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Orazio Maugeri
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 Orazio
Maugeri is a Sicilian saxophonist.
He was born in Catania in 1964
and achieved the clarinet diploma at the Conservatory "Vincenzo Bellini" of
Palermo in 1984.
His career is very wide and interesting because he has played with many
Italian and strangers players and his activity as a saxophonist isn't only related
to jazz music but also to ethno music, art music and contemporary music.
In 1982 is the 1st Sax alto
in Reinhardt Jazz Studio of Palermo that was directed by
Claudio Lo
Cascio.
In 1983 he founded, together
with other Sicilian players, The Brass Group Big Band (actually called Orchestra
Jazz Siciliana)
From 1984 to
1986 he performed with Paolo Lepore,
Mel Lewis, Sam Rivers, Ernie Wilkins, Tony Vella,
Toshiko Akijoshi, Gil Evans and Bob Brookmeyer.
 In
1987 he played at the Umbria Jazz Festival
with the Latin Jazz Band "Guna Band" and in 1988
he collaborated with Carla Bley and Steve Swallow during the
"Festival Internazionale del Jazz" in Sanremo (Italy).
In 1989 (March) he started
touring with the "Orchestra Jazz Siciliana" in the Czech Republic where they
performed for the Czech Television, for the Italian Embassy, in the Praha Eden Hall,
in the Kum Kultury of Liberec and during the International Festival of Karlovy Vary.
In the same year he joined the first Italian performance of
Duke Ellington's "Queen's Suite" directed by Bob Wilber.
In May he cut the record "OJS play the music of Carla Bley"
with Carla Bley, Steve Swallow and Gary Valenti.
  From
July to November he was on tour with the Italian songwriter Francesco De Gregori
through Italy and Switzerland, after the tour 3 records were produced together
with a video called "De Gregori Live".
In the same year he also performed with Joan Baez during the festival
"Un Rublo per l'Armenia" in Modena.
In 1990 (January) he played
in Italian Jazz Clubs with the pianist Giuseppe Emmanuele's quartet
with whom he cut the record "Reflection in Jazz".
In June he began a tour with the Orchestra Jazz Siciliana with
Marlena Shaw, Vesta Williams, Denice Williams, Linda Stokes
and Jackie Bell as singers.
In December he took part to Tom Harrel's concert in Catania.
In the same year (October) he started teaching in the music school "Progetto
Suono" in Messina.
In 1992 (February) he joined
the first European Performance of the opera "Epitaph" by Charlie Mingus
directed by Gunther Schuller.
In April he played with the lyrical singer Gail Gilmore and the
trumpeter Jack Walrath.
In the October of the same year he recorded the album "Canzoni
d'amore" by Francesco De Gregori and performed during his summer
tour.
 In
1992 he performed with Nathalie Cole,
Giorgio Gaslini (music by Gaslini), Marco Betta, Giovanni Sollima,
Marco Tutino, Ludovico Einaudi, Lorenzo Ferrero, Carlo Galante
and Mario Modestini.
During the summer he played with Francesco De Gregori and recorded
the album and the video "Il Bandito e il Campione".
In 1993 he played, once more,
Francesco De Gregori's tour and recorded the album "Bootleg".
 Between
1993 and
1994 he performed with Romano Mussolini, Cinzia
Gizzi,
Tullio De
Piscopo, Manu Roche, Ettore Fioravanti,
Roberto Gatto,
Pietro Tomolo,
Gegè Telesforo,
Flavio Boltro,
Nicola Stilo,
Dario Deidda,
Salvatore Bonafede,
Mimmo Cafiero,
Giovanni
Mazzarino, Paolino Dalla Porta, Tommaso Lama,
Marco Tamburini,
Nicola Arigliano,
Renato Sellani,
Giorgia and many others.
In 1994 he played with Dusko
Gojcovich during the San Vito Lo Capo Jazz Festival and in November he
performed with the Orchestra Jazz Siciliana directed by Pete Rugolo.
In 1995 (January) he performed in
a trio composed by Gaetano Randazzo (piano) and Gabriella Costa (soprano)
playing Michael Nyman's music.
