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GABRIELE COEN
JEWISH EXPERIENCE
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Gabriele Coen
Pietro Lussu
Marco Loddo
Lutte berg,
Luca Caponi
soprano sax and clarinet
piano
double bass
guitar
drums and percussion
"Combining a deep knowledge and honest respect for
tradition with a brilliant sense of drama and imagination,
Gabriele
Coen is making some of the most exciting, imaginative New
Jewish Music out there today.
At the cutting edge yet firmly rooted in history, the band “
Jewish Experience” plays with passion, integrity and
impeccable musicianship".
John Zorn
GABRIELE COEN
Born in Rome in 1970, Gabriele Coen graduated in saxophone at the “Conservatorio
Morlacchi" in Perugia and specialized in "Jazz and contemporary derivations" at the "Siena
Jazz Association". MA graduated in Political Science at the “Università La Sapienza” in
Rome with a thesis on the “Jewish influence in the creation of Spanish modern identity”.
He deepened his musical studies with Roberto Mancini, Eugenio Colombo, Yvonne Fisher,
Gianni Oddi, Mario Raja, Pasquale Laino and attended several stages and workshops by
Dave Liebman, Steve Lacy, Kenny Wheeler, Siena Jazz with Paolo Fresu and Pietro
Tonolo, Ials with Gianni Oddi and Orchestra Romana with Bruno Tommaso, composition
studies with Giovanni Guaccero. Founder of Klezroym, Italian klezmer lead band,
performing over 300 concerts in Italy and abroad and publishing 4 albums that sold more
than 50.000 copies: “Klezroym” 1998, “Scenì” 2000, “Yankele nel Ghetto”, 2002
“Klezroym”, 2003. Writer, with Isotta Toso, of “Klezmer! Jewish music from the shtetl to
John Zorn”, first Italian essay on history of klezmer music, published by Castelvecchi Edt.
in 2000. Since 1996 teacher of klezmer music at the “Pitigliani-Italian Jewish Center”. In
2001 he founded the jazz quartet “Atlante Sonoro” a project that melts jazz language with
ethnic music, publishing the album “Duende” in 2004 and “Alhambra” in 2006. In 2006 He
founded “jewish experience”, a project that melts jazz language with jewish music,
publishing the album “Golem” in 2009 and “Awakening in 2010”.
From TZADIK RECORDS notes:
Gabriele Coen "Jewish Experience": Awakening (2010)
The composer/saxophonist Gabriele Coen is a household name on the Italian
jazz scene. He is the founder of the noted ensemble Klezroym and has
recorded two masterful CDs of Jewish music for Italian labels. For his
first Tzadik release he broadens both the scope of his music and his
ensemble to create his most exciting and ambitious presentation to date.
Full of energy,lyricism and improvisational excitement, Awakening is one
of the strongest Jewish jazz CDs we have ever released, and a wonderful
new addition to Radical Jewish Culture, now in its eighteenth year and
going strong thanks to creative and passionate musicians like Gabriele
Coen.