Carlo Battisti

MySpace Comments MySpace Layouts MySpace Editor MySpace Animations MySpace GraphicsBattisti’s artistic career started in the mid Seventies in various rock, jazz and progressive bands that developed from the Canterbury Movement (Soft Machine, Henry Cow etc.). He performed in all the youth music festivals in his home town, Rome, and all around Italy. His musical experiences were focused on experimenting from the very start and soon lead him to jazz and improvisation. Carlo Battisti starts studying with great determination and discipline (with Jimmy Cobb, master of jazz drumming, with Max Roach, whom he considers as his mentor, and later at Drum Collective in New York); meanwhile he listens to the great Afro-American jazzmen, by buying albums and attending concerts at the Music Inn, the legendary Roman jazz venue. In 1981 he becomes a member of a popular dixieland band, “Old Time Jazz Band” - they perform in in another famous venue in Rome, “Mississippi jazz club”. Whilst in the Old Time Jazz Band he has the honour of playing with the best classic jazz solo artists such as Wild Bill Davison , Billy Butterfield etc. Also, in those days the rhythmic section of the band accompanied many great jazzmen when they happened to be in Rome. Among the others, Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Al Cohn , Joe Newman , Earle Warren , Al Grey . On these occasions Lino Patruno and trombonist Marcello Rosa notice him and Carlo starts working with them, playing all around Italy and recording with them. The following years he plays in all sorts of jazz scenes, in small bands and big bands, in many different styles, aside numerous great Italian and American musicians: Massimo Urbani , Maurizio Giammarco , Gian Luigi Trovesi , Danilo Rea , Stefano Di Battista , Flavio Boltro , Franco Ambrosetti , Fabio Morgera , Rosario Giuliani , Riccardo Biseo , Gianni Basso , Dado Moroni , Fabrizio Bosso , Antonio Farao’, Joe Pass , Mulgrew Miller , John Hicks , Tony Scott , Barry Harris , Joe Diorio , Steve Grossmann , Don Pullen , Chico Freeman , Artur Blythe , Bob Wilber , Etta Jones , Jon Hendricks , Mark Murphy , Lee Konitz , Benny Golson etc. Carlo Battisti always has been partial to experimentalism and uses his art in collaboration with other forms of art, dance, fine art, poetry, prose. He has often played a part in projects that involved different forms of expressions. He has had significant collaborations with great Italian actor Arnoldo Foà, in a project dedicated to Leopardi’s poetry, with actors Alessandro Haber (“Bukowsky-memorie di un genio”), Italian-English Anna Zapparoli (“Molly Bloom”, “1933 And All That”), Massimo Venturiello. One of the most interesting projects he worked on was “Aleph”, on works by Borges. It boldly combined lighting, visual and digital effects with music played by a band called “Projazz Quartet”, creating a strongly emotional performance. Carlo also works as a drummer on movie soundtracks and on recordings for theatre shows. The most recently released was the soundtrack of “Sweet Sweet Marja” (2007). He often teaches and does workshops in music schools and summer festivals such as “Injazz” in Fabriano. Carlo i also frontman of a band called “Groove Therapy”, along with Luca Velotti, saxophonist in Paolo Conte’s band and very talented musician. Carlo plays in Projazz Quartet, Bassless Trio, Boptet (with Enrico Ghelardi), Meeting Jazz Trio (with Pietro Lussu and Pietro Ciancaglini), La Dual Band (with Maestro Mario Borciani and Anna Zapparoli). ************************************************************ ****** Ha studiato sotto la guida di Jimmy Cobb e Max Roach nell'ambito degli stages di Perugia e Ravenna ed in seguito con Marvin "Smitty" Smith presso il Drummers Collective di New York.
Ha suonato con importanti nomi del jazz italiano ed internazionale:
Massimo Urbani, Marcello Rosa , Amedeo Tommasi , Sandro Satta, Gianni Coscia, Gian Luigi Trovesi,Lee Konitz , Joe Pass, Joe Diorio, Bucky Pizzarelli, Rosario Giuliani, Vincent Herring, Lino Patruno , Wild Bill Davison, Joe Newman, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Al Cohn, Tony Scott, Robin Kenyatta, Spiegle Wilcox, George Masso, Giacomo Gates, Pietro Lussu , Stefano Di Battista , John Mosca , Earle Warren, Winton Marsalis, Mulgrew Miller, John Hendricks, Michelle Hendricks, Kelvin Sholar, Joe Magnarelli , Curtis Lundy, John Hycks , Bob Wilber,Carlo Atti, Fabrizio Bosso, Maurizio Giammarco, Dick Sudhalter, Oscar Klein, Etta Jones, Don Pullen , Chico Freeman , Arthur Blythe , Houston Pearson , Pete Malinverni , Virginia Mayhew , Kim Parker, Dominique Eade, Betty Shirley, Ada Rovatti , Mike Le Donne , Gianni Basso , Franco Ambrosetti , Antonio Farao’, Dado Moroni , Barry Harris , Renato Chicco , Damon Brown, Jim Snidero, Mark Murphy, Charles Davis, Steve Grossman, Patrizia Scascitelli, , Al Grey, Benny Golson .
