Claudio Fasoli

Claudio Fasoli

Claudio Fasoli (* 29. November 1939 in Venice ) is an Italian jazz - saxophonist (tenor and soprano saxophone) and composer of modern jazz .

Live and act

Fasoli became known in the Italian jazz scene at the latest in the 1970s through his membership in the Perigeo Quartet , in which Franco D'Andrea and Giovanni Tommaso also played. After the group disbanded in 1978, he began to work with his own formations, mostly trios or quartets; In 1979 the album Hinterland with Enrico Pieranunzi , Bruno Tommaso , Roberto Gatto and Giancarlo Schiaffini as well as the album Jazz Duo , which he recorded with Franco D'Andrea , was released on the Edipan label .

In 1983 he recorded the album Lido for the Soul Note label ; it seemed Kenny Drew , Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Barry Altschul with. In 1986 he had a quartet that he led with Kenny Wheeler ( Welcome ); in his groups played u. a. Stefano Battaglia , Henri Texier , Lee Konitz , Jean-François Jenny-Clark , Aldo Romano , Manfred Schoof , Dave Holland , Palle Danielsson , Tony Oxley , Bill Elgart or Mick Goodrick . In 2014 he released the album London Tube (Abeat Records).

Fasoli was also a member of the “Grande Orchestra Nazionale”, the Lydian Sound Orchestra and the European Music Orchestra , which he directed during recordings and performances. He also plays in the Manfred Schoof International Band and in the early 1990s in Giorgio Gaslini's big band ( Masks ).

Fasoli has also been teaching tenor and soprano saxophone and master classes for improvisation at the Siena International Jazz Clinics since 1978 . He founded the saxophone courses at the Civic School of Jazz in Milan and taught jazz at several Italian conservatories and was artistic director of the Padua Jazz Festival in 2003 . His students include u. a. Giorgio Visibelli .

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002.

Web links

• Website by Claudio Fasoli