Roberto Zorzi
Roberto Maria Zorzi (* around 1962 in Verona ) is an Italian jazz and fusion musician ( guitar ).
Live and act
Zorzi initially played drums, electric bass and trombone; then he switched to guitar, orienting himself towards Eric Clapton before discovering Derek Bailey . With the quintet NAD he won the Indipendenti 87 competition of Fare musica magazine and in 1989 recorded the album Ghosts, which is reminiscent of Albert Ayler . He was also the artistic director of the Verona Jazz Festival . From the end of the 1980s he also worked in the Italian and international music scene; In 1989 recordings were made together with Albert Mangelsdorff , Roberto Ottaviano , Franco D'Andrea, Ernst Reijseger , Paolo Damiani and Trilok Gurtu ( Capriccio a Milano ). In the 1990s and 2000s he played in various band projects with Henry Kaiser , Chris Cutler , Joey Baron and Elliott Sharp . In 2018 he presented the trio album Facanapa & Umarells and the World Wide Crash with bassist Michael Manring and drummer Scott Amendola .
Discographic notes
- Tim Berne , Bobby Previte , Mark Feldman , Herb Robertson , Matteo Ederle , Percy Jones , Roberto Zorzi: Bang! ( Ictus Records , rec. 1990, ed. 2011)
- La 1919 / Chris Cutler / Charles Hayward / Roberto Zorzi: Jouer. Play. To Play (Materiali Sonori, 1994)
- Henry Kaiser & Roberto Zorzi: Through (Materiali Sonori, 1999)
- Joey Baron / Elliott Sharp / Roberto Zorzi: Beyond (Auditorium Edizioni, 2001)
Web links
- interview
- Roberto Zorzi at Allmusic (English)
- Roberto Zorzi at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ biography
- ↑ NAD
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 23, 2018)
- ↑ published under the title Omonimo in 1990 by Nueva .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zorzi, Roberto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zorzi, Roberto Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian jazz and fusion musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1962 |