Gianluca’s Biography
Gianluca Vigliar was born in Rome in 1979, he started his music studies with piano when he was eight years old, but after he attended a performance by the famous Tony Scott he developed a passion for Jazz music and decided to approach his studies towards the tenor saxophone with Paolo Farinelli .
Successively he took part at the Conservatory Morlacchi in Perugia attending the saxophone’s class with Mario Raya, he graduated in 2007. Simultaneously with the Conservatory’s studies he started the activity of sideman and arranger for many national reggae and pop bands participating to many national and international Festivals: In 2004 won together with Andrea Rivera the first award at the Festival del Teatro-Canzone Giorgio Gaber inViareggio, in 2006 the award for the event “Primo Maggio tutto l’anno” playing at the Concerto del primo Maggio(National Labor day) with the band Wogiagia like arranger and compeser and saxophonist.
In April 2010 he graduated at the second level at the Conservatorio di S.Cecilia, Jazz degree with highest honours. In the same year he took part in the ensamble of the director of the Jazz Departement of the Accademy of S.Cecilia of Rome, also with Paolo Damiani in many festivals (Siena Jazz ,Roccella Jazz Festival ). During the new emerging bands contest of Festival Jazz in Fara Sabina “Fara in Jazz” in 2011 won the first award as the best solo artist. The year after with his project of trio pianoless “Vigliar G Trio” participated at the “Italian Jazz Days in New York” coordinated by the Director of the Lincoln Center Antonio Ciacca, performing during one of his shows with the special guest Fabio Zeppetella. Also during the last few years he took part in many BigBands as first tenor player with the Orchestra Jazz of Villa Celimontana directed by M.Corvini during Festival di Villa Celimontana in 2010 and 2011. Recently is part of the O.J.P (jazz orchestra Parthenopea)of Pino Jodice who performed together with Paolo Fresu and Raed Khoshaba in 2016, and since two years he is also part of another project of the famous piano composer Pino Jodice,“Pino Jodice Quintet “, they will perform at the “ Casa del Jazz “ on June 11th 2016 . His discography : Fragia, Plastic Estrogenus, Eclipse ( the last two with the label Am.a Records )
Gianluca Vigliar played with: Greg Hutchinson , Javier Girotto , Fernando Huergo , Mark Shlansky, Israel Varela ,Mario Corvini , Pino Jodice , Mark White , Paolo Fresu ,Raed Khoshaba , Pietro Jodice , Giovanni Tommaso ,Fabio Zeppetella , Salvatore Buonafede , Scott Deogburn ,Sandro Deidda , Alexandre Cerdà Belda , Stefano di Battista , Daniele Tittarelli , Elvio Ghigliordini ,Antonio Ciacca , B. Ferra , Francesco Puglisi, Dino Govoni, Marco Valeri , Ron Savage , Giorgio Rosciglione , Valerio Vigliar , Claudio Filippini , Domenico Sanna , Pietro Ciancaglini , Carlo Conti ,Federica Michisanti, Giovanni Imparato , Jacopo Ferrazza.
Gianluca Vigliar Quartet
“Domenico Sanna Biography”
Nasce il 4 settembre 84 a Gaeta.
All’età di 6 anni inizia i primi studi di pianoforte e ha la possibilita di stare a contatto con la musica ed il teatro grazie alla sua numerosa famiglia.
Trasferitosi a Roma nel 2003 inizia gli studi di pianoforte jazz presso l’Università della Musica; Dopo un anno viene invitato al prestigioso Blue Note di Milano con il gruppo di Fabio Mariani.
Riceve una borsa di studio dalla “Global Music Foundation 2005 frequenta il “Seminar of all musics” in Certaldo (FI), partecipa sempre da borsista alla seconda edizione di ROMA JAZZ COOL e alle tre edizioni del ”WE LOVE JAZZ” nella Tuscia dove nell’anno 2007 vince il premio di “Miglior Pianista” nel concorso Jimmy Woody tenutosi a Soriano del Cimino (VT), nella giuria George Cables, Bobby Dhuram, Benny Golson, Jimmi Cobb, Joey de Francesco. Nel frattempo entra a contatto e si appassiona alla scena romana del jazz.
Nel 2007 si diploma presso l’università della Musica col massimo dei voti.
Nel 2008 entra a far parte dell’orchestra di Mario Raja e del gruppo del cantautore Piji e registra col sassofonista Marco Ferri per l’etichetta “NUCCIA production”.
