Joe Diorio

Joe Diorio (* 6. August 1936 in Waterbury , Connecticut as Joseph Louis Diorio ) is an American jazz - guitarist and music teacher.

Live and act

Joe Diorio came to the guitar under the influence of his uncle and attended the Berdice School of Music from 1949 to 1954. In the early / mid-1960s he worked in Chicago with Eddie Harris ( Exodus to Jazz ), Sonny Stitt (1963/64), Ira Sullivan , Bennie Green and Stan Getz , later also 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, his own trio consisting of Bob Magnusson (bass) and Jim Plank (drums), and composed music for television documentaries. In 1977/78 he worked in the Netherlands, 1980 in France, 1987–90 in Italy and 1989 in Austria. After his record debut in 1975 - a solo album - he recorded two tribute albums for Wes Montgomery and Antônio Carlos Jobim . In the 1990s he played a few albums for the RAM label, in which Riccardo Del Fra , Ira Sullivan and Steve LaSpina participated; he also worked on recordings of Robben Ford , Gary Willis and Mick Goodrick ( Rare Birds , 1993) with.

Diorio has taught at the University of Southern California , worked at the Guitar Institute of Technology , and published several textbooks and videos. Diorio was also a guest lecturer at the Jazz & Rock Schools in Freiburg . His students included u. a. Paul Abler , Bruce Eisenbeil , Antonio Jasevoli , Thomas Langer and Michael Musillami .

Works

• Jazz Structures for the New Millennium by Joe Diorio . Mel Bay Publishing, 2000.

Discographic notes

• Italy (MGI Records; 1989) solo
• Double Take (RAM, 1992) with Riccardo Del Fra
• We'll Meet Again (RAM; 1992) solo
• The Breeze and I (RAM, 1994) with Ira Sullivan
• More than Friends (RAM, 1995) with Steve LaSpina
• Stateside (Diorio Jazz, 2000) with Bob Magnusson and Jim Plank

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• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

Web links

• Biography of Joe Diorio in Allmusic
• Feature about the collaboration with Sonny Stitt in Jazzwax (2010)