DMAurbanjazzfunk
Bandorkestra.55
Marco Castelli Small & Large Ensemble
Marco Castelli Mambo & Swing Band
Music Dance Architecture
MARCO CASTELLI QUARTET
Marco Castelli – saxErmanno Signorelli – guitar
Giovanni Maier – double bass
Mauro Beggio – drums
....this CD, by the saxophonist Marco Castelli, exalts the potentiallity of the melody through the voice of the instrument. The tracks in the CD represent steps of the same path.
It is fully coherent, therefore the interpretation of the themes is carried out with a particular care. In them the melodically line is well emphatized.....
by Marco Camerini
The Marco Castelli Quartet, founded in 1992, finds its natural collocation between the best European jazz tradition and the Mediterranean music influence.
The repertoire includes original tunes of Marco Castelli but also compositions by Dulce Pontes, Chico Buarque, Edu Lobo, Steve Kuhn, Alexander Scriabin, Cesaria Evora, Astor Piazzolla.
Since 2005 the quartet has a new rhythmic section with Ermanno Signorelli (guitar), Giovanni Maier (bass) and Mauro Beggio (drums): musicians ranking in the first range of the “made in Italy” jazz. With great talent and cohesion they remarkably contribute to the fresh and original sound of the quartet.
Discography:
Passat Splasc(h) Records 1993
Anelli Srazz Records 1997
Set Back MAP 2003
DMAURBANJAZZFUNK
Marco Castelli sax & eletronics
Alfonso Santimone keyboards & electronics
Edu Hebling bass
Mauro Beggio drums
The group ,fouded from Marco Castelli in 1995, is progressively imposed in prestigious festivals as Montreal Jazz Festival (Canada), St. Sebastian Jazz Festival (Spain), Cervantino International Music Festival (Mexico), Ocho Rios Jazz Festival (Jamaica), to the Curaçao Jazz Festival (Dutch Antilles), Jazzkaar Tallin (Estonia), Cervantes en todas partes and Merida Music Festival (Mexico), Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival and Atlantic Jazz Festival Halifax (Canada), Corinthos Jazz Festival (Greece), Gostenhofer Jazztages Norimberga (Germany), to the Half Notes Athens (Greece), Kaunas Jazz Festival (Lithuania) and also in Venezuela, Argentina, Perù, Uruguay, Switzerland, Slovenia and Croazia.
From the beginning of 2003, a completely renewed formation has produced new sonorities, a particularly contaminated sound and open to new experiences compositive, able for instance to welcome poetic and literary recognitions .
The disks of the dmaurbanjzzfunk ”Urban Jazz Funk” and “Up To The Beat!” are easily available in the specialized shops.
The new CD Urban Vox will be released by Blue Serge in 2005.
For other information on the history of the group and for the downloads visited the official site: www.dmaurbanjazzfunk.com
Bandorkestra.55
conducted by Marco Castelli
Tommaso Bisjak-flt
Alessandro Ceschia-sax
Sergio Tonello-sax
Piero Pieri-sax
Stefano Giust-sax
Giovanni Cigui-sax
Cristina Gerin-sax
Barbara Toso-sax
Donato Riccesi-sax
Michele Milanese-sax
Giuseppe Orselli-trombone
Emanuele Laterza-guitar
Giovanni Vianelli-piano
Stefano Lesini -bass
Marco Vattovani-drums
Massimo Leonzini-percussion
The basic assumption driving the BandOrkestra.55 project is to make a permanent music laboratory, with changeable members and sound, and a dynamic work in progress .
The BandOrkestra.55 is not an usual Jazz Big Band, but a gathering of musicians playing a repertoire that moves freely between latin, swing, boogie, ska and ethnic music. The Band plays both original compositions and standards.
The BandOrkestra.55 is a kind of modern Band, offering varied, energizing, entertaining performances.
The bandleader and conductor, the saxophonist Marco Castelli, drives the orchestra between arranged music and "controlled collective improvisations".
The BandaOrkestra.55 has been created in 2002 and resides in the "Casa della Musica" in Trieste - Italy.
New CD "Bandalarga” released in 2005 by the label Extra Urbania in collaboration with Blue Serge.
Marco Castelli
Small & Large Ensemble
Marco Castelli alternates since many years jazz concerts and recordings with an activity of composer and performer of music for theatre, ballet, video, sound environment and multimedia performances.
The Marco Castelli Small & Large Ensemble is the group used for such performances. It can range from solo sax and live electronics to trio with piano and drums, up to a 20 saxophones orchestra. It performs original music, always composed for specific occasions or on commission.
The Ensemble often jointly performs with the ballet company "Il Posto" led by Wanda Moretti, choreographer (www.ilposto.org ). Their most recent joint project is "Proteus - architectures in movement".
The project is dedicated to Proteus and originates from the idea of transformation. Consequently, space and choreographic structure as well as music and acoustical events blend with the performance site.
Among other projects in this area, Marco Castelli has collaborated with Alda Merini, poet, Paolo Puppa, playwright, Alessandro Baricco, Vitaliano Trevisan, writers. He has composed music for the videos "Madre Marghera" and "Venezia Genius Loci" and has co-operated to the live performance "The places of memory" of the Centro Documentazione Storica di Meolo (Venezia).
Marco Castelli has performed at the opening of the Biennale Architettura di Venezia, 2002, at the vernissage of the Lift Gallery in the House of Music of Trieste as well as in many other similar occasions.
MARCO CASTELLI
Mambo & Swing Band
Audio
downloads:
Tea
for Two
Over
The Rainbow
Marco
Castelli sax
Paolo Vianello piano
Edu Hebling double-bass
Mauro Beggio drums
Marco Castelli skillfully leads a quartet of hot musicians.
Lovers of Swing, Cha-cha and Mambo, virtuosos with a
penchant for entertainment and dance, they bring back the atmosphere and
the excitement of the great parties of the 20s.
Their repertoire is ranging from Swing to Boogie and Boogaloo, from Ska, Reggae and Afro, to Latin orchestra sound.
The group enlivens parties at Cipriani's "Harry's Bar" and elsewhere
since many years, with a driving sound, featuring
music by Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Henry Mancini,
Perez Prado, Louis Prima and others.
PROTEO TRANSFORMACTION
Music Dance Architecture
Il Posto + Marco Castelli Small & Large Ensemble
concept and choreography by Wanda Moretti
music for saxophone and live electronics by Marco Castelli
It is a vertical dance performance, a concert, a unique event that is enhancing the potential of the surrounding Space. The live music of Marco Castelli accompanies the performance with saxophone and live electronics. It is a project of integration of Dance, Music and Architecture.
The Project is dedicated to Proteo and was born on the idea of transformation. The Choreographic and Spatial Structure as well as the live music are becoming one with the place of the Performance.The Space becomes the only possible site for the representation.
Like the mythical Figure of Proteo it is evanescent because perpetually mutating. Only the one that do not fear his numerous mutations can catch is originally shape and receive his prophecy.
Info: www.ilposto.org