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> STUDI
Dopo aver approfondito il pianoforte jazz presso la Gioventù Musicale d'Italia sotto la guida di Marcello Tonolo e Luigi Bonafede ('83 - '86), Memoli ha frequentato i seminari intensivi Siena Jazz per quattro anni, studiando con Franco D'Andrea, Amedeo Tommasi, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu ('87 – '90). Ha inoltre partecipato ai corsi tenuti in Italia dalla Manhattan School of Music di New York (che gli ha assegnato una borsa di studio nel '97) e da Barry Harris, Gary Burton, Lee Konitz ...

> ATTIVITA' CONCERTISTICA / DISCOGRAFICA
Oltre a dirigere il proprio trio, Memoli suona dal '98 nel quartetto del sassofonista newyorkese Steve Grossman. Negli anni ha collaborato con continuità con Carlo Atti, Roberto Rossi, Marco Tamburini, Robert Bonisolo, Pietro Tonolo, Fabrizio Bosso, Sandro Gibellini, Piero Odorici, Fabio Morgera, e altri musicisti di rilievo del panorama jazz internazionale. Dalla fine degli anni '90 inizia a pubblicare alcuni dischi a suo nome (“JAZZ” e “FELIEC”) oltre che come sideman.
Ha compiuto numerosi tour con gli americani John Mosca, Dave Schnitter, Vincent Herring, Lew Tabackin, Jesse Davis, Tom Kirkpatrick, Bob Sands, Kurt Weiss, suonando in club, festival e rassegne in Italia, Francia, Spagna, Austria, Svizzera, Olanda, Grecia, Belgio, Rep. Ceca, Germania, Norvegia e a New York.
Nel 2007 ha fondato il gruppo internazionale Newropean Quartet, con cui ha inciso “AMAPOLA” per la tedesca Birdland Records e, nell'estate 2010, “TIME ON MY HANDS” con la partecipazione di Steve Grossman. Nella primavera 2011, durante un tour italiano, registra “EARLY AUTUMN” con ospite la famosa cantante statunitense Ruth Young, partner di vita e di musica del grande Chet Baker negli anni '70. Il più recente tour, ancora costellato da una nuova registrazione pubblicata nel 2012 dal titolo “ALL MY TOMORROWS”, è come leader di un sestetto con - tra gli altri - Mosca e Weiss.

> ATTIVITA' DIDATTICA
Dalla metà degli anni '90 insegna pianoforte e musica d'insieme jazz, principalmente presso i seguenti istituti musicali: Scuola Thelonious di Vicenza, Accademia Musicale di Schio (VI), Circolo Unisono Fortepiano di Feltre (BL). Tiene seminari sull'improvvisazione jazzistica in Italia, Grecia e Germania.
Ha lavorato come assistente di pianoforte e traduttore per la New School di New York ('98, '99 e 2004), e prestato la propria opera come docente di pianoforte jazz presso il Conservatorio  “E. Dall'Abaco” (Verona) nel triennio 2007/2009. Nel 2011 ha tradotto in italiano il manuale didattico “METAPHORS FOR THE MUSICIAN” di Randy Halberstadt, pubblicato dall'editore musicale Volontè di Milano.

> DISCOGRAFIA:
-1999 Danilo Memoli Trio: “JAZZ” w/ John Mosca & Steve Grossman (AG Recs 2001) 
-2001 Bob Sands Quartet: “LIVE IN MADRID” (Fresh Sounds, Spagna)
-2004 Danilo Memoli Trio: “FELIEC” (AZ Music 2005)
-2007 Gianni Cazzola/Giuseppe Zorzella Quartet: “CHET TIME” (AZ Music 2008) 
-2008 Memoli/Reichert NEWROPEAN 4tet: “AMAPOLA” (Birdland Recs 2009, Germania)
-2010 Memoli / Reichert / Grossman: “TIME ON MY HANDS” (CatSound Records)
-2010 Fabrizio Gaudino, special guest Danilo Memoli: “SAIL AWAY” (CatSound Records)
-2011 Memoli / Reichert / Young: “EARLY AUTUMN” (CatSound Records)
-2012 Memoli Sextet / Mosca / Weiss: “ALL MY TOMORROWS” (CatSound Records)

