Come out to the fore in the mid-'80s, here's another character finished 'spessatamente' national-popular on the back burner. Singer, instrumentalist, producer, but also a journalist, radio and television host, entertainer, the Foggiano Eugenio Roberto Antonio Telesforo, aka Gege 'Telesforo, is a professional and eclectic thousand contours and many nuances.
Among its many activities is the music, the main objective. From Puglia
with fury, this ecletticissima personality was born, artistically, with Renzo Arbore, his countryman and mentor, who discovered her remarkable vocal talents and very hot, and the expertise in music, sympathy and skill, even in the face cameras.
Thanks to several television programs in the guise of 'accomplice' and co-author and presenter, including the major 'Those of the Night', great program 'night' of '85 with millions of plays and the subsequent 'DOC' and 'International DOC Club ', between 1987 and 1988, important national and international showcases for musicians (programs so on TV ... unfortunately no longer exist), in which the young Gegè able to assert itself at the general public, demonstrating a remarkable mastery in music.
lover of Jazz, Funk and Soul, Telesforo has been able, over the years, find their own research project, which has the 'scat' or I'improvvisazione with the voice, the central node.
dusting technique all but forgotten, we almost never implemented, the vocalist Foggiano initially gathered around if some of the musicians of the fusion, producing good concerts, where he enjoyed renewing old jazz standards, by virtue of arrangements are stunning and unsettling harmonics.
then managed to establish themselves overseas, often duetting with Jon Hendricks, with the legendary Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Dee Dee Bridgewater and many others.
In the U.S., thanks to the association with Ben Sidran (pianist, singer and refined music critic), Telesforo has found a sort of 'second homeland', working with the most prominent musicians, recording her albums in the studio by Prince and finding ways to export his undoubted class in Japan, where he collected a great success, with an impressive series of 'sold out' concerts. The recording career of
Telesforo is quite fed, with the first self-titled album published in 1990 (Gala Records label), followed by "Gege and the Boparazzi" (1993 Go for the Jazz), "Gege & the Mother Tongue" (1996), "Pure Funk Live" (released in '98 for the series of Il Manifesto), "Ben & his Buddies" (1998 again for Go Jazz), while in the new century, its production has been enriched with "We Could not Be Happier" in 2002, the so-called "OPOPOMOZ Blues" in 2003 with the participation of Dee Dee Bridgewater and Blacks by accident, "Groovin'on the swing of things - The best of" instead released three years later, in 2006, for the Groove Master Edition, which is the Telesforo Deus ex Machina.
His musical has been directed on the side of a Funk rather sharp and uncompromising, in which jazz and improvisational elements are welded to a strict and unerring rhythmic conception dominated by the 'Groove'.
Accompanying him in his productions, many talented musicians, including memory Dario Deidda, talented electric bassist (and bassist) and his brother Alfonso, the saxophonist improvised look.
In 2007 he published the CD "Love and Other Contradictions" album that features a new repertoire of original compositions from sound 'urban R & B', with lean arrangements that highlight the qualities of a devotee of the band and with the Groove 'innate passion for Jazz and Blues, three new arrangements of "Rule of Thumb" di J.Scofield in versione Jazz-Bossa , "Here but I’m Gone" di Curtis Mayfield , inclusa una versione coinvolgente di "Air Mail Special" , il classico di Benny Goodman tratto dal repertorio di Ella Fitzgerald .
Nel 2010 è invece uscita la sua ultima fatica dal titolo "So Cool" , lavoro si fa apprezzare un pezzo dopo l’altro per l’originalità delle composizioni che spazia ritmicamente dallo Swing al Be Bop , dal Latin Lazz al Funky Groove , dai testi in inglese firmati da Ben Sidran , con un suono inconfondibile , creato dall’impasto sonoro tra voce e sassofoni .
Sempre nel 2010 , il 'JazzIt Award 2010' è stato vinto da Telesforo , come migliore voce maschile , un riconoscimento/sondaggio ottenuto the degree of public jazz 's lovers, of enormous value, it' certifies and guarantees' of the best representatives, the excellence of the Jazz and the Italian Culture. Although it is now appreciated
, Gege 'Telesforo remains an unusual character, an artist' niche ', which is unlikely, outside the jazz circuit, is mentioned by the mainstream media, which is not given special' space 'nor the vision he had received in the past.
Just remember, required his presence in this blog. Followers et
Dear Visitors, then let the drag from listening to this amazing Groove!
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