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Carla Marciano
alto and sopranino sax
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 Carla
Marciano is an Italian musician and composer from Salerno. She started studying
music at the age of eleven, first playing the piano and then the alto saxophone
and she took her diploma in clarinet at the State School of Music in Salerno. Then,
she played with the "Matera Concert Band" directed by Ettore Fioravanti.
"Trane's
Groove" (with Alessandro La Corte-piano,
Aldo Vigorito
and Dario Deidda-bass, Donato Cimaglia-drums) is the title of her
first cd, released by DDQ (Black Saint/Soul Note – IREC) in
2002. Thanks to this project she wished to pay
homage to the great
John Coltrane,
with original compositions and some standards, exploring and re-examining his instrumental
language with a particular attention to his modal period.
 Her
second cd "A
Strange Day" has been released in 2005
by BLACK SAINT, Bonandrini's prestigious, as well as historical Italian label, so
much appreciated in USA. Few Italian musicians record for this label and Carla
Marciano is one of them.
With the precious collaboration of Alessandro La Corte on piano,
Aldo Vigorito
on bass and
Gaetano Fasano on drums, the project develops a personal discourse,
mainly through original compositions. With a precise sketch at the bottom, the quartet
proposes a passionate and instinctive music, sometimes impetuous and vehement and
sometimes interrupted by spiritual atmospheres and moments of meditation and reflection.
You can pass from the modal pieces, which are the right ground to express a liberty
of phrasing that often pushes on to extreme harmonic solutions, to the soft and
seductive ballads.
In October 2006 Carla Marciano
introduced this cd in USA, performing, with her quartet, at three important jazz
festivals: the HARTFORD INTERNAIONL JAZZ FESTIVAL, the FIREHOUSE 12 Jazz Festival
in New Haven and the "ITALIAN WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL" (produced by Italian Cultural
Institute of New York) at Symphony Space Theater on Broadway in New York.
 "Change
Of Mood" is the title of her new cd just released by BLACK SAINT. She
plays with the same quartet (La Corte - Vigorito - Fasano) and this is the first
cd that contains only her compositions.
Carla Marciano has already attracted attention from numerous jazz magazines,
among which: JAZZ TIMES, CADENCE MAGAZINE, JAZZ IT, MUSICA JAZZ, JAZZ MAGAZINE,
ALL ABOUT JAZZ, JAZZ REVIEW, JAZZ MONTHLY, JAZZITALIA, SUONO and many others and
her cds have received extremely positive reviews. Moreover, her cds have been introduced
in some national and international radio and TV programmes.
 The
cd "A Strange
Day" has been included in the prestigious American CADENCE MAGAZINE's
TOP TEN CDs' list for 2006.
Carla Marciano is in the TOP LIST (the only woman) of the "Best Italian
New Talent" category of the MUSICA JAZZ magazine's TOP JAZZ
2005 critics' poll.
Carla Marciano has performed her music projects, with her quartet, in numerous
remarkable national and international jazz festivals and clubs, among which: HARTFORD
INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL '06, Hartford (USA) - FIREHOUSE 12 '06, New Haven (USA)
- ITALIAN WOMEN IN JAZZ '06, New York (USA) - INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL of Montenegrin
National Theatre '05, Podgorica (MONTENEGRO) - JAZZ IN SARDEGNA/ EUROPEAN JAZZ EXPO'
'06 - CLUSONE JAZZ '05 - VICENZA JAZZ '04 - ISEO JAZZ '06 - VILLA CELIMONTANA '06,
Roma - LA PALMA JAZZ CLUB/ JAZZITA' '06, Roma - BOLZANO INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL'04
- PINOCCHIO JAZZ LIVE '07, Firenze - PORDENONE JAZZ KOINE' '07 - OVER JAZZ E CONTAMINAZIONI,
'04, Milano - BEAT ONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL '03 - EDDIE LANG JAZZ FESTIVAL '04 - LA SOSTA/JAZZMIN
'06, Villa S.Giovanni - ESPERANTO JAZZ FESTIVAL '04 Roma - DONNE IN JAZZ '04 -05
(Adkins Chiti Foundation), Frascati e Roma - BLUE BRASS '06 (The Brass Group), Palermo
- LUCCA JAZZ DONNA '05 - TEATRO REGINA MARGERITA ‘07, Caltanissetta - INCONTRI INTERNAZIONALI
DELLA MUSICA '07, Salerno – POMIGLIANO JAZZ FESTIVAL '07 - ATELIER MUSICALE '07
(with Cerri-Intra Doppio Trio), Milano – and many others…
She has occasionally played with: Enrico Intra,
Franco Cerri,
Victor Bailey, Hiram Bullock,
Bill Evans
(sax), Ettore Fioravanti, Ernst Reijseger, Tony Arco, Wolfgang
Haffner, Carl Anderson, Karl Potter, Dario Deidda, Lucio
Terzano, Giovanni Amato, Stefano Sabatini,
Antonio Onorato
and others.
Discography:
"Trane's
Groove" Carla Marciano DDQ
2002
"A
Strange Day" Carla Marciano 4tet Black Saint
2005
"Change of mood" Carla Marciano
4tet Black Saint 2007
Contacs and information:
Carla Marciano
web: www.carlamarciano.it
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