E-mail: danilo.memoli@teletu.it - newropeanquartet@gmail.com

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Besides his work in the steady rhythm section for the great tenor saxophonist Steve Grossman since ’98 and the leadership of his own trio, italian pianist DANILO MEMOLI has worked in the years with many great musicians on tour in Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Czech Republic, Greece...: among those players are New York soloists John Mosca, Eddie Henderson, Lew Tabackin, Jesse Davis, Vincent Herring, Jim Snidero, Bob Sands, Dave Schnitter, Kurt Weiss and many italian names (Fabio Morgera, Pietro Tonolo, Roberto Rossi, Carlo Atti, Fabrizio Bosso, Piero Odorici...
With the trio format, MEMOLI released two cds: the first recording (1999) – is simply entitled "JAZZ" and features Grossman and Mosca as guest stars on some tunes. It received many good reviews on the specialized magazines in Italy (Musica Jazz, Jazzit, Jazz Magazine, Zoing-Jazz, Jazzitalia). The second trio cd, "FELIEC" (2004, released in 2005) is exclusively in trio, and contains some recent compositions written by Danilo, and a few arrangements of standard tunes like Old Devil Moon, You & The Night & The Music, plus Solitude and Caravan from the Ellington book. It also received very good reviews, and has been broadcasted on many european radios in Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Belgium and France. Apart from other cds as a sideman, he recorded with his recent NEWROPEAN QUARTET, co-lead with saxophonist Ralph Reichert, four cds between 2008 and 2011: “AMAPOLA”, released in Germany, which includes some original compositions from the pianist; “TIME ON MY HANDS” which once again features Steve Grossman as guest artist; “EARLY AUTUMN” with the voice of singer Ruth Young, Chet Baker’s wife for over a decade; “ALL MY TOMORROWS” (2012), a sextet with the American soloists Kurt Weiss and John Mosca. He teaches Jazz Piano and Combo in workshops throughout Europe.

In recent years, my research in the field of composition is drawn towards the development of thematic sequences within the confines of a predetermined framework of parameters. I enjoy using the resulting material to push myself into new territories of improvisation driven by interplay. I was born in Prato on May 6th 1985 and I was lucky enough to grow up in a musical environment. My father is a record collector and thanks to him I had the possibility to listen to and get to know, a lot of different kinds of music from classical to experimental a young age. I taught myself how to play the guitar when I was 9 and subsequently started to study formally in various schools. I realized that in order to bring forward a musical idea, it is simply not enough to just be a very good guitar player. That is the reason why I decided to study harmony theory, composition and arranging. I keep practicing on the guitar and look for a deeper understanding through diverse master classes and seminars.

Gioele Pagliaccia plays the drums most of the time. He also composes on guitar wich he has been playing as long as the drums.

These are some of his projects:

-IL DUO-

The group is made of Gioele Pagliaccia on the drums and Giulio Campagnolo on Hammond B3. They play a mixture of funk, jazz, soul with deep grooves that owe a lot to cities like New Orleans and New York. The two often mix different genres such as jazz, drum&bass, latin rhithms, exotica, rock and more. They often invite special guests on stage, such as Antonio Gallucci, Michele Polga, Rosa Brunello, Glauco Benedetti and many others. They are currently working on a recording  so stay tuned!

Giulio Campagnolo: Hammond B3

Gioele Pagliaccia: drums & percussion


-GLI STELLARI-

A funk-cosmic-jazz-brass band made out of 4 horns and drums. Stellari played countless shows togheter from jazz clubs, to festivals, weddings, country fairs, street parades and other odd places. 

Sergio Gonzo: trumpet

Antonio Gallucci: tenor sax

Luca Moresco: trombone

Glauco Benedetti: tuba

Gioele Pagliaccia: drums & percussion


-AUT TO LUNCH-

A project entirely dedicated to the great Eric Dolphy. We play tunes from his whole brief but prolific career, starting from Outward Bound to his 1964 masterpiece Out To Lunch, untill his last recordings right before he died in Berlin on that same year. The other 3 musicians involved in this projects are some of the best players in Italy today. Beside leading they'r own bands they also play as side musicians with people like Uri Caine, Gianluca Petrella, Marc Ribot, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Vinicio Capossela, Jim Black, Jamalaadeen Tacuma and many others.

Piero Bittolo Bon: alto saxophone, bass 
clarinet, flute

Alfonso Santimone: piano, Fender Rhodes

Danilo Gallo: upright bass

Gioele Pagliaccia: drums, percussion, banjo



-WRONG AND STRONG- 

A trumpet and drums duo inspired by many different genres like free improvisation, african drumming, straight ahead jazz and canadian progressive punk. They play every where from jazz clubs to squats. Their first cd is Piero Bittolo Bon's own Rufo's Records best seller.

