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Andrea Pozza

Andrea Pozza - Jazz Pianist - Composer

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"ENTER EYES", il nuovo album di Andrea Celeste e Andrea Pozza in duo .
Un disco elegante, raffinato, che unisce la maturità musicale e la raffinatezza espressiva di Andrea Pozza alla sensibile e ricercata vocalità di Andrea Celeste.
L'album contiene 13 tracce e una bonus track live, registrata in occasione del "Valbadia Jazz Festival".
Ospite d'onore nel brano "Pure Imagination" tratto dal film "Willy Wonka e la fabbrica di cioccolato" è il giovane crooner rivelazione Matteo Brancaleoni.

Foto: © Alberto Terrile 2008
ENTER EYES - Track List:
1.Blackbird (J.Lennon - P.McCartney)
2.Taking a Chance On Love (Latouche - Fetter - Duke)
3.I'll Be There For You (A.Celeste - A.Pozza)
4.Gull's Flight (R.Miccoli - A.Pozza)
5.This Masquerade (L.Russell)
6.Dancing Fog (A.Pozza - B.Genuardi)
7.Love Is The Way (A.Celeste - A.Pozza)
8.Black And Blue (T.F.Waller - H.Brooks - A.Razaf)
9.Dinah (H.Akst - S.M.Lewis - J.Young)
10.Blue Skies (I.Berlin)
11.All In Love Is Fair (S.Wonder)
12.Pure Imagination FEAT. Matteo Brancaleoni (L.Bricusse - A.Newley)
13.Bridge Over Troubled Water (P.Simon)
14.You Don't Know What Love Is [ Live@ Valbadia Jazz Festival] (G.De Paul - D.Raye)
Prodotto da: Roberto "Robbo" Vigo
© 2008 Zerodieci Studio
All Rights Reserved.
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ANDREA POZZA - Jazz Pianist - Composer Born in Genoa Italy Andrea Pozza started playing at a very young age dedicating himself at the same time to jazz and classical music. At the age of only 13 he made his debut at the Louisiana Jazz Club in Genoa. From that time on he began an intense concert activity which gave him the opportunity to co-operate with famous American musicians both in jazz clubs and in international Jazz Festivals. At the age of 16, from 1981 to 1985, he was part of the CEE "EUROJAZZ" "THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA" playing in many European capitals including London, Bruxelles, Rome. In 1985 Andrea Pozza took part in the Italian "JAZZ CUP" with his TRIO on RAI UNO in a series of live broadcasting. He won The RAI contest as "best pianist", among all young European participants, for the creation of a New Talents' Orchestra for persons under 25. He won the first prize for the "best jazz composition" in a contest announced by SIAE in 1992.In the last years he was in tour with the STEVE GROSSMAN QUARTET in PARIS at the "TEATRE DE LA VILLE JAZZ FESTIVAL" and in LONDON at the "RONNIE SCOTT' S JAZZ CLUB". He cooperated in ROME and GENOA with the GEORGE COLEMAN QUARTET. He played at the jazz festivals of NICE and JUAN LES PINS. In the last years he did some "two pianos" concerts with Dado Moroni .Recently Andrea is touring with the Dick DeGraaf (tenor) Quartet and they had an important tour in Indonesia (march 2002) and in Europe (Holland, Switzerland ,Luxembourg and Holland) The quartet played at the North Sea Jazz Festival 2003 presenting the new cd of the quartet "Shubert Impressions for Jazz Quintet".He recorded in 2003 his first trio cd “INTRODUCING” with Luciano Milanese (bs)and Stefano Bagnoli (dr) (Philology).Since the 2004 is the pianist of the Enrico Rava Quintet with whom he performed in very important festivals aroun the world (Paris Jazz Champ Floreal, Umbria Jazz 2004,2005 and 2006, Montreal Jazz Festival,Jazz Baltica 2005, Berlin Jazz Festival 2005, etc) and recorded for ECM a new cd of E. Rava Quintet “The Words and the Days”.In 2005 he recorded His second Trio cd "Plays Ellington,Monk and Himself" recorded live in Ancona for the GOFOUR Records .Recently he recorded a trio cd in London with Nicola Muresu (bass) and Shane Forbes (drums) for the English Jazz Label of Paul Jolly 33Records (www.33jazz.com) .He continually cooperate with STEVE GROSSMAN, GIANNI BASSO, ENRICO RAVA, GEORGE ROBERT, FERENC NEMETH, BOB BONISOLOwww.andreapozza.it

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Member Since: 11/2/2006
Band Website: andreapozza.it
Influences: All the Jazz Masters.....Fats Waller, Art tatum, Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson...etcBud Powell, Red Garland, Winton Kelly, Bobby Timmons, Hampton Hawes.....etcMc Coy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Paul Bley, Keit Jarret....and of course: Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Duke and Count, Bird, Miles, KD, Coltrane, Monk, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter......Thank's to all them and also, in a special way, to the great musicians with who I had the luckyness to play with: Sweets, Chet, George Coleman, Sal Nistico, Al Grey, James Moody,Jonny Griffin, Gianni Basso, Enrico Rava, Luciano Milanese, Carlo Atti, Massimo Urbani, Elliot Zigmund...............
Sounds Like: Andrea Pozza, Peter Washington, Lewis Nash in Genoa 23 Apr "Spring Festival 2007" of Borgo ClubAndrea Pozza, Dado Moroni, Peter Washington, Lewis Nash in Genoa 23 Apr "Spring Festival 2007" of Borgo Club
Record Label: Philology - GoFour - Venus Records - Dejavu Rec
Type of Label: None

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