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Mauro Campobasso
guitar, composition, arrangment
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 Mauro Campobasso,
guitarist, composer and arranger
was born in Taranto-Italy on January 16, 1967.
He has a degree in Musicology from DAMS in Bologna, with a thesis about music in
Stanely Kubrick's movies. He approaches at instruments when was 17, as an autodidact
and then learns the basics of technique and jazz guitar from Maestro Carmelo Zumbo
with whom he studies since 1986 until
1988.
Formation:
1988: Boston Berklee College Clinics, at Umbria
Jazz, with Bill Pierce, John Damian and Jim Kelly.
1989: seminary held by Joe Diorio, "Mister
Jazz" in Ravenna.
Since 1990 he lives in Bologna.
1989-90:
Siena Jazz
winter CPM: "Musica d'Insieme" (Music Together) by
Enrico
Pieranunzi and Stefano Battaglia.
Summer 1990:
Siena Jazz
summer classes of high improvement
teachers: Amedeo Tommasi, Marcello Piras, Tommaso Lama,
Amedeo Tommasi,
Gianluigi
Trovesi,
Furio Di Castri
and Bruno Tommaso.
1991: Ravenna, Mister Jazz; seminary held by
Pat Metheny
1991/1992:
"San Lazzaro Jazz", classes held by Tommaso Lama; moreover he collaborates
as a student in
Paolo Fresu's didactic project, about realization of a soundtrack
for movies and documentaries, into same school.
Summer 1991:
Siena Jazz
high improvement summer classes
teachers: Amedeo Tommasi, Marcello Piras, Tommaso Lama
1992 until 1994:
he delves deeper guitar and composition techniques with
Domenico Caliri.
Winter 1993: he attends class of Music Together
held by Furio
Di Castri at
Siena Jazz
winter CPM.
Winter 1994: San Lazzaro Jazz, Arrangement and
Composition with Bruno Tommaso
In 1994 he studies classic guitar with Maestro
Guido Sodo.
Summer 1994: Boston Berklee College Clinics
at Umbria Jazz,
teachers: Ron Savage, Ray Santisi, Bruce Gertz, Larry Monroe,
Larry Bethune.
Summer 1996:
Siena Jazz,
high improvement classes; class of Music Together held by
Enrico Rava
and
Marco Tamburini, and arrangement and composition class held by
Giancarlo Gazzani.
In '96 he studies with Maestro Augusto Mancinelli and attends a seminary
at Marsala-Italy with Nguyen Lê.
Professional activity:
 After playing in several formations with many musicians from Bologna, in winter
'95 he founds Relazioni Pericolose quartet (featuring saxophonist Achille Succi
and Ivan Valentini, respectively) with whom, for the first time, debuts as a composer.
This group will allow him refining and understanding large part of composition and
arrangement concepts as if he was in a sort of laboratory; concepts that he'll put
into practice in his discographic works.
In 1999 he's involved into production and arrangement
for Cecilia Finotti singer's first CD, "A flower is a lovesome thing", published
by Splasc(H) Records, in which
Maurizio
Giammarco participates.
Besides doing concerts and teaching, he's involved in music composition and production
projects for documentaries, theatre and dance. In late
1998 he has founded
Mauro Campobasso
Image, an Electric Jazz quintet, with whom has recorded a CD, traded into shops
since May 2000, for DDQ, an Irec label (Soul
Note/Black Saint) owned by Giovanni and Flavio Bonandrini.
Mauro composes and arranges music specifically for this group, also composed by
Mauro Manzoni on saxes,
Alfredo
Impullitti on piano and keyboards, Luca Bulgarelli on bass, and
Alessandro Svampa on drums. This group will perform in important festivals
like Como Jazz, Udine Jazz, in jazz clubs and glamourous places.
In May 2000 he has been involved in recording
of CD "Missa" by
Alfredo
Impullitti (featuring
Paolo Fresu,
Tino Tracanna,
Pierre Favre,
Gianluigi
Trovesi and Orchestra and Choir of Scuola Comunale di Musica Sarti,
in Faenza).
Since October 2000 he's a collaborator for "Axe",
magazine for guitarists, directed by Fabrizio Dadò; he has hundredth of specialistic
articles to his credit, about musical analysis, discographic reviews, a section
about relations between guitar and composition, and articles regarding specifically
equipments for music.
Always in 2000 he starts deepening more and
more new Information Technologies and musical production of projects to be realized
into an home studio, untied from concept of traditional recording studio, until
that time used just for preproduction.
 The first of these projects (2001/2002)
is the realization of artistic production and arrangements for brand new Cecilia
Finotti's CD (see discography), "Nevermore", published in
2004 by Soul Note Records, co-produced with
Cecilia and with participation of important musician from jazz world and not, like
Alfredo
Impullitti, Luca Bulgarelli,
Fabrizio Bosso,
Achille Succi, Mauro Manzoni, Alessandro Svampa and many others.
Due to this production MC Image Studio is born.
Teaching: after collaborating in several schools in hinterland of Emilia Romagna,
between 2002 and 2006
is guitar teacher, Music Together, music informatics and more complementary subjects
at "Le Officine Musicali", in Nonantola (MO) and at "Cantiere dei Suoni" in Castelfranco
Emilia (MO).
In summer 2003 Punto Zero project is born. It's
an atypical duo that consolidates his friendship with Mauro Manzoni, leading
to realization of a homonymous CD for DDQ Records in 2004.
2004/2006:
in pop music world, he collaborates actively with producer Marco Sabiu, from Forlì
(Sabiu has been working with Kyle Minogue, Take That, Perry Black, Tanita Tikaram,
Filippa Giordano, Celso Valli, etc.) in some production, among which French
singer's Françoise Hardy CD (November 2004)
for French EMI-Virgin.
2005: Under the aegis of Metastasio Jazz Festival,
Mauro Campobasso's
& Mauro Manzoni's Chaplin in Jazz project is founded, with Alfredo Laviano
on drums and percussions. The trio is being invited in important festivals, like
Metastasio Jazz, Valenza Jazz, Clusone Jazz and Piacenza Jazz
2007
Radio Programmes:
 Special about Cecilia Finotti on RAI Radio 3, "Terzo Anello" about Nevermore,
Soul Note, 2005
RAI Radio 3 Suite: April 18, 2006 by Pino Saulo
Full broadcaSting of
Mauro Campobasso's
& Mauro Manzoni's Punto Zero 3 at Clusone Jazz 2005
2006/2007.
Transitions, second part of Punto Zero trilogy, started in
2004, with homonymous CD and always realized together with Mauro
Manzoni, in March 2007 for Dodicilune (JazzLe)
Records.
2007: for this years there are on the stocks
a lot of projects: he works on production for new Cecilia Finotti's album
and in short time starts, together with Mauro Manzoni new Punto Zero project:
"Homage To Stanley Kubrick", assisted by precious Stefano Zenni's and Giuseppe
Bruni's collaboration.
2008: new solo project, in balance among electronica,
jazz and rock. In preparation his new trio project.
He collaborates, since academic year 2008-2009
as modern/jazz Guitar teacher with Istituto Musicale "Giuseppe Verdi" in Prato.
Discography
1999. A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing, Cecilia
Finotti, featuring
Maurizio
Giammarco © Splasc(H) records
2000. Love And Lies, Mauro Campobasso
Image © DDQ records
2000. Missa,
Alfredo
Impullitti, featuring
Paolo Fresu,
Pierre Favre,
Gianluigi
Trovesi © Soul Note records
2004. Tant de belles choses, Francoise Hardy.
© EMI / VIRGIN records - France
2004. Punto Zero, Mauro Manzoni /
Mauro Campobasso
© DDQ records
2004. Nevermore, Cecilia Finotti © Soul
Note records
2005. Jazz Magazine, Compilation March
2005, Editrice EmmeK
2007. V. Merlo / M.Guerzoni, Aicha.it, TLM
2007. Jazz Magazine n°55, Compilation, Editrice
EmmeK
2007. Transitions, Mauro Campobasso
& Mauro Manzoni, Dodicilune JazzLe
2008. Jazzfriends for Emergency – Philology
2008. Cecilia Finotti, Novella, Koinè/Dodicilune
2009. Naked Musicians in Emiliano Culastrisce
- Improvvisatore Involontario Records
2010. Marcello Murru, La mia vita galleggia
su un petalo di giglio, Universal
2011. Ears Wide Shut (An Homage to Stanley Kubrick), Mauro Campobasso
& Mauro Manzoni, Parco della musica Records
List of Publications realized by Mauro Campobasso
for monthly national magazine for guitarists, "Axe Magazine", Edizioni Palomino,
director Fabrizio Dadò, managing editor Maurizio Parri
Articles in musical analysis section:
Prego si componga
Axe September 2002 – Mi dia la melodia
Axe October 2002 – Elaborazione ritmica
Axe November 2002 - Comporre con gli intervalli
Axe January 2003 – Melodia e Armonia
Axe February 2003 – Organizzazione del lavoro
Axe March 2003 – Ritmo. Ritmo....ancora ritmo
Axe April 2003 - Forma
Discographic and musical instruments reviews:
Axe October 2001,
Pat Metheny
Songbook, review
Axe January 2001,
Steve Swallow
review and transcription
Axe January 2001, John Abercrombie, review
Axe February 2001, Pablo Bobrowisky, review
Axe May 2001,
John Scofield,
review
Axe June 2001, MI Musicians Institute Press,
multiple reviews
Axe February 2002, Libri possibili e impossibili,
multiple reviews
Axe June 2002,
Jim Hall,
review
Axe June 2002, John Abercrombe, review
Axe September 2002, Virtual Dream, review
Axe September 2002, Mick Goodrick, review
Axe November 2002, Libri Joe Diorio,
multiple reviews
Axe November 2002,
Scott
Henderson, review
Axe May, 2003, reviews libri, Gianni Martini
/ Roberto Fabbri
Axe July/August 2003, Orange, review
Axe December 2003, Umberto Fiorentino
review
Axe March 2004, Kurt Rosenwinkel, review
Axe June 2004, Dave Douglas, review
Axe September 2004, Mesa Boogie Lone Star, amplifier
review
Axe October 2004, Dominic Miller, review
Axe March 2005, Aelx Skolnick, review
Axe April 2005,
Jim Hall,
review
Axe May, 2005,
Walter Beltrami,
review
Axe June 2005, i 10 migliori cd del
2005 secondo
Mauro Campobasso,
short reviews
Axe July – August 2005, Umberto Fiorentino,
review
Axe October 2005,
Pat Metheny
Group, review
Axe June 2006, Ralph Towner, review
Axe April 2007, Maurizio Brunod, review
Axe April 2007, Osvaldo Di Dio Trio,
review
Axe January 2008, Adam Rogers, review
Axe January 2008,
Walter Beltrami,
review
Axe May 2008, Fabularasa, review
Some Jazz Festivals And Shows
Marzo Musicale 91 dell’ Alta Valle del Savena 91 09/03/1991, No Quatre
