Enrico Granafei

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Enrico Granafei (born April 22, 1952 in Lauria ) is an Italian jazz musician ( guitar , harmonica ). With the Vern Smith's Handsfree Harmonica he plays a chromatic harmonica , the tone of which is switched not with a slide, but with a mouthpiece that can be easily moved up and down, which enables him to accompany himself on the guitar.

Live and act

Granafei studied classical guitar at the Conservatory of L'Aquila until 1976 and only much later jazz at the Manhattan School of Music , where he was a student of Toots Thielemans and graduated in 1992. From 1978 until the early 1980s he lived as a music teacher and classical guitarist in Germany, then again in Italy, where he turned to jazz. He appeared on television as a member of Pippo Caruso's orchestra . He then lived in New York, where he performed in Blue Note , Birdland , Bottom Line and other jazz clubs. Since 1999 he has also been running the Trumpets Jazz Club in Montclair (New Jersey) . He has also performed at the Pori Jazz Festival and the Euromeet Jazz Festival. He played with musicians like Fred Hersch , Claudio Roditi , John Lee and Bucky Pizzarelli . According to Tom Lord , between 1987 and 2012 he was involved in eleven recordings in the field of jazz. He can be heard on albums with Marc Johnson , Eliot Zigmund , Eddie Gomez , Ted Curson , John Dukich ( Down in Brazil ) and Nnenna Freelon ( Tales of Wonder ).

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  1. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography
  2. ↑ meeting
  3. ↑ (meeting, Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Granafei, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian jazz musician (guitar, harmonica)
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauria