Riccardo Zegna

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

Life

Riccardo Zegna comes from a family of musicians. As a child he toured with his father Ilario's small orchestra, playing the congas . He started playing drums at the age of five, piano at the age of 13, and later also clavicembalo . He made his piano diploma in 1970 at the Paganini Conservatory in Genoa. After an initial classical career, he switched to jazz in 1976 .

As a result, he worked with well-known Italian and American jazz musicians. So he played in the seventies and eighties a. a. 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 appeared in New York in 1999 at the Savoy Club and at Duke University in Durham , North Carolina. He has played at numerous important festivals and has recorded many of his own compositions. His first solo album Andalusa (1996) has received great praise from musicians and critics alike. In 1999 he put together his own group with clarinetist Gabriele Mirabassi , with whom he recorded his own compositions. He experimented with a mixture of chamber music and jazz. The result of the collaboration were the two albums "Piccolo Valzer" and "Barcarola" for the Egea label. In 2001 he played in a live broadcast for ORF in Vienna in a duo with the German saxophonist Klaus Gesing .

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

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  1. ↑ cf. Interview in Italian with Zegna Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.centrostoricogenova.com
  2. ↑ cf. http://www.allmusic.com/album/andalusa-mw0000414528
  3. ↑ cf. Criticism in Italian language http://www.jazzitalia.net/recensioni/barcarola.asp
personal data
SURNAME Zegna, Riccardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin