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CARLOS MORENA with JOE FONDA & GEORGE SCHULLER
Carlos Morena - piano / Joe Fonda - bass / George Schuller - drums
CARLOS MORENA
Elegant and refined pianist, with a classical formation, involved in a long series of projects, regarding jazz, new music, tango, bossanova and rock. Along the years, he has developed a style that owes much to the European harmonic finesse and gets a big influence from the great modern jazz piano tradition, from Paul Bley to Clare Fischer, Ran Blake and John Taylor. Especially appreciated in Trio contests, where the subtle colours of his compositions and the free movements of his harmonies are more in evidence.
Collaborations
Along his career, Morena has played and recorded with such artists like Charlie Mariano, Bob Mintzer, Enrico Rava, Kenny Wheeler, David Liebman, Arild Andersen, John Abercrombie, Rick Margitza, Rich Perry, Bob Mover, Steve Slagle, Gary Smulyan, Ricky Ford, Donald Harrison, Thomas Chapin, Bill Pierce, Paul Jeffrey, John La Porta, Tom Varner, Michael Rabinowitz, Alan Skidmore, Julian Argüelles, Pablo Mainetti, Claudio Fasoli, Paolo Fresu, Flavio Boltro, Maurizio Giammarco, Pietro Tonolo, Roberto Rossi, Giancarlo Schiaffini,
Pietro Condorelli, Jimmy Owens, John Eckert, Perico Sambeat, Jorge Rossy, Jorge Pardo, Francois Theberge, Gerard Presencer, Dave Defries, MariaPia De Vito, Lina Sastri, Paolino Dalla Porta, Joe Fonda, Furio Di Castri, Ares Tavolazzi, Bill Crow, Roberto Gatto, Barry Altschul, Manu Roche, Jeff Hirshfield, Massimo Manzi, Aldo Romano, John Betsch.
JOE FONDA
Joe Fonda is a composer, bassist, recording artist, interdisciplinary performer, and producer.
An accomplished international Jazz artist, Fonda has performed with his own ensembles throughout the United States and Europe, and as a side man with Archie Shepp, Ken McIntyre, Lou Donaldson, Bill and Kenny Barron, Leo Smith, Perry Robinson, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, Mark Whitecage, Marion Brown, and Bill Dixon.
Fonda was the bassist with the renowned Anthony Braxton sextet, octet, tentet, from 1984 through 1999. Fonda also sat on the Board of Directors from 1994 to 1999, and was the President from 1997 to 1999 of the newly formed Tri-Centric Foundation http://www.wesleyan.edu/music/braxton/tricentric.html. He has also performed with the 38-piece Tri-Centric orchestra under the direction of Anthony Braxton, and was the bassist for the premiere performance of Anthony Braxton’s opera, "Shalla Fears for the Poor", performed at the John Jay Theater in New York, New York, October 1996.
GEORGE SCHULLER
(drums, composer, arranger, producer), a native of New York City, moved to Boston in 1967 where he was raised and educated, and later received a bachelor's degree in Jazz Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music in 1982. For the next twelve years, Schuller was a fixture on the Boston area jazz scene performing with Herb Pomeroy, Jaki Byard, Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Mick Goodrick, John Lockwood, Ran Blake, Billy Pierce, Bruce Gertz, John LaPorta and Hal Crook.
In 1984, he co-founded the twelve-piece ensemble Orange Then Blue which has recorded several acclaimed albums, including the most recent release:/Hold The Elevator:Live in Europe and Other Haunts on GM Recordings.
In 1995 Schuller appeared on Joe Lovano's critically acclaimed album /Rush Hour /with compositions and arrangements by Gunther Schuller. It was voted "Album of the Year" by Down Beat magazine. Schuller has also performed with Joe Lovano and Gunther Schuller at Jazz at Lincoln Center (with artistic director Wynton Marsalis), and in Linz, Austria during a week-long festival of Gunther Schuller's compositional works. In addition, Schuller has performed and/or recorded with many of today's leading musicians including Joe Wilder, Britt Woodman, Mose Allison, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lee Konitz, Nnenna Freelon, Danilo Perez, Joey Calderazzo, Kenny Werner, Bill DeArango, George Adams, Fred Hersch, Tom Varner, Mark Helias, Tony Malaby, Dave Douglas and The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra
Production:Rob Chalfen - robchalfen@hotmail.com