ITALIAN WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL: MARIA PIA DE VITO QUARTET: DEDICATED TO JONI MITCHELL at Blue Note |
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| Venue: | Blue Note |
| Performer: | ITALIAN WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL: MARIA PIA DE VITO QUARTET: DEDICATED TO JONI MITCHELL |
| Start Time: | Friday, Feb 1, 8:00 pm |
| Price: | BAR: $20.00 TABLE:$30.00 |
| Description: | FEATURING:
Maria Pia, vocals
Edward Simon, piano
Scott Colley, bass
Clarence Penn, drums
A Singer, composer, and arranger, Maria Pia studied lyrical and contemporary singing and began her on-stage activity in 1976 as a singer and player (plectra, percussions, piano) in research groups committed to ethnic music as well as ethnic and non-ethnic polyphony, mostly related to the Mediterranean, Balkan and south-American areas. Since '80, she's been active in the jazz sphere, collaborating steadily with musicians like John Taylor, Ralph Towner, Rita Marcotulli, Ernst Rejiseger, Paolo Fresu, Norma Winstone, Steve Swallow, Gianluigi Trovesi, David Linx, Diederik Wissels and gigging with musicians having the calibre of Joe Zawinul, Michael Brecker, Miroslav Vitous, Uri Caine, Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Eliot Ziegmund, Cameron Brown, Steve Turre, Maria Joao, Ramamani Ramanujan, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Nguyen-le and many others. She's participated in the most important international festivals, and has run many European and overseas tours.
After 15 years of jazz practice, much work on the great American songbook, on scat and be-bop, and the first trespassing into free, she began a new phase of her work with the project Nauplia, conceived and directed together with Rita Marcotulli. The music marries jazz and the multi-shaped peculiarities of Neapolitan singing ("Nauplia", "Fore Paese", "Triboh").
Since 1996 she's collaborated with the British composer Colin Towns; with his Big Band, the "Mask Orchestra", she played live at the major festivals in England and Germany including the remarkable exhibition at the Queen Elizabeth Hall of London with the "Mask Symphonic" (70 musicians) and the participation of Norma Winstone.
In 1997 she formed a trio with John Taylor and Ralph Towner, with which she recorded the CD "Verso", did several tours in Italy and a long European tour during 2001. In that year the name of Maria Pia has been inserted, by the most celebrated signatures of American jazz press, in the category "BEYOND ARTIST" of the 49th DOWN BEAT CRITICS POLL; in this list, her name appears near the ones of outstanding artists such as Caetano Veloso, Joni Mitchell, Cesaria Evora, Olu Dara, Carlos Santana, Uri Caine and Marisa Monte. This very important acknowledgement has definitively imposed her at an international level.
2003 was the year for the project and the CD "Tumulti", which represents her most experimental work, oriented to interaction between voice, improvisation and electronics, by the side of Patrice Heral, co-leader of the project, and with the collaboration of the brilliant cello player Ernst Reijseger and the Austrian pianist Paul Urbanek, multi-awarded in his country for his "reverse composing" works. "Tumulti" was received with enormous approval by the critics, and was performed live at jazz festivals in Italy and abroad.
In her latest work, "So Right" (2005), together with the co-leaders Danilo Rea and Enzo Pietropaoli and the contribute of the drummer Aldo Romano, she faces a reflection about the song form, through the composition of originals and the reinterpretation of songs by Joni Mitchell, great innovator of the North American songbook. |
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