Gianluigi Trovesi
Gianluigi Trovesi (* 1944 in Nembro, Bergamo Province ) is an Italian jazz musician (saxophone and clarinet).
Life and work
Gianluigi Trovesi is one of the well-known Italian jazz musicians of our time. Trovesi stands with his music for a folk- tinted, European jazz, the classical heritage also relates how the varied European folk music.
Trovesi was a member of a church choir and a choir, who used the tradition of Italian folk song ( Canti di Montagna: Mountain Songs) already in his childhood and youth. He soon played clarinet and performed with a trio at dance events.
After school he studied at the Music Conservatory Bergamo composition, counterpoint and clarinet (Completion 1966). Following the study Trovesi participated in performances of classical music and worked in dance and jazz bands. At times, he taught music. From 1977 he was Member of the Giogio Gaslini Quintet, founded in parallel its own jazz trio, folk music and jazz combined with each other. In 1978 he won in the categories saxophone and clarinet the first prize of the Italian National Music Competition and was a member of the Radio Big Band in Milan.
In the period following the first recording session came about, and he took first toured in Germany, for example, with Manfred Schoof, Peter Kowald and Gunter " Baby" Sommer. Trovesi was in the 1970s, influenced by the current trends of free jazz. An invitation to " Clarinet Summit " by Joachim Ernst Berendt makes him known far beyond Italy. This period Trovesis return to his classical education and the rich treasure of Italian art and folk music, which he as well as musical movements of the 20th century integrated into his work as a jazz musician. Trovesi continued to play in the Milan Radio Big Band, but also received numerous invitations to concerts and festival appearances in Europe, taught temporarily at the Musikhochschule in Stockholm and worked in the European Radio Big Band with. In the early 1980s he wins multiple jazz competitions and awards for his recordings. He performs with musicians of the European jazz scene as Albert Mangelsdorff, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava, Louis Sclavis and Keith Tippett. In 1991 he became a member of "Italian Unstable Orchestra".
1993 Milan Radio Big Band is dissolved and Gianluigi Trovesi completely focused on his own composition and musicians practice. Finally, he founded a private octet with his first recording (CD "From G to G", 1992), the Italian Jazz Award winning (Best CD of the year ). In 1993 the band was awarded as the best Italian jazz ensemble. In the prestigious American jazz magazine Down Beat the CD gets five stars and latest thanks to this broad resonance Trovesi wins international recognition.
The " Gianluigi octet " is known for its tremendous virtuosity, improvisation and the skillful fusion of jazz, folk and classical music of the past as the present.
Discography (selection)
Awards (selection)
Filmography
- Il cortile della musica ( The Music Court ) (2010)