Riccardo Zegna

Riccardo Zegna (* July 7, 1946 in Turin ) is an Italian pianist and composer of modern jazz.

Life

Riccardo Zegna comes from a musical family. As a child, he toured with the small orchestra of his father Ilario and played by the congas. At age five he began playing drums with 13 piano, and later harpsichord. He made his piano diploma in 1970 at the Paganini Conservatory in Genoa. After an initial classical career, he moved in 1976 to jazz.

Subsequently, he worked with well-known Italian and American jazz musicians. He played in the seventies and eighties, inter alia, with Buddy Tate, Bob Berg, Bob Haggart, Gil Goldstein, Lee Konitz, George Coleman, Pepper Adams and Steve Grossman. At the invitation of tenor saxophonist Paul Jeffrey, he joined in 1999 in New York at the Savoy Club and at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, on. He has played at many major festivals and to have many recordings of his own compositions as well. His first solo album Andalusa (1996 ) has been highly praised by musicians and critics circles. In 1999 he performed with clarinetist Gabriele Mirabassi together your own group with which he recorded his own compositions. He experimented with a mixture of chamber music and jazz. Result of collaboration were the two albums " Piccolo Valzer " and " Barcarola " for the label Egea. In 2001 he played in Vienna in a live broadcast for the ORF in a duo with saxophonist Klaus German Gesing.

Zegna taught long at the jazz summer courses in Siena, and had held a chair for jazz at the Conservatory of Cuneo. In 2011 he released his solo album "Monk -A- Ning ".

Disco Graphical Notes

• Andalusa Solo ( Splas (h ), 1997 )
• Piccolo Valzer with Gabriele Mirabassi and Pietro Tonolo ( Egea, 2000)
• Monk -A- Ning Solo ( Egea, 2011)