded “Detrás de esa puerta” (Sofa), his first album as a leader (officially presented at the 2011 edition of the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival) featuring his own original compositions in an attempt to find the perfect balance between simple and complex, tradition and vanguard, rhythmic force and lyricism.

RODRIGO DOMINGUEZ

Rodrigo Dominguez is the most sought after saxophonist in the vibrant Buenos Aires jazz scene. He is an inspired, critically acclaimed improviser and composer. This dynamic artist expertly plays a range of woodwind instruments with powerful eloquence. Esteemed by his peers and critics alike, one can detect his commanding presence on most contemporary Argentine jazz recordings.

Born in 1970, he played with almost all of the greatest musicians in Argentina during and after his studies with Jerry Bergonzi, Tony Malaby and Chris Cheek (as well as attended to private lessons, master-classes and jam sessions with  Ralph Lalama, Chris Potter, Perico Sambeat, Hermeto Pascoal, Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter).

He recorded and toured extensively throughout the Americas and Europe on various projects involving musicians worldwide.

n 1999, Dominguez, along with trumpet player Juan Cruz Urquiza and drummer Oscar Giunta, founded QUINTETO URBANO, a leading group in the vanguard of “Jazz Argentino” combining jazz instrumentation and language with elements of Argentina’s diverse musical tradition. this group was a pioneer of the so-called new Argentinean jazz movement.

Domínguez is a valued teacher at Berklee International Network, the principal jazz school in Buenos Aires, which molds musicians from throughout South America. Llately he´s been developing a system for ensemble free improvisation, doing workshops in Europe, South America and Mexico.

He runs several projects: an organ trio, a quartet devoted to the music of the great Argentinean pop singer and composer Luis Alberto Spinetta, a quartet that plays original music, a trio featuring the great American bass player Mark Helias.

He also participates as a sideman in many projects, like Barry Altschul´s Argentinean group, Fernando Tarres´quintet and sextet, Trespass, (a group that mixes free improvisation, electronic processing and visuals), bassist and composer Mariano Otero´s different groups, The TangoCrash Project, Santiago Vazquez y La Grande (a large group of free improvisation, groove oriented, directed by a system of signals), etc.

He´s the Argentinean musician that has recorded more jazz cd´s in the last 10 years or so. He won several prizes and awards, and has many good press quotes, but he´s too shy to list them here.

ENZO ROCCO

Guitarist, improviser, composer, conductor. Since the early 90’ Rocco has taken part in various groups and has accompanied many Italian jazzmen always attendeding also contemporary music, music for theatre and ballet, folk music, happenings and improvisations with poets and with painters.

With his groups he has recorded a dozen of CDs very well reviewed by the press all over the world and he has played everywhere in Europe and often in Japan, Indonesia, Latin America, Northern Africa.

Nowadays, after closing the eight-years experience of the Tubatrio - his own group with Giancarlo Schiaffini (trombone/tuba/electronics) and Ettore Fioravanti (drums) -, he leads his own new, amusing E.R. Quartet (with Simone Mauri on bass clarinet) as well as he continues to play all around the world in the humoristic duet born in 1997 with Carlo Actis Dato. The two musicians have also created a quartet with tuba and drums presented the first time in 2009 at the Tunisian “Jazz à Carthage” festival.

Since Janyuary 2004 Rocco has run a duo with the Scottish drummer Tom Bancroft (winner of the musicians of the year BBC3 Award 2006). The duo was born thanks to the suggestion of Roger Spence, Director of the Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and regularly takes part in many important jazz festivals in UK (London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cheltenham, etc.).

Regularly active in Latin America since 2000, in Argentina Rocco created the “Spaghetti Jazz Trio” with Rodrigo Dominguez on saxophones and Hernan Mandelman on drums (cd “Live in Buenos Aires”, 2012) and runs a duo with Pablo Ledesma (“Seis episodios en busca de autor”, 2010, containig two concerts at the La Plata Conservatory and University)
He was also responsible of the Italian Song Project, born by a commission of the Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires and dedicated to the arrangement of the most famous Italian songs.

Since 1998 Rocco has been a regular partner of some important English improvisers, above all pianist Veryan Weston (cd “London Gigs”, 2000 ), and the incomparable Lol Coxhill ("Fine Tuning", 2009).

In France in 2006 he led a trio with Frédéric Monino (bass) and Bruno Tocanne (drums) purchased by the “Cri du Port” of Marseille, whilst in 2011 he was invited to take part in some concerts in duo with Barre Phillips (Maison des saveurs, Agde). 

He collaborated in Italy with Peter Kowald, in Belgium with André Goudbeek, and partecipated to the Italian conductions of Butch Morris. Definitely he regularly meets a lot of musicians around the world. He often visits Japan and collaborates with the Italian Cultural Institutes around the world.

Since 1997 he has been more and more involved – concerts, workshops, meetings – in his personal concept of collective conducted improvisation called “comprovisation”, nowadays open to dancers and videoartits too.

Eventually he was for seven years the artistic director of the Bottesini Bassofestival, dedicated – in the name of the double-bass virtuoso in his home town Crema – to every kind of “low-pitched” instrument in every kind of music.