In April he gave some concerts with the Orchestra della RAI of
Rome directed by Bruno Canfora with music by George Gershwin and then with
the Orchestra di Musica Contemporanea (OMC) of Palermo performing music by
Gaetano Randazzo, Giovanni Sollima, Cesare Picco, Alberto
Giraldi, Carlo Galante, Igor Stravinsky (Ebony Concert) and
Leonard Bernstein (Prelude-Fugue and Riffs for Clarinet and Jazz Ensemble).
In July he accompanied the singer Michael Allen together
with Pietro Tonolo
during the Jazz Festival "Utopia '95"
in Vibo Valentia.
In October of 1995 he played
with the American composer/pianist Michael Torke, performing the prima
of the composition "Flint".
 In
January of 1996 performed with the singer
Laura Fygi,
Irio De Paula
and the Orchestra dell' Accademia Musicale di Palermo directed by Gaetano
Colajanni and then with the trumpeter Lester Bowie.
In February of the same year played with the suite "Porgy and Bess"
by George Gershwin with the OJS (arrangement by Gil Evans for Miles Davis)
directed by Gunther Schuller and with
Paolo Fresu
as trumpeter.
In July he joined the Carini's Jazz Festival with Vinum de Cupa
quartet and in August played in Sicily with the Palermo's OMC.
 In
1997 he performed with the OMC,
I sassofonisti del Mediterraneo, Vinum de Cupa,
Rosalba Bentivoglio
Trio, Maugeri-Bonafede Duo,
Cedar Walton
quartet, Diane Schurr, Toots Thielmans, Arturo Sandoval,
Micky Howard, Vincenzo Spampinato and many others.
In the summer of 1998 played
with Bob Mintzer, Bill Russo, Vinicio Capossela,
Lino Patruno,
Rachel Gould
and others.
In 1999 (January) he played
as solist in the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini of Catania
for Modest Mussorgsky's "Quadri di una esposizione" (orchestration
by Maurice Ravel) directed by Donato Renzetti. In February he toured
Belgium with the "Sassofonisti del Mediterraneo", and durino his staying
in Brusselles he palyed together with the drummer Bruno Castellucci.
In March performed with the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini
di Catania, George Bizet's "L'Arlesienne, suite n°1" (as
alto sax solo) Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" (soprano sax solo) directed
by Marc Soustrot.With the same orchestra he executed some George
Gershwin's pieces (as tenor sax solo) directed by Giuseppe Garbarino.
In the summer of 1999
he took part to many concerts with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana,
Arturo Sandoval, Michelle Hendricks,
Rossana
Casale, Cesare Picco,
Pietro Condorelli,
Taberna Mylaensis and with the OJS directed by Frank Foster
and Joseph Bowie.
In 2000 (January and February)
he took part to the performance of Nino Rota's ballet "La strada"
with the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini di Catania directed
by Marcello Rota.During the same year he accompanied many groups
and singers such as Joy Garrison, OJS, Bonanova (etno-pop),
Enrico Intra, Gianni Cavallaro, Joseph Bowie,
Gigi Cifarelli,
Lucio Dalla and others.
In 2001 he started his collaboration
with the FBI (dance-pop), and during the same year,together with Filippo Rizzo,
he founded the group named "Ain't Nothing…But Jazz" (cool-dance). In
april he toured Denmark with
Tony Cigna
(compser/drummer). During the summer he played with "Ain't Nothing…But
Jazz" and Massimo Melodia. From cool-dance to lounge-music and from blues
to etno-folk music.
In 2002 started touring Denmark
and Sicily with Luciano Maio Taberna Mylaensis), Trio Lounge, FBI,
Vincenzo Mancuso Group, Massimo Melodia,Giovanni
Mazzarino Quintet, Angelo Morabito & Angelo
Castellana (blues band) and Art Perry Enseble.
