This trio came together the first time in the village of Montepulciano Italy in November 2006, and then continued in Lodi, Bologna, and Rome. Two Italian musicians and one American were inspired by their playing that fall to organize a tour for the next fall that would take them across Europe, from Marseille, through Switzerland and Germany to Aurstria. Fabrizio had met Jack at the Irtijal Festival in Beirut Lebanon in April 2006, which created a friendship and curiosity as to what their music could be. Fabrizio suggested that a regular partner of his, Alberto, would be a superb choice for a trio. And so he was.... If
you are interested in a performance of this group in Europe in late
Oct.-Nov. 2007 contact jackwri444 at aol.com, fabrispe at tin.it or
An mp3 of this group can be found here: HERE Fabrizio Spera • composer/performer (drums, electronics) Since the end of the eighties Fabrizio Spera is active as musician and organizer in the field of experimental music with a special interest in free improvisation. He played and collaborated with, among others: Mike Cooper, Peter Kowald, Wolfgang Fuchs, Otomo Yoshihide, Jon Rose, Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn, Jean Marc Montera, Tom Cora, Elio Martusciello, Conrad Bauer, Tristan Honsinger, Werner Ludi, John Butcher, John Edwards, Ab Baars, Rhodri Davies, Marc Wastell, Lol Coxhill, Chris Cutler, Mario Schiano, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Guido Mazzon, Sebi Tramontana, Martin Tétreault, Michel Doneda, Jérome Noetinger, Burkhard Beins Saadet Turkoz, Hans Koch, Martin Schuetz, Larry Ochs, Lisle Ellis, Wadada Leo Smith. Some of his current groups are Ossatura; Blast with Dirk Bruinsma, Frank Crjins, Paed Conca; Viktoria Frey (H. Eisler songs) with Sabina Meyer, Lauro Rossi, Fabrizio Puglisi; Lingua Wolfgang Fuchs with Thomas Lehn, Trio with John Butcher and John Edwards, RARA ensemble; Di Terra, trio with Alberto Braida and Lisle Ellis. He played in festivals like: Controindicazioni (Rome, Italy), London Musician’s Collective (London, UK), Europa Jazz Festival (Noci, Italy), Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, Quebec), Angelica (Bologna, Italiy), Musique Action (Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France), Jazzhaus Festival (Cologne, Germany), Synthese (Bourges, France), Musique Innovatrices (Saint-Étienne, France), Humannoise Congress (Wiesbaden, Germany), Tampere Jazz Happenings (Tampere, Finland), Alternativa (Prague, Hungary), Fruits de Mhere (Mhere, France), Total Music Meeting (Berlin, Germany), Yokohama Jazz promenade (Yokohama, Japan), Nits de Musica (Barcelona, Spain), Ring Ring (Belgrade, Serbia), Mix 02 (Århus, Denmark), Densité (Fresnes en Woevre, France), November Music (Ghent, Belgium).
ALBERTO BRAIDA (pianist, composer) was born in 1966. Began his piano studies when he
was seven years old. He obtained a diploma at the Conservatory "G.
Nicolini" in Piacenza and attended jazz music seminars in Siena
from 1989 to 1991. Braida has collaborated and played with musicians and composers such as Wadada Leo Smith, Lisle Ellis, Peter Kowald, Paul Lovens, Wolfgang Fuchs, John Edwards, Wilbert De Joode, John Butcher, Gino Robair, Hans Koch, Giancarlo Locatelli, Ab Baars, Fabrizio Spera, George Cremaschi, Ig Henneman, John Hughes, Liz Albee, Fabio Martini, Edoardo Marraffa, Antonio Borghini, Gianfranco Tedeschi, Serge Baghdassarians, Sabina Mayer, Michael Thieke, Alessandro Bosetti, Jeff Arnal, Michael Griener, Alexander Frangheneim, Filippo Monico, Boris Baltschun, Astrid Weins, Massimo Falascone, Lars Scherzberg, Luca Venitucci and many other. He played in Berlin (Total Music
Meeting 2001 and Total Music Meeting 2004), Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne,
Oberhausen, Locarno, Milano ("Festival milanese della musica
d'improvvisazione" 2004 and 2005), Lodi ("ContemporaneaMente"
festival), Rome (Controindicazioni), London (Free Radicals at the
Red Rose), Music Unlimited Festival XIX (Wells Austria), San Francisco,
Olimpia College, Portland, New York (Improvised and otherwise Festival
2003), Boston, Baltimore, Bennington College and many other places. Discography
Over the past twenty-five years
Jack Wright has been a bold saxophonist, as well as an influential
musical personality. Either on tour or organizing the next one, he
has played in virtually every venue available to experimental improvised
music in the US. He toured in Europe extensively in the 1980's and
began again on a regular basis in 2000; in Europe, he is mostly
based in Paris. The Washington Post says, "In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king". And a German publication, Bad Alchemy, had this to say of his solo: "Wright does not make music, he embodies it, he transforms it with a naiveté of another order. It grows into a sound river, he is part of the diaphragm through which the heterogeneous whispers." Jack has over sixty partners around the US and in Europe with whom he plays on his travels and records. Some of his recent partners in Europe have been: Michel Doneda, soprano sax; Agnes Palier, vocalist; Olivier Toutlemond, percussion; Fabrizio Spera, drums; Alberto Braida, piano; Sebastien Cirotteau, trumpet; Marlene Jobstl, butoh dancer; Pascal Battus, table guitar; Jean-Philippe Gross, electronics; Sharif Sehnaoui, guitar; Christine Sehnaoui, alto sax; Stephane Rives, soprano sax; Jean-luc Guionnet, alto sax; David Chiesa, double bass; Jean Borde, double bass; Michael Griener percussion and Sabine Vogel flute of Berlin; Le Quan Ninh, percussion; Barre Philipps, double bass; and Phil Durrant, English laptop musician. His most recent tours have been with Fabrizio Spera and Alberto Braida in Italy; with Agnes Palier and Olivier Toutlemond in France-Switzerland-Germany; a solo tour in Scandinavia; with Michael Johnsen, electronicist, in France, Holland, Belgium, etc., joined by Sebastien Cirotteau; with Michel Doneda and NYC percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (From Between Trio) in Japan, France, and the US; with Wade Matthews, bass cl, flute, electronics, in the US; with Carol Genetti, and Jon Mueller (NomTom trio), in the US; Nate Wooley, trumpet, of NYC in Europe; cellist Bob Marsh of the Bay area; Michael Griener and Sabine Vogel of Berlin; Reuben Radding, NYC bassist; Phil Durrant, in the US; and with trumpet player Tom Djll from Oakland and soprano sax player Bhob Rainey on the West Coast. He has recorded over 35 albums since 1982. For a full bio, writings, sound files and list of recordings visit his website: www.springgardenmusic.com feature article in Signal to Noise Magazine: www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2003/04apr_text.html 2001 interview with John Berndt
www.redroom.org/documentation/wright.html and also available in French
on his website, as published in Improjazz Jan/Feb. 2004)
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