Joe Diorio
Joe Diorio ( born August 6, 1936 in Waterbury, Connecticut as Joseph Louis Diorio ) is an American jazz guitarist and music educator.
Life and work
Joe Diorio came under the influence of his uncle for guitar and attended from 1949 to 1954 the Berdice School of Music. The early / mid 1960s, he worked in Chicago with Eddie Harris, Sonny Stitt (1963 /64), Ira Sullivan, Bennie Green and Stan Getz, and later with Anita O'Day ( Mello'Day, 1978), Monty Budwig, Pete and Conte Candoli, Pat Metheny, Horace Silver, John Pisano and Freddie Hubbard.
From 1975 he taught at the University of Miami, where he played with local bands, a private trio consisting of Bob Magnusson (bass) and Jim Plank ( drums), and composed music for television documentaries. 1977/78 he worked in the Netherlands, in 1980 in France, 1987-90 in Italy and 1989 in Austria. After his recording debut in 1975 a solo album he recorded two tribute albums for Wes Montgomery and Antonio Carlos Jobim. In the 1990s he played for the label RAM a few albums, Riccardo Del Fra where, Ira Sullivan and Steve LaSpina participated; He also worked on recordings by Robben Ford, Gary Willis and Mick Goodrick (Rare Birds, 1993) with.
Diorio taught at the University of Southern California, was at the Guitar Institute of Technology and has published several textbooks and videos. Diorio was also a guest lecturer at the Jazz & Rock schools Freiburg. His students included, inter alia, Bruce Eisenbeil, Antonio Jasevoli, Thomas Langer and Michael Musillami.
Works
- Jazz Structures for the New Millennium by Joe Diorio. Mel Bay Publishing, 2000.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Double Take (RAM, 1992) Riccardo Del Fra with
- We'll Meet Again (RAM 1992) solo
- More than Friends (RAM, 1995) with Steve LaSpina
- Stateside ( Diorio Jazz, 2000) with Bob Magnusson and Jim Plank
Swell
- Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
- Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-14-102327-9