Roberta Gambarini

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Roberta Gambarini (born November 30, 1972 in Turin ) is an Italian jazz singer.

Live and act

Roberta Gambarini was introduced to jazz at an early age by her father, an amateur saxophonist . She began with the piano and clarinet, took classical singing lessons in Rome and made her debut as a singer in jazz clubs at the age of 17. At the age of 18 she moved to Milan to work professionally as a jazz singer ( she had no money for an academic education, for example in Berklee ). A year later she won third place in the national jazz radio singing competition and began performing in clubs and festivals across Italy. She made her first recordings in 1986. In the mid-1990s she taught jazz singing for three years at the municipal jazz school in Milan. In 1997 she went on tour in Italy with Emmanuel Bex .

In 1998 she went to the USA with a scholarship (as " Artist in Residence " for two years) from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and was third in the Thelonious Monk singing competition (behind Teri Thornton and Jane Monheit ). Shortly afterwards she moved to New York, where she wanted to gain a foothold with a repertoire of her own texts to music by Charles Mingus , Thelonious Monk , Eric Dolphy , Ornette Coleman . Since then she has performed at international festivals such as the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Toronto, Juan-les-Pins and Monterey festivals . In 2004 she toured with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band and in 2006 and 2007 with her own trio and the Hank Jones Trio. In 2004 her album 16 Men and a Chick Swinger Singing was released with the big band of the brothers Dean Pratt and Michael Pratt. In 2006 her American debut album "Easy to Love" was released (on In and Out Records, with James Moody , among others ), which was nominated for a Grammy and received the Swing Journal award for best vocal album in 2005 in Japan . She not only sought contact with the jazz tradition in collaboration with Hank Jones and James Moody, she also visited Benny Carter in Los Angeles in 2000 , where she sang at his tribute concert at the North Sea Jazz Festival.

She worked u. a. with Roy Hargrove , Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker , Christian McBride , Herbie Hancock , Jimmy Heath , Toots Thielemans , Slide Hampton , Harold Land , Curtis Fuller , Johnny Griffin , Dave Brubeck , Jake Hanna , Sullivan Fortner , Ron Carter and the Dizzy Gillespie All Star big band .

In 2006 she sang in the premiere of Dave Brubeck's "Cannery Row Suite" at the Monterey Jazz Festival .

In 2007 she received the JJA Award as a singer and in 2010 she received the Rising Star Award in the Down Beat Critics Poll.

Discographic notes

  • You Are There Universal Music, Berlin 2007
  • So in Love Emarcy, 2009
  • Roberta Gambarini & Andrea Donati Under Italian Skies Kind of Blue 2011
  • Connecting Spirits: The Jimmy Heath Songbook. With the Heath Brothers Band Groovin'High Records, 2015

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ allaboutjazz
personal data
SURNAME Gambarini, Roberta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin