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Carla Marciano
alto and sopranino saxophones, composition
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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.
"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 2006 Carla Marciano introduced
this cd in USA, performing, with her quartet, at three famous jazz festivals: the
HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL 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 Theatre on Broadway in New York.
 "Change
Of Mood" is the title of her third cd, recently 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 attracted attention from some of the major jazz magazines
and websites, such as: JAZZ TIMES, CADENCE MAGAZINE, MUSICA JAZZ, JAZZ IT, JAZZ
MAGAZINE, JAZZ REVIEW, JAZZ REVIEW, ALL ABOUT JAZZ, JAZZ MONTHLY, SUONO, JAZZITALIA,
MUSIC BOOM, KATAWEB/MUSICA, SLAGWERKKRANT, etc.. and her cds have received extremely
positive reviews.
 Moreover
her cds have been introduced in some national and international radio and TV programmes
(RAI 1, RADIO 1 RAI, RADIO 3 RAI, SAT 2000,
CONTO TV (Italy) - RTSI (Switzerland) - WRTC, WWUH, WPKN, WNUA, KLCC, WICN (USA)
- SMOTH FM (UK) - BAYERN 2 RADIO (D), etc.)
The cd "A Strange Day" has been included in the prestigious American
CADENCE MAGAZINE's TOP TEN CDs' list for 2006.
Already included in the TOP TEN of the "Best Italian New Talent" category
of the TOP JAZZ 2005, Carla Marciano
is in the fourth position in the same category of TOP JAZZ
2007, the critics' poll organized by the MUSICA JAZZ Italian magazine.
Carla Marciano has performed her music projects, with her quartet, in numerous
and 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) - EUROPEAN JAZZ EXPO' '06,
Cagliari - INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL of Montenegrin National Theatre '05, Podgorica
(MONTENEGRO) - VICENZA JAZZ '04 - CLUSONE JAZZ FESTIVAL '05 - BOLZANO "JAZZ & OTHER"
'04 - ISEO JAZZ '06 - VILLA CELIMONTANA JAZZ FESTIVAL '06 and '08, Roma - OVER JAZZ
E CONTAMINAZIONI '04 Milano - PINOCCHIO JAZZ LIVE '07, Firenze - PORDENONE JAZZ
KOINE' '07 - LA PALMA/"JAZZITA' '06, Roma - BEAT ONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL '03, Bitonto
- Eddie Lang JAZZ FESTIVAL '04, Monteroduni - LA SOSTA/JAZZMIN '06, Villa S.Giovanni
(RC) - ESPERANTO JAZZ FESTIVAL '04 Roma - DONNE IN JAZZ '04 - '05 (International
Adkins Chiti Women in Music Foundation), Frascati - BLUE BRASS '06 (The Brass Group),
Palermo - LUCCA JAZZ DONNA '05 and '08 - OKTOBER JAZZ '06, Benevento - OVER JAZZ
'03, Salerno - INCONTRI INTERNAZIONALI DELLA MUSICA '07, Salerno - PAESAGGI SONORI
'07,(MT) - TEATRO COMUNALE REGINA MARGHERITA '07, Caltanissetta - POMIGLIANO JAZZ
FESTIVAL '07 - ATELIER MUSICALE '07 (with Cerri-Intra Doppio Trio), Milano - CASA
DEL JAZZ '08, Roma - ALEXANDERPLATZ '08, Roma - PIACENZA JAZZ FEST '08 - TOSCANA
JAZZ FESTIVAL '08 -
Nick La Rocca JAZZ FESTIVAL '08 - FANO JAZZ BY THE SEA '09 - FESTIVAL
DELLE SERRE '09 (CS) - and others...
She has occasionally played with: Enrico Intra,
Franco Cerri,
Victor Bailey,
Hiram Bullock,
Bill Evans
(sax), Ettore Fioravanti, Ernst Reijseger, Wolfgang Haffner,
Carl Anderson, Dario Deidda, John B.Arnold, Tony Arco,
Karl Potter, Giovanni Amato,
Antonio Onorato
and many 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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Last Modified Date: 17/10/2009
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