Bolognetti 6 al 2000, Difference, 21/06/1994, Vicolo Bolognetti, Bologna, Mauro
Campobasso Trio
Bolognetti 8 al 2000, Difference, 09/07/1994, Vicolo Bolognetti, Bologna, Mauro
Campobasso Trio
Bolognetti 8 al 2000, Difference, 16/09/1994, Vicolo Bolognetti, Bologna, Mauro
Campobasso Trio
Nel tempo degli Angeli, Valentianum Festival, Vibo Valentia 22/12/1996, Cecilia
Finotti Quartet
L’ Estate in Città, Mirandola, Chiostro di San Francesco, 11/07/1997, Cecilia
Finotti Trio
Populart Jazz, Bologna 09/12/1997, Cecilia Finotti Quartet, featuring Achille
Succi
Notemenonote Jazz 97, Nereto (Te) 17/07/1997, Cecilia Finotti Quartet, featuring
Achille Succi
Il Chiostro dell’ Arena Arena del Sole (Boest 99/ Bologna 2000) Bologna
27/07/1999, Cecilia Finotti Group
Lignano Jazz 99 Lignano Sabbiadoro, 18/08/1999, Cecilia Finotti Quartet
TPO JAZZ 2000 – Bologna, 05/02/2000, Mauro Campobasso Image
Il “Chiostro dell’ Arena” Arena del Sole 2000, 25/07/2000 Mauro Campobasso Image
Il “Chiostro dell’ Arena” Arena del Sole 2000, 26/07/2000 Cecilia Finotti
Quintet
Udine Jazz 2000, 26/06/2000, Mauro Campobasso Image
Jazz & Co 2000 (Como Jazz),30/06/2000 Mauro Campobasso Image
Jazz a Palazzo Cattaneo 2000, Cremona, 17/12/2000, Cecilia Finotti Trio
Vicenza Jazz 2000, 21/05/2000, New Conversations, Basilica, Alfredo Impullitti
Missa con Pierre Favre, Paolo Fresu, Tino Tracanna e Gianluigi Trovesi
Premio Iceberg 2001, 14/02/2001 Chiesa S.S. Annunziata, Bologna, Alfredo
Impullitti Missa, con Paolo Fresu, Tino Tracanna e Gianluigi Trovesi
Metastasio Jazz 2005, 06/02/2005, Mauro Campobasso e Mauro Manzoni, Punto Zero
3, Chaplin in Jazz, produzione Metastasio Jazz
Crossroads 2005, Donne in Jazz, 11/03/2005 Cecilia Finotti Group, featuring
Marco Tamburini
Tirana Jazz 2005, 8/06/2005 Mauro Campobasso e Mauro Manzoni Punto Zero 3
Clusone Jazz 2005, Cividate Camuno, Anfiteatro romano, 10/07/2005 Mauro
Campobasso e Mauro Manzoni, Punto Zero 3
Valenza Jazz 2005, 11/11/2005, Mauro Campobasso e Mauro Manzoni, Punto Zero 3,
Chaplin in Jazz, produzione Metastasio Jazz
Salto nel Suono 2006, Nonantola, Mauro Campobasso e Mauro Manzoni, Punto Zero 2
Homage to Stanley Kubrick, concerto/conferenza in collaborazione con Stefano
Zenni (Allucinazioni sonore nel cinema di Stanley Kubrick).
Piacenza Jazz 2007, Chaplin in Jazz, M. Campobasso - M. Manzoni PuntoZero 3
Crossroads 2007, Cecilia Finotti Trio
Musiche nel Sinis 2007, 08/07/2007, San Salvatore di Cabras (Sardegna) con Enzo
Favata, Andrea Pisu e Riccardo Pittau
Mille e un Nuraghe Festival 2007 Enzo Favata e Mauro Campobasso in “Succu Suk”,
ricetta originale di Giovanni Fancello per musica e sapori
Casa del Jazz -Roma -Young Lions of Jazz -2007 -Cecilia Finotti Trio
Pescara Jazz - Società del Teatro di Pescara - Omaggio a Stanley Kubrick -
dicembre 2008
Mestre Jazz Groove Festival - Candiani - Omaggio a Stanley Kubrick - Febbraio
2009
Campi Bisenzio - Teatro Dante - Musiconcentus- Omaggio a Stanley Kubrick - MArzo
2009
Pescara - Pescara Jazz - Società dei teatri di Pescara, Campobasso & Manzoni,
Omaggio ad Alfred Hitchcock, 4, 02, 2011
Piacenza- Piacenza Jazz festival - Campobasso & Manzoni - Omaggio a Stanley
Kubrick - 17 03 2011
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