In 2003 (January) he
took part to "Philips Dubai Jazz Festival" with
Antonella
Consolo &
Giovanni
Mazzarino Ensemble (Giuseppe Vasapolli, George
Robert,
Fabrizio Bosso,
Marco
Tamburini, Roberto Rossi,
Stefano Senni,
Enzo Zirilli). In March he toured Hungary and Italy
with Vinum De Cupa Quintet/Quartet (Mauro
Schiavone,
Orazio Maugeri,
Bernardo Viviano,
Igor Ciotta
&
Giuseppe Urso)
and Silvia Droste Quintet. During the summer of the same year he played
with Loungeness, Vincenzo Mancuso Group, Laura Mollica,
Taberna Mylaensis, Romano Mussolini, Bonanova, Vincenzo
Palermo & Ana Flora, TrioQuasi, Loredana Spata,
Gianni Cavallaro, Toti Cannistraro, Marcello Pellitteri,
OpenJazzOrchestra.
During 2004 he performed together
with Laura Mollica, Vinum de Cupa, Affinita di Quarta, KillerLoop,
Loungeness,
Francesco
Buzzurro,
Gianluca Petrella,
Giovanni
Mazzarino,
Marco
Tamburini,
Fabrizio Bosso,
Sciàllaba Orchestra, Gianni Gebbia. In april he played in Giacomo
Puccini's Turandot at Massimo Bellini's Teather (Catania) directed by
Hubert Soudant. In June he performed with the "Orchestra del Teatro Vittorio
Emanuele di Messina" in the musical Il Gatto Con Gli Stivali by Marco Tutino.
In the summer of 2004 he performed
with
Mimmo Cafiero, Nello Toscano, Claudio
Cusmano, Kathleen & Art Perry Ensemble, Vinum De Cupa,
Dario Fisicaro, Loungeness, Affinità Di Quarta,
Francesco
Buzzurro,
Salvatore
Bonafede, TrioQuasi, BopCity,
Rosalba
Bentivoglio, Killer Loop. In september in Selinunte
he took part of the realization of the Musical "Boccadoro" the traveller
(international prima) by Massimo Sigillò Massara. In autumn he played
with
Marco Tamburini, Toti Cannistraro,
Igor Ciotta,
Enzo Carpentieri, Romano Mussolini, Tony e
Francesco Cigna, Laura Mollica and Giuseppe Greco, Lelio Giannetto,
Bonanova, Gianni Cavallaro, Affinità Di Quarta.
File Video:
- Viaggio
a New York con Mimmo Cafiero, Dino Rubino e Paul Jeffrey
Festival:
- Jazz Città '82 a Palermo
- 7° Messina Jazz Meeting
'84
- Umbria Jazz '87 a Perugia
- Festival Internazionale del Jazz '89
a Karlovy Vary (Cecoslovacchia)
- Sardegna in Jazz '89 a
Cagliari
- Agrigento Blues Festival '94
- Marsala – Sciacca Jazz Festival
- San Vito Jazz Festival '94
- Utopia Jazz Festival '95
a Vibo Valentia
- Partitico Blues and Jazz Festival '95
- Carini Jazz Festival '95
- Cefalù in Blue '98
- Carini Jazz Festival 2000
- Istituto di Cultura Italiano di Copenaghen
2001
- Castelbuono Jazz Festival 2001
- Istituto di Cultura Italiano di Copenaghen
2002
- Alcamo Blues Festival 2002
- Philips Dubai International Jazz Festival 2003
- Magyar Radio Budapest 2003
- Istituto di Cultura Italiano di Szeged 2003
- Istituto di Cultura Italiano di Budapest 2003
- Castelbuono Jazz Festival
2003
- 5° Edizione Sea Music Meeting
- Pantelleria 2003
- Catanzaro Jazz Fest
2003
- Suoni di Sicilia nel Mediterraneo
- Acireale Estate 2003
- SummerNight
2003 Amici della Musica - Palermo
- Jazz Vanguard 2003 - Palermo
- Rassegna di Musica Etnica Siciliana
- L’isola possibile – Sicilia 2003
- SummerNight
2004 Amici della Musica - Palermo
- Castelbuono Jazz Festival
2004
- Fivizzano Music World 7° Festival
Internazionale 2004
- SummerNight
2005 Amici della Musica – Palermo
- Scopello Jazz Festival 2006
- Fiemme Ski Jazz 2007
