Roberto Ottaviano

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Roberto Ottaviano (* 21st December 1957 in Bari ) is an Italian jazz - saxophonist and composer .

biography

Roberto Ottaviano first learned drums and flute by himself, but then had clarinet lessons at the conservatory in Bari for five years. Under the influence of the music of Lester Young and John Coltrane , he then learned the saxophone. After his school days in Perugia , the first sessions with Evan Parker and Jimmy Giuffre followed. He studied harmony and classical composition with Walter Boncompagni , and also took courses with Giacomo Manzoni and Luigi Nono . Inspired by an encounter with Steve Lacy , he concentrated on playing the soprano saxophone in the 1980s. During a stay in America he also studied arrangement and jazz composition with Ran Blake , Bill Russo and George Russell . Ottaviano gained his first musical experience with Afro-American music in a local big band with guest American musicians such as Buck Clayton , Ernie Wilkins , Benny Bailey and Sal Nistico ; later he became a member of Andrea Centazzo's Mitteleuropa Orchestra , where he met Gianluigi Trovesi , Theo Jörgensmann , Franz Koglmann , Carlo Actis Dato , Radu Malfatti and Carlos Zingaro .

Ottaviano became known outside of Italy through his participation in record sessions in the 1980s by Franz Koglmann, Georg Graewe , Ran Blake and Tiziana Ghiglioni . In 1983 he recorded his first album ( Aspects ) under his own name for Tactus Records ; Giancarlo Schiaffini , Paolo Fresu and Carlo Actis Dato played in his band . In 1986 he formed a quartet with Arrigo Cappellatti , and in 1987 he recorded the album The Leap with Ray Anderson as a guest musician . Ottaviano has now released more than ten albums, mainly on the Splasc (h) label. In 1988 he founded the wind ensemble Six Mobiles , with which he created his Mingus homage Mingus - Portraits In Six Colors in 1988, and the album Utems from the Old Earth in December 1990 .

Ottaviano has also appeared as a soloist since 1979 and has worked with numerous jazz musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie , Art Farmer , Mal Waldron , Albert Mangelsdorff , Chet Baker , Enrico Rava , Barre Phillips , Keith Tippett , Steve Swallow , Irene Schweizer , Kenny Wheeler , Henri Texier , Paul Bley , Aldo Romano , Myra Melford , Tony Oxley , Misha Mengelberg , Han Bennink , Trilok Gurtu , Pierluigi Balducci , the Korean formation Samulnori and the singing drums by Pierre Favre . He has performed at many American and European jazz festivals, such as the Berlin Total Music Meeting , the Chicago Jazz Festival , the Donaueschinger Musiktage , the JazzFest Berlin and the Willisau Jazz Festival .

As a music teacher, he held courses at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock and at conservatories in Mexico City, Vienna and Groningen as well as at independent cultural institutions in Urbino, Cagliari, Florence, Siracusa and Rome. Roberto Ottaviano is also the author of the book The Sax: The Instrument, the History, the Protagonists , published by F. Muzzio, Padua 1989. He also teaches jazz music at the N. Piccinni Conservatory in Bari.

Discographic notes

  • Arrigo Cappellatti / Roberto Ottaviano Quartet: Samashi (Splasc (h), 1986)
  • Mingus - Portraits in six Colors (Splasc (h), 1988)
  • Items from the Old Earth (Splasc (h), 1990)
  • Above Us (Splasc (h), 1990)
  • Hybrid and Hot (Splasc (h), 1995) with Tom Varner, Michel Godard, Gianluca Petrella , Marcell Magliocchi
  • Black Spirits Are Here Again (DIW, 1996) with Mal Waldron
  • Live in Israel (Soul Note, 2001) with Giorgio Vendola , Roberto Dani
  • Roberto Ottaviano Quarktet: Sideralis (Dodicilune Dischi; 2017)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Richard Cook & Brian Morton awarded the two albums the second highest rating in the second edition of their Penguin Guides to Jazz .
personal data
SURNAME Ottaviano, Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian jazz saxophonist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bari