Ha suonato in tutti i maggiori jazz clubs e teatri italiani, in molti paesi europei, Stati Uniti ed in Medio Oriente. Ha partecipato a numerosi programmi televisivi e radiofonici esibendosi inoltre in importanti jazz festivals .
Programmi televisivi e radiofonici: RAI International, programmi del DSE, Telethon, Maurizio Costanzo Show, Radio uno sera jazz, Radio tre suite .
Jazz festivals: Umbria Jazz, Pescara Jazz, Pescara jazz 'n fall, Roma Jazz Festival di Villa Celimontana, Roccella Jonica, Ancona Jazz, Acireale jazz, Sanremo jazz, Como jazz, Potenza jazz, Supino jazz, Foggia Jazz, La Spezia Jazz, Aosta Jazz Festival, Monteroduni jazz festival, Sant’ Anna Arresi, Lanciano traditional jazz festival, Percfest Laigueglia, Fano jazz festival, Heineken Jazz Festival (Libano), Halle e Berlino Jazz Festival (Germania), Tel Aviv jazz fest., San Sebastian (Spagna), Pristina (Concerto per il Kosovo), Manly jazz fest. Sydney.
Ha partecipato a numerose incisioni discografiche, collaborando alla realizzazione di colonne sonore per il Cinema ed il Teatro.
Si .. esibito inoltre in performances di Jazz legate al teatro, alla danza e alla poesia.
Alla sua attivit.. di free-lance affianca quella di insegnante, con seminari e corsi stabili di batteria jazz e musica d'insieme. www.injazz.it mspmb allowScriptAccess="never" src="http://lads.myspace.com/slides/photoslider.swf?u=188132 790&aid=412191" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="445" height="230" ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------Carlo Battisti’s artistic career started in the mid Seventies in various rock, jazz and progressive bands that developed from the Canterbury Movement (Soft Machine, Henry Cow etc.). He performed in all the youth music festivals in his home town, Rome, and all around Italy. His musical experiences were focused on experimenting from the very start and soon lead him to jazz and improvisation. Carlo Battisti starts studying with great determination and discipline (with Jimmy Cobb, master of jazz drumming, with Max Roach, whom he considers as his mentor, and later at Drum Collective in New York); meanwhile he listens to the great Afro-American jazzmen, by buying albums and attending concerts at the Music Inn, the legendary Roman jazz venue. In 1981 he becomes a member of a popular dixieland band, “Old Time Jazz Band” - they perform in in another famous venue in Rome, “Mississippi jazz club”. Whilst in the Old Time Jazz Band he has the honour of playing with the best classic jazz solo artists such as Wild Bill Davison , Billy Butterfield etc. Also, in those days the rhythmic section of the band accompanied many great jazzmen when they happened to be in Rome. Among the others, Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Al Cohn , Joe Newman , Earle Warren , Al Grey . On these occasions Lino Patruno and trombonist Marcello Rosa notice him and Carlo starts working with them, playing all around Italy and recording with them. The following years he plays in all sorts of jazz scenes, in small bands and big bands, in many different styles, aside numerous great Italian and American musicians: Massimo Urbani , Maurizio Giammarco , Gian Luigi Trovesi , Danilo Rea , Stefano Di Battista , Flavio Boltro , Franco Ambrosetti , Fabio Morgera , Rosario Giuliani , Riccardo Biseo , Gianni Basso , Dado Moroni , Fabrizio Bosso , Antonio Farao’, Joe Pass , Mulgrew Miller , John Hicks , Tony Scott , Barry Harris , Joe Diorio , Steve Grossmann , Don Pullen , Chico Freeman , Artur Blythe , Bob Wilber , Etta Jones , Jon Hendricks , Mark Murphy , Lee Konitz , Benny Golson etc. Carlo Battisti always has been partial to experimentalism and uses his art in collaboration with other forms of art, dance, fine art, poetry, prose. He has often played a part in projects that involved different forms of expressions. He has had significant collaborations with great Italian actor Arnoldo Foà, in a project dedicated to Leopardi’s poetry, with actors Alessandro Haber (“Bukowsky-memorie di un genio”), Italian-English Anna Zapparoli (“Molly Bloom”, “1933 And All That”), Massimo Venturiello. One of the most interesting projects he worked on was “Aleph”, on works by Borges. It boldly combined lighting, visual and digital effects with music played by a band called “Projazz Quartet”, creating a strongly emotional performance. Carlo also works as a drummer on movie soundtracks and on recordings for theatre shows. The most recently released was the soundtrack of “Sweet Sweet Marja” (2007). He often teaches and does workshops in music schools and summer festivals such as “Injazz” in Fabriano. Carlo i also frontman of a band called “Groove Therapy”, along with Luca Velotti, saxophonist in Paolo Conte’s band and very talented musician. Carlo plays in Projazz Quartet, Bassless Trio, Boptet (with Enrico Ghelardi), Meeting Jazz Trio (with Pietro Lussu and Pietro Ciancaglini), La Dual Band (with Maestro Mario Borciani and Anna Zapparoli).