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SCOLARI CLAUDIO - THE MY FOURTEEN SONGS
Using voice, percussion, synthesizers and guitars, Italian composer/percussionist Claudio Scolari blends jazz, blues, and world music textures to create an album of dramatic musical landscapes,Claudio Scolari work is intricately composed, highly original,and distinctly personal all qualities that mark steps forward in musical innovation.
Principal Records,2005

SCOLARI CLAUDIO - BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:
Claudio Scolari took a diploma at the College of music A.Boito in Parma with professor Stefano Cantarelli, his artistic carreer developed in two different areas: the Classical and Contemporary music one and the Avantguard Jazz music one in collaboration with some of the most prestigious sinphonic orchestras in Italy e.g. The RAI National Simphonic Orchestra of Turin going on tour in Spain, Switzerland and Germany from 1989 to 2004 and collaborating with the following Orchestra Directors: Giuseppe Sinopoli, Luciano Berio, Fruhbech de Burgos,Whun Chung, Eliahu Imbal, Jeffrey Tate, Yutaka Sado, Georges Pretre, Daniel Oren, Aleksandr Lazarev, Dmitrij Kitaenko, Gianandrea Noseda, Kristian Jarvi, Gyorgy Gyorivanyi Rath, Lu Jia, Yuri Ahronovitch, Riccardo Chally, Ingo Metzmacher, Michel Plasson, Gennadij Rozdestvenskij, Garcia Navarro, James judd, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Sylvain Cambreling, Daniele Callegari, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Gary Bertini, Emmanuel Krivine, Zoltàn Pesko, Daniele Gatti, Kazushi Ono, Vladimir Delman, Josè Serebrier, Ion Marin, Isaac Karabtchevsky.

He collaborated with the following Solo Voices: Uto Ughi, Mikhail Pletnev, Viktorija Postnikova, Gil Shaham, Mischa Maisky, Viktoria Mullova, Emanuel Ax, Ivry Gitlis, Catherine Malfitano, Alicia de Larrocha, Maria Joao Pires, Natalja Gutman, Mario Brunello, Louis Lortie, Giuliano Carmignola, Pietro De Maria, Mark Kaplan, Giuseppe Scotese, Andrea Lucchesini, Gerhard Oppitz. The Simphonic Orchestra of theater La Fenice of Venice, the Simphonic Orchestra of theater Della Rena of Verona, Simphonic Orchestra Arturo Toscanini of Parma, the Simphonic Orchestra of the Italian-Swiss Radio, the Philarmonic Orchestra of Parma with which played the Requiem of Verdi in Rome directed by Zubin Mehta. He also partecipated to the concert held in Rome in honour of Pope John Paul The Second. He partecipated to the concert to celebrate Luciano Pavarottiâs birthday held in Montecarlo. He partecipated to the Pavarotti & Friends editions of 1999 â 2000 â 2002 and 2003 collaborating with international artists such as PAVAROTTI, STING, LOU REED, GRACE JONES, JAMES BROWN, JOE COCKER, B.B. KING, LIONEL RICHIE, AUGUSTO ENRIQUEZ, GEORGE MICHAEL, TRACY CHAPMAN, ZUCCHERO, RENATO ZERO, GIANNI MORANDI, GLORIA ESTEFAN, ANDREA BOCELLI, GINO PAOLI, QUEEN, DEEP PURPLE, ERIC CLAPTON, BONO, RICKY MARTIN, LAURA PAUSINI, IRENE GRANDI. He collaborated with the American drums player STEVE GADD. He played at the âBiennale di Veneziaâ with the American drums player Chad Wackerman executing a composition by Frank Zappa.

SCOLARI CLAUDIO:
The My Forteen Songs (Principal Records) Review.

To be honest when I received this cd I felt excited because the curriculum vitae of Claudio Scolari is really outstanding.
For who still doesnât know it let me summarize some of its key points. Claudio is graduated in percussion instruments and his artistic career has followed two directions both very binding: the classical music one and the avant-garde jazz music one, two worlds that, in spite of a long tradition, have always had some difficulties to approach, so that usually classical musicians hardly venture in the world of jazz music, and even seldom in other âminorâ worlds such as Blues, Rock and Pop music.

Scolari had the honor of to collaborate with some of the most prestigious italian symphonic orchestras starting from the National Symphonic Orchestra of the Italian Broadcasting Corporation. He participated in four editions of the Pavarotti & Friends and collaborated with a considerable number of artists, going from Uto Ughi to Steve Gadd, but if you want to go deeper I suggest you to visit his internet site www.claudioscolari.com where you will be able to find all the information on this artist.

Coming to the cd we are talking about an album entirely composed by Claudio, who here plays the battery, the percussions, the sinth and also sings, on his side we find the guitarist Donnie Romano (winner of the Pistoia Blues Festival 2004) and as special guest the singer Martina Gianotti in a track. The artistic purpose is clear since the first listening, Scolari loves to test and to seek new expression languages, taking inspiration from musics like jazz, blues and ethnic music. He plays with blending, decomposing and ricomponing rhythms and melodies giving new life and color to ancient always new emotions. The rhythms are usually essential, Scolari has definitely surpassed the need of to show his actual abilities with virtuousisms alone and prefers to concentrate on taste, feeling and on the intrinsic beauty of the compositions. In this sense his music result really and Donnie Romano often enchants with its guitar. It sometimes seems hat Scolari stands a little apart to leave free space to the involving enthusiasm of his friendâs guitar. The notes come out sometimes sweet, sometimes full of electricity and energy, in the same manner the rhythms are now smooth and then vital and complex. On everything a great care for the sound. The fourteen tracks have on average a short duration for this kind of music, but have the quality to be able to to be listened in one breath as if they were a sole work.

Listening to this music is a privilege and I invite you to seek between the ruts of this cd those emotions that is more difficult to experience listening to a disk of nowadays, I sincerely wish that this does not remain a privilege for a few feople. GB