Sebi Tramontana
Sebastiano " Sebi " Tramontana ( born December 12, 1960 in Rosolini, Sicily ) is an Italian avant-garde trombonist of jazz and improvised music.
Life and work
Sebi Tramontana began as a child playing the guitar and joined in the late 1970s to the soprano saxophone. In 1982, the trombone was his main instrument; During this time he worked with Bruno Tommaso at a radio production. This he learned Giancarlo Schiaffini know who persuaded him to move to Rome and study in L' Aquila on A. Casella Conservatorio. In Rome he collaborated with Joseph Martin, Eugenio Colombo and Mario Schiano; in 1986 he was a member of the New Talents Orchestra, which occurred on the Rocella Jonica Festival. In 1987 he founded a trio with Daniel Studer and Roberto Altamura, with whom he appeared on the Controindicazioni Festival in Rome; He also worked at this time with Paul Rutherford, Barry Guy, Gérard Siracusa, Eugenio Colombo, Co Streiff and Martin Mayes. 1988 invited him Mario Schiano to one to take for the record label Red; It then emerged recordings by Vladimir Tarasov and Vladimir Tschekassin. In 1990 he continued his studies at the Conservatorio A. Casella and became a member of the Italian Unstable Orchestra.
In 1992 he was in Rome his first solo performances, followed by guest appearances in Zurich, Mulhouse, Cologne and Göttingen. In 1994, he worked at Georg Gräwe Project Two Nights Of Random Acoustics in Cologne, also played in the quintet and toured with him through Europe. 1998 emerged duet recordings with Gräwe for the Italian Splasc ( h) label; In July 2003, he worked again with Gräwe in the new quintet together with Tobias Delius, Kent Kessler and Michael Vatcher.
In 1996 Tramontana performed at the Festival of Roccella Jonica with Barre Phillips, Michel Doneda and two dancers; then on the Victoriaville Festival with Mario Schiano, Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lovens. In jazz club Empty Bottle in Chicago, he appeared at the side of Hamid Drake, Kent Kessler, Ken Vandermark and Mars Williams. In 1997 he played in the series Art Of Dialogue in Munich with Joëlle Léandre.
In 1999 he was given the opportunity for a six-week stay in the United States by the city of Munich; During this time he visited Chicago, stepped Festival at the Empty Bottle on and made recordings with Jim Baker, Fred Lonberg -Holm, Michael Zerang, Lou Mallozzi, Jeb Bishop, Ken Vandermark and Kent Kessler; In addition, he joined up in San Francisco and New York. From 1999 to 2002 he was artistic director of the Munich Festival Come Sunday; During this time he founded the formation XAXA with Phil Wachsmann, Mats Gustafsson and Paul Lovens.
In 2001 Tramontana worked in Chicago with the Night People project ( as a tribute to Dickie Wells ), with a string quartet with clarinetist Guillermo Gregorio, and in a duo with Jeb Bishop. He also played in a duo with Paul Lovens ( Buster Keaton The General project), performed in Munich, Ljubljana, Graz, Cologne, Regensburg, Rome, Maribor, Kassel and Göttingen. 2002/ 03 he was a member of Mats Gustafsson Nu ensemble.
In 2003, he stepped on the banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris and Ghent with Joëlle Leandre European Quartet with Carlos Zingaro, Paul Lovens and as a guest on Irène Schweizer. With Léandre he played in a duo on the mountain Ulrich Kaleidophon Festival and performed with a trombone trio in Ljubljana and Maribor where Vinko Globokar and Hannes Bauer were involved.
Since 1999, Sebi Tramontana often toured through Germany and Austria, and worked with the actor and television writer Udo Wachtveitl. Since 2001 he plays as a musician and actor with the Dance Company En Knap of Iztok Kovac from Ljubljana. He also appeared in the 2004 film Under my skin the director Saso Podgorsek on. In 2004, he worked in Munich with the Electronic 48 North group.
In November 2004, he exhibited his paintings in Chicago in an exhibition of works by artists under the title Stop, Look & Listen with works by Pee Wee Russell, Hal Rammelsberg, Han Bennink, Peter Brötzmann and others.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Italy Unstable Orchestra: Skies of Europe (ECM, 1994)
- Italy Unstable Orchestra: Litania Sibilante ( Enja, 1996)
- Joelle Léande: E'Vero ( Leo Records, 1997)
- Georg Graewe: Schz ( Splasc ( h) records, 1998)
- Mario Schiano: Social Security ( Victo, 1996)