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Maurizio Marrani Quartet
“ Jazz: a culture crossroads”
Maurizio Marrani’s Quartet offers an original program made up of his own pieces of
music and of rearranged standard pieces influenced by different music styles
similar to jazz. The whole program reflects an open vision of Afro-American music
and is able to contain different materials and kinds of music coming from various
music worlds: the Sixties’ Soul music, Jazz-Rock fusion, Bossanova, Movie music
and Blues. A relevant role is played by the improvisation and by the musicians
interplay which make every single concert unique and unpredictable.
The quartet, who has just released his first CD Azur Planet for the music label
Pagina3, consists of the pianist Maurizio Marrani, the guitarist Angelo Lazzeri, the
bassist Graziano Brufani and the drummer Nicola Polidori.
Maurizio Marrani. Graduated in classical and jazz piano at Morlacchi
Conservatory. He has always devoted himself to the jazz composition and
improvisation. During his career he had the chance to perform as solo pianist playing
his own pieces or collaborating with other musicians in some of the most important
jazz festivals Umbria Jazz” 1990 , “Jazz Fest” 1992-94, ,”Metronome” 1998 ,
“Young in Town” 2006 ecc.. “Siena Jazz” 2008 , “Gubbio Noborders” 2010,
“Ciampino Jazz Festival” 2012, “Viterbo Jazzup” 2013 . He also had the opportunity
of working and playing with many musicians like Massimo Manzi, Pierre Drevet,
Alberto Borsari, Manu Roche, Daniele Di Gregorio, Jo Ann Pickens, Fabio
Zeppetella.
Angelo Lazzeri. Guitarist, composer, arranger. He has played with musicians like
Joe Chambers, Dave Liebman, Manhu Roche, David Linx, Paolo Fresu, Pietro
Tonolo, Roberto Gatto, Fabrizio Sferra, Gabriele Mirabassi, Bebo Ferra. He has been
working for years as a musician and an arranger with David Riondino. He is
currently working in different fields like Big Band, Perugia Jazz Orchestra directed
by Mario Raja and Barga Jazz Orchestra directed by Bruno Tommaso). He is playing
in smaller music bands of centre Italy and collaborates with appreciated musicians
like Rossano Emili, Massimo Morganti, Stefano Paolini, Enrico Bracco and others).
He performed in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Japan and he took part
in festivals like Umbria Jazz, Time in Jazz, Ancona Jazz Festival, Potsdamer
Jazzfest. He also got involved in theatre music projects and collaborated with
directors like Stefano Alleva, Maurizio Schmidt and Vincenzo Pirrotta. He performed
in Venice Biennale, Gibellina Orestiadi and in several theatres in Rome. He teaches
guitar at Perugia and La Spezia Conservatory and is a professor in Nuoro University
jazz winter courses.
Graziano Brufani. Electric bass player graduated in Morlacchi Conservatory in
Perugia. He has got experience in Chamber Orchestra (Solisti di Perugia) and
Symphony Orchestra. (Orchestra Sinfonica di Perugia e dell’Umbria), and is
currently working with different pop and jazz musicians such as Mauro Negri, Mauro
Ottolini, Michele Ascolese, Ellade Bandini, Stefano Zavattoni, Claudio Mastracci,
Roberto Pistolesi, and many more.
Nicola Polidori. He started studying drums at Marco Pellegrini’s STIX music school
and improved his skills with the music teachers Claudio Mastracci , Enzo Restuccia
and Maurizio Dei Lazzaretti. He also attended jazz courses and workshops, several
seminars organized by Christian Meyer, Dave Weckl, Agostino Marangolo, Gavin
Harrison and Alfredo Golino. He is quite active both in recording and in live pop
concerts. He has joined Davide de Gregorio’s band since 2006 and he has won the
national prize Musicultura.
In February 2004 he recorded the whole soundtrack of the film A Ogni volta che te
ne vai by Fabio de Luigi and took part in the recording of some music for the
television series "Un medico in famiglia". He has been collaborating with Gabin
since 2012 and playing in some concerts in Europe. Since 2013 he has been playing
with the Reseau, an electro-swing group with whom he has recorded some pieces of
music and has been playing with important Italian and International musicians like
Fabrizio Bosso, Alfonso Deidda, Filippo Clary, Daniele Tittarelli, Claudio Corvini.
He regularly plays with Outside band in many clubs and pubs all around Italy. He
works with different recording studios and records soundtracks for TV channels Rai,
Mediaset and for cinema as well. He teaches at STIX music school in Perugia.