Flavio Zanuttini:trumpet

Gioele Pagliaccia:drums & percussion

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Gioele has played and/or recorded with: Danilo Gallo, Alfonso Santimone, Henry Cook, Piero Bittolo Bon, Federico Pierantoni, Joe Lally, Massimo Pupillo, Scott Rosenberg, Will Bernard, Dave Scott Stone, Will Blades, Giacomo Ancillotto, Hal Tsuchida, Alessandro Lanzoni, Paul Santner, Igor Osypov, Claudio Mosconi, Amy Denio, Andrea Pesce, Ettore Martin, Horst Honnenmacher, Gianni Gebbia, Mikaele Pellegrino, Massimo Giangrande, Giulio Campagnolo, Davide Piersanti, Yoko Arai, Daniele Tittarelli, Hui-Chun Li, Gerhard Gschlößl, Johannes Fink, Eyal Lovett, Kenneth Dahl Knudsen, Marco Papa, Federico Eterno, Antonio Gallucci, Cristiano De Fabritiis, Fabio "Reeks" Recchia, Renato Ciunfrini, Pasquale Innarella, Tony Cattano, Fil Lorenz, Daniel Magay, Dj Økapi, Roberto Bordiga, Paolo Bacchetta, Federico Pozzer, Roberto Bellatalla, Manlio Maresca, Marco Quaresimin, Riccardo Marogna, Rosa Brunello, Sergio Gonzo, Glauco Benedetti, Alessandro Fongaro, Michele Polga, Luca Moresco, and many others.

He toured in Italy, France, Germany, U.S.A., Dominican Republic, Slovenia and Japan.

He is a Bosphorus Cymbals and Artbeat Sticks endorser.

He gives drum lessons both privately, at Accademia Musicale in Schio and on skype too. Write an e-mail for prices, etc... gioelepagliaccia80@gmail.com

Thanks for reading this!

Piero Bittolo Bon is an almost forty years old perennial new talent struggling in the italian and international jazz scene. He mainly plays alto saxophone but is also at ease on baritone, bass and alto clarinet and flute. Piero has also had a long-standing affair going on with the electric bass, which he played at the beginning of his musical journey in funk, reggae, and rock bands, before committing himself to wind intruments and improvised music. Passionate and vibrant, his music, densely composed or totally improvised, reverberates with echoes of the best of free jazz, fire music, torrid improvisations, sharp attacks and continuous inventions bar after bar.

Member of the fresh and much regarded italian collective/record label El Gallo Rojo Records, he's currently leading his own sextet "Jümp The Shark", an ironic blend of compositon, freeform and hard groove, with Gerhard Gschloessl on tuba and trombone, Domenico Caliri on guitars, Pasquale Mirra on vibes, Danilo Gallo on bass and Federico Scettri on drums, and co-leads "Rollerball", a rock-oriented jazz quintet with Beppe Scardino on bari sax, Enrico Terragnoli on guitar, Danilo Gallo on bass and Massimiliano Sorrentini on drums, not mentioning the many other bands he's involved in, mainly with his Gallo Rojo fellows and with other major italian musicians. Recently he was called to be part of a new Uri Caine project, "Pulse". His most recent  project, "Original Pigneto Stompers", features giant of electric bass Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Simone Massaron on guitars and Federico Scettri and Massimiliano Sorrentini on double drums. 

He performed an recorded with italian artists such as Danilo Gallo, Zeno de Rossi, Beppe Scardino, Enrico Terragnoli, Stefano Senni, Francesco Bigoni, Massimiliano Sorrentini, Achille Succi,Tiziana Ghiglioni, Tiziano Tononi, Daniele Cavallanti, Francesco Cusa,  Domenico Caliri,  Giovanni Maier, U.T. Gandhi, Simone Massaron, Silvia Bolognesi, and with musicians like Anthony Braxton, Uri Caine, John Tchicai, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Jessica Lurie, Andrew Drury, Neil Leonard, Ernest Dawkins, Vincent Davis, Craig J. Green, Tristan Honsinger, Gerhard Gschloessl, Christian Lillinger, Tobias Delius, Mark Solbor, Marc Lohr, Lisa Mezzacappa, Jason Levis and many others.

In 2011 Piero founded his own netlabel, R'Ufo Records.

He recorded for labels such as El Gallo Rojo Records, Clean Feed Records, Splasch Records, Improvvisatore Involontario, NuBop Records, Materiali Sonori, Psychonavigation Records, Caligola Records.

Piero Bittolo Bon is a FORESTONE REEDS endorser

for info & booking:
ropie@hotmail.com
+39 3478680974
skype: ropiez

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