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Luca Nostro

Luca Nostro Unser

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Luca Nostro was born in Rome the 11th of June 1971, is a jazz guitar player and composer. He lives between Rome and New York. He has a degree in Law and Economics had at LUISS University in Rome, now is attending the Faculty of Philosophy at La Sapienza University in Rome. His relationship with music begins at the age of ten, when Luca studies piano and also plays in a small young orchestra directed by one of the directors of Sistine Chapel Choir. Then he moves to classica and electric guitar. In 1998 he takes the Diploma, with a specialization in jazz, at University of Music in Rome, where he studies with Fabio Zeppetella (Kenny Wheelher, Tom Harrell) and: Ramberto Ciammarughi, Umberto Fiorentino, Massimo Moriconi Giovanni Tommaso, Danilo Rea, Maurizio Giammarco, Rosario Giuliani, Fabrizio Sferra, Andrea Avena e Roberto Spadoni. He takes part to several workshop on jazz improvisation with: Maurizio Giammarco, Danilo Rea, Giovanni Tommaso, Fabrizio Sferra, Pete Bernstein. He’s one of the partners of Percentomusica School of music in Rome, directed by Massimo Moriconi (one of the most well known bass player in Italy), where he teaches guitar and history of popular music. He also writes articles and essays on Philosophy of Music, beeing invited for conferences (University of La Sapienza, University of Roma Tre) also in TV (Rai Utile). In 2002 he was the editor of a book on philosophy of music (L’esperienza musicale. Per una fenomenologia dei suoni. Collana i Libri di Montag, Manifestolibri 2002) that hosted philosophers and musicians from all over the world (Philip Tagg, Lawrence “Butch” Morris, Laird Addis, Nicholas Cook). As a musician he performs with many bands, both as a leader and as a sideman (from jazz to pop, from bossa nova to soul nd Rhythm ‘n’ blues). He has been playing with, among others: Lilli Greco, Sandro Deidda, Umberto Forentino, Tassili Bond, Donny McCaslin, Dan Weiss, Francois Moutin, Francesco Puglisi, Stefano Cantarano, Massimo Fedeli, Riccardo Pellegrino, Cristal White, Andy Gravish, Sandy Muller, Claudio Pezzotta, Emilio Merone, Nicola Angelucci, Carlotta Proietti, Andrea Avena Fabrizio Cardosa. As a composer he often works with visual artists and actors, such as Mino Trafeli, Ilir Zefi, Stefano Tonelli (Hamburg 2004), Mimmo Nobile, Luigi Mezzanotte e Carlo Ragone, making sonorizations of their artworks. In New York he recorded 8 songs of his as a band leader at Systems Two in Brooklyn, with his Luca Nostro NYC Unser Quartet with Donny Mccaslin on tenor sax, Francois Moutin on bass and Dan Weiss on drums. Since 2007 he's in the band of Sandy Muller, an italo-brazilian pop singer starting for a spring-summer tour all over Italy. In November 2007 in NYC he recorded with Scott Colley and Antonio Sanchez the cd "Element" with 8 original compositions by him and by italian pianist Emilio Merone that is going to be released in the next months.ACQUISTA ONLINE ULRICH BUY ONLINE ULRICH!!

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Member Since: 1/2/2007
Band Website: percentomusica.com coccostrings.com
Band Members: This project named Ulrich (the main charachter of Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil) is a 8 original songs by myself composed and recorded in New York during a two months staying on August/September 2006...Luca Nostro NYC Unser Quartet is composed by me (Luca Nostro) on guitar and three wonderful musicians that accepted to play for this project: Donny McCaslin tenor sax Francois Moutin bass Dan Weiss drums They changed my music and developed it in ways that I couldn't imagine...thanks to all..Also, Joe, Mike and Nancy Marciano at Systems Two in Brooklyn gave to this record a great sound, exactly the sound I wanted, thank you..Luca Nostro: plays Richard Cocco Strings www.coccostrings.com teaches at Percentomusica www.percentomusica.com sponsor: www.growspartners.it

Influences: Led Zeppelin Phisichal Grapphiti, Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin IV - S. Swallow, Real book - Kenny Wheelher, Angel Song - I. Stravinskij, Apollon Musagete - L. V. Beethoven, Grosse Fugue - J.S. Bach, Mattheus Passion - K. Rosenwinkel, Next step - J. Hendrix, Electric Ladyland - M. Davis, Miles Ahead, Four & more, Round about midnight, Amandla - J. Coltrane, Crescent, Africa Brass, A love supreme, Coltane's sound - Jim Hall, John Scofield
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Sounds Like: Contemporary jazz
Record Label: ORkAaN Music + Art Productions (www.orkaan.com)
Type of Label: Indie

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Good news.. I signed a contract with Orkaan Music + Art Productions from Munich (www.orkaan.com) , so my cd Ulrich is going to be published in june..Bye Bye
Posted by Luca Nostro on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:49:00 PST

Ciao ciao

finalmente eccomi su MySpace, ho messo alcuni estratti del disco che ho registrato a new york, chiunque abbia commenti critiche apprezzamenti è il benvenuto...ciao ciao
Posted by Luca Nostro on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:31:00 PST