Attività didattica:
- Scuola di Musica Progetto Suono – Messina
- Scuola Popolare di Musica – Palermo
Discografia:
- Luca Lo Bianco - La Scomparsa Di Majorana – Silta Records
- Guido Politi – Bora – Pop Eyes
- AMSJ – Sicilian Jazz Collection 2007 – J.I.S. IT001-07
   Viaggiu
dulurusu (Scordato-Mancuso) - Orchestra Jazz Siciliana plays the music of Carla Bley – ECM
- Silence please (Giovanni Mazzarino) – Splasc(h)
- Musica leggera (Francesco De Gregori) – Sony Music
- Niente da capire (Francesco De Gregori) – Sony Music
- Catcher in the sky (Francesco De Gregori) – Sony Music
- Reflections in jazz (Giuseppe Emmanuele) – Splasc(h)
- Canzoni d'amore (Francesco De Gregori) – Sony Music
- Thinkin' Miles (Giovanni Mazzarino) – Splasc(h)
   Jazz
sicilian collection Vol. 1 – Splasc(h) - Jazz sicilian collection Vol. 3 – Splasc(h)
- Il bandito e il campione (Francesco De Gregori) – Sony Music
- Bootleg (Francesco De Gregori) - Sony Music
- Vinum de cupa (Urso-Schiavone) – Caligola
- Feeling' good (Joan Cartwright) – Modern Time
- Sicily (Vella-Milici-Maugeri) – Panastudio
- Insence (Caliò) – Panastudio
- Latin (o) touch (Tony Cigna) – Teatro del Sole
   Angels
(Letizia Tomasino) – Panastudio - Festival di Palermo (Marco Cordaro) – Panastudio
- Quello che mi piace (Letizia Tomasino) – VideoRAI
- Roots (Mandreucci-Vella) – ArteSuono
- Io, lui e il 2 di bastoni (Joe Rosato) – OIS Records
- Festa della Musica, Palermo '97 (Maugeri-Bonafede) – AdM
- Orchestra Musica Contemporanea di Palermo – OMC
- Il regno di murray (Salvo Taormina) – MCS Records
- Ricordi di cuore (Alex Rossardi) – MDS
   Curve
nella memoria (Francesco De Gregori) –Sony Music - Microclima (Mario Venuti) – Polydor
- Lampedusa (Mauro Schiavone) - Teatro del Sole
- Onde dell'Egeo (Giuseppe Cusumano-Sciàllaba Orchestra) - Teatro del Sole
- Arabian Jazz (Ruggero Mascellino) – Teatro del Sole
- Balarm (Djun Djun) – Magma
- Oh Lady Be Good (Marilia Vesco) - C.A.R.
- Big Band Story :
Claudio Lo Cascio and his Sicilia Jazz
Big Band (Claudio Lo Cascio) - CLC 2016
- BONANOVA (Bonanova) - Teatro del sole
- BANDAMENANO (Bandamenano) - bam
- Diane Schuur & Orchestra Jazz Siciliana (E.A.Teatro Massimo - Palermo)
- Since I Feel For You (Antonella Consolo)
- Affinità di Quarta (Paolo Rigano)
- Vincenzo Palermo - Tribal - Fala Brasil CD01
- La Vuci Mia (Laura Mollica & Giuseppe Greco)
- New Age Music & New Sounds Vol.146 - Out Of Here sampler - Edizioni NANS
146
- Tinturia – Nessuno è Perfetto - LUNAPRODUZIONI
- Umberto Porcaro & RollerCoaster – Burn the Day Away – KRCD 002
- Federica Foresta - Magico Palermo – UM CD003
- Loredana Spada – Jazz Vocal Lab – A.A.I.M.L. IT0001-06
- The Spell Trio – an Album of Progressive Jazz
- Luca Lo Bianco - La Scomparsa Di Majorana – Silta Records
- Guido Politi – Bora – Pop Eyes
- AMSJ – Sicilian Jazz Collection 2007 – J.I.S. IT001-07
Video:
- De Gregori live (Francesco De Gregori) – Edizioni Serraglio/EMI
- Il bandito e il campione (Francesco De Gregori) – Edizioni
Serraglio
IgOrace Blues (Paola Giaccone)
Contacts and Information:
Orazio Maugeri
Via Donatello, 18
90011 Bagheria (Palermo) ITALY
Phone: 091 963666
Mobile Phone: (+39) 333 2400274
e-mail: gerjmau@virgilio.it
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