Pino Minafra

Pino Minafra ( born July 21, 1951 in Ruvo di Puglia ) is an Italian jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and composer. He belongs " to the top class European trumpeter " and " stands out for its creative play and incredible circular breathing technically assisted wide sound lines ".

Life and work

Pino Minafra studied with Nino Rota at the Conservatory in Bari. He was in the 1980s known in the Italian jazz scene through his work in bands like Nexus ( Night Riding, 1985); furthermore he played with Mario Schiano and Gianluigi Trovesi. During his early, in the 1980s for the label Splasc ( h) recorded albums were moving in a relatively conventional Neobop idiom to Minafra opened in the 1990s towards a free improvisation and the Italian avant-garde jazz.

Among his most notable works include the 1995 recorded plant Sudori where Giorgio Occhipinti, Carlo Actis Dato, Lauro Rossi, Daniele Patrumi and Vincenze Mazzone participated. In 2000, the album Canto Libero originated with its suburbs Blues Quartet.

In parallel, Minafra working with his Sud Ensemble, with whom he on Enja album Terronia grossed out and the Dato, Rossi and Mazzone still belong to the saxophonist Sandro Satta, pianist Livio Minafra and bassist Giovanni Maier. With this band he was several times in Central Europe on tour. In the orchestra Minafra combines the southern Banda music with jazz elements of blues, free jazz, Dixieland and Hard Bop. "It's music full of sharp contrasts that constantly transforms itself into something else. It is a southern sound that it takes on the real as well as on an imaginary south reference, " says Pino Minafra himself, who also still enumerates opera arias, pop and rock music as components of his wild mix. In his appearances Minafra plays trumpet partly through a megaphone, moreover, the didgeridoo and singing scat.

Minafra, who also plays in the Banda his hometown at events such as the processions of Holy Week, held there a festival of international contemporary jazz, which - because no admission is charged - takes place with the participation of the entire city. With Willem Breuker and Michel Godard, he led his compositions with the Banda ( approximately at the Donaueschingen Music Festival ). In 1990, he was the impetus for the founding of the Italian Unstable Orchestra, but is run as a collective band project. In addition Minafra worked with Giorgio Gaslini in its big band production Masks 1990/91 and in plate projects with Han Bennink and Ernst Reijseger ( Noci. .. Stranis Fritti, 1990 to Leo ) and Michel Godard ( Castel Del Monte, 1998).

Minafra has worked as a trumpet teacher at the Conservatory in Bari. He is with harpsichordist Margherita Porfido (* 1956) married. With his son, pianist Livio Minafra (* 1982 ) he founded in 2007 the MinAfric Orchestra.

Disco Graphical Notes

Albums as a leader

More albums

  • Mario Schiano, Peter Kowald, Gianluigi Trovesi, Paul Lovens, Pino Minafra, Radu Malfatti: Benefit Concert to Repurchase the Pendulum for Mr. Foucault (1989, Splasc (h))
  • Ernst Reijseger, Han Bennink, Pino Minafra: Noci ... Stranis Frutti ( Leo Records, 1991)
  • Gianluigi Trovesi Octet: From G to G ( Soul Note, 1992)
  • The Giuseppe Guarrella Project: Live! Ibleo Festival del Jazz ( CMC, 1994)
  • Vincenzo Lanzo: Rondo Ella Project ( Leo Records, 1995)
  • La Banda Banda Città Ruvo Di Puglia - Traditional Italian Banda & Jazz ( Enja Records, 1998. )
  • Michel Godard: Castel del Monte ( Enja Records, 2000)

Evidence

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 6th Edition, London, Penguin, 2002 ISBN 0-14-017949-6
  • Bielefeld Catalog Jazz, 2001
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