Nicola Conte
Nicola Conte - AFRICAN SPIRITS dj show
Pomigliano Jazz XXIII edizione
via Giosuè Carducci 7
Oct 19, 2018
10:30 PM GMT+2
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Dj, produttore e remixer di culto nella scena internazionale nu-jazz, Nicola Conte porta sul dancefloor le sonorità jazz e soul che contraddistinguono le sue produzioni, accanto agli aspetti più raffinati della club culture attuale. Una maniera di sentire il jazz strettamente legata alla musica della fine degli anni Cinquanta primi Sessanta, con riferimenti che vanno dalla tradizione afro americana fino alla bossa nova, tra grandi assoli, armonie sofisticate, ritmi latini e voci sognanti. “Jet sounds” è il suo primo album uscito nel 2000, lavoro che già si muoveva tra 60’s jazz, musica brasiliana, sonorità funk e psichedelica. Subito dopo porta avanti diverse tournée che lo fanno conoscere non solo in Europa ma anche in città come Tokyo, San Francisco, Mosca. E’ in questo periodo che Nicola Conte comincia a mettere insieme la propria band che comprende jazzisti sulla cresta dell’onda nel nostro paese, tra questi il trombonista Gianluca Petrella e il trombettista Fabrizio Bosso, è che offre la materia prima per album di qualità straordinaria come “Other Directions” (Blue Note 2004), “Rituals” (Schema 2008) e “Soul & Revolution” (Impulse 2011). Nel 2001 diventa produttore musicale con il primo album di Rosalia De Souza (Garota Moderna), a cui seguono una dozzina di altre produzioni. Parallelamente collabora con artisti internazionali come Rainer Truby, Greyboy, Fernanda Porto e Koop. Attraverso i suoi remixes Nicola Conte sviluppa la sua ricerca sui suoni ottenuta attraverso strumenti reali: il successo è stato quello di fare una musica che, avendo lo stesso impatto della musica elettronica, fosse suonata acusticamente con la finezza del jazz degli anni Sessanta.
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Nicola Conte Biography
Nicola Conte is a DJ and producer from Bari, Italy known for introducing an innovative style of acid jazz that incorporates bossa nova themes, melodies drawn from Italian film scores of the 1960's, easy listening themes, and ethnic Indian music.
Conte, a classically-trained musician, is mastermind of a collective of acid jazz revivalists, "The Fez collective" (and originally a member of the group Fez Combo), based in the Italian town of Bari, and the Schema label, their record label for promoting their distinctly Italian approach to acid jazz.
Conte's first album was Jet Sounds of 2000. The single "Bossa Per Due" gained international recognition and was an underground hit. It was used almost immediately for a prime-time commercial for Acura automobiles. The album was licensed for American distribution by Thievery Corporation's Eighteenth Street Lounge (ESL) label in the summer of 2001 as Bossa Per Due, and was slightly reconfigured version of the Italian Jet Sounds album. This was followed by the Jet Sounds Revisited remix album in late 2002. Two years later, Blue Note's French subsidiary released Conte's next album Other Directions.
Conte also produced albums by other artists such as Paolo Achenza Trio.
Read MoreConte, a classically-trained musician, is mastermind of a collective of acid jazz revivalists, "The Fez collective" (and originally a member of the group Fez Combo), based in the Italian town of Bari, and the Schema label, their record label for promoting their distinctly Italian approach to acid jazz.
Conte's first album was Jet Sounds of 2000. The single "Bossa Per Due" gained international recognition and was an underground hit. It was used almost immediately for a prime-time commercial for Acura automobiles. The album was licensed for American distribution by Thievery Corporation's Eighteenth Street Lounge (ESL) label in the summer of 2001 as Bossa Per Due, and was slightly reconfigured version of the Italian Jet Sounds album. This was followed by the Jet Sounds Revisited remix album in late 2002. Two years later, Blue Note's French subsidiary released Conte's next album Other Directions.
Conte also produced albums by other artists such as Paolo Achenza Trio.
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