Sempre nel 2008 registra per l’etichetta “Tuscia in Jazz” un disco con il sassofonista Rick Margitza, inoltre nello stesso anno vince il premio “Luca Flores” come miglior solista tenutosi a Barga e vince un altro premio come “miglior talento emergente” dalla “Armonia Foundation of Arts”.
Nel 2009 registra “Piu Sole”, il nuovo disco di Nicky Nicolai e Stefano di Battista per la “Universal” e “Too High” di Marco Acquarelli per la “LHOBO”.
Nel 2010 pubblica il suo primo disco da leader: “Too Marvelous For Words”, per la “TOSKY RECORDS”, con Giorgio Rosciglione e Marco Valeri, e con lo stesso trio registra il disco “One Night” con Dave Liebman per la “Tuscia in Jazz”.
“Ameen Saleem Biography”
Bassist, Ameen Saleem, was born July 2, 1979, and raised in Washington, DC. He now resides in Brooklyn, New York.”I’m a chill, laid back person until I get a bass in my hand… then it’s on. Love, love, love music and anything art related. People often ask what kind of music do I play. I respond, “I play bass.” All genres are fair game. If I don’t know the genre, I’ll improvise, listen, and find my way into the groove.”He goes on to say, “Born and raised in DC. Proud of that. I love my city. But I also love to travel. You never know where I’ll be. I go a little bit of everywhere through music. The only way to know me really is to meet me or some of my close friends. I have many. I’m a people person. No enemies that I know of.”Ameen graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in 1997. He went on to attend North Carolina Central University from 1997-2001. He majored in Music Performance, earning a Bachelor’s Degree. He performed in the Jazz Ensemble and was Musical Director of the Choir Ball. From 2002-2005, Ameen attended Cuny Queens College in Flushing, New York, earning a Master’s Degree, majoring in Music Performance.Recently, Ameen Saleem has been touring extensively across the US, Europe and Japan with The Roy Hargrove Quintet and the Roy Hargrove Big Band.
Marco’s Biography
Marco Valeri is one of the most prominent drummers in Italy. Born in Rome, in 1978,his father is a drummer and this gave him the opportunity to get very close to music and to drums when he was still a kid. Love for jazz music came quite early and he soon had the chance to play with renowned artists such as George Garzone, Steve Grossman, Benny Golson, Dave Liebman, Eddie Henderson, Rick Margitza, Scott Hamilton, Eddie Gomez, developing in terms of both experience and deep knowledge of jazz tradition. He has been paying in some of the most prestigious festivals worldwide ,he played in Spain, Portugall , Germany, France , Great Britain, Holland ,Turkey, USA, Japan, Israel, Russia and many others. He is an active member of Rosario Giuliani quartet ,Flavio Boltro quintet, Nicola Conte Jazz Combo, Sarah Mckenzie 4et, Giovanni Amato Organ 4et and many other..and he is currently carrying on is own quartet together with Daniele Tittarelli (sax), Francesco Lento (trumpet) and Pietro Ciancaglini (bassist). He has taken part to many recording sessions like: – Eddie Gomez Trio w Dado Moroni & Marco Valeri-2011 TJR / Pietro Lussu Trio- Northern Lights- 2011 -Albòre Recors- Japan / Daniele Tittarelli-Jungle Trane-“2001 ,Wind Sound Records / Daniele Tittarelli-No Hay Banda- 2007 Wide Sound Records / Atti & Basentini 5et- The Best things for you- “2007-Red Records / Marco Acquarelli 4et &5et-They say it’s spring- 2012 ,Tosky Records / Dave Liebman Quartet Live in Italy- 2011 TJR / Domenico Sanna Trio-Too Marvellous for words-2010 Tosky Records.Alice Ricciardi ‘’Optics’’ Inner Circle Music, Fresh Fish 5et ‘’Prestazione’’ Parco Della Musica, Sarah Mckenzie ‘’We could be lovers’’ Impulse, Chiara Civello ‘’Canzoni’’ Sony-Universal, Gaetano Partipilo ‘’Song from the 60’s’’ Schema Records, and more..
Fragia
“FraGia” is a pianoless band led by Gianluca Vigliar, saxofonist player and composer. Before the Quartet, he played with “Vigliar G TriO” (G.Luca Vigliar Sax, Bass L.Fattorini, E.Morello drums) and he participated in many Festivals such as “ Italian Jazz Festival “ in 2011, Fara Jazz Festival 2011\12 and many more .
This experience It’s been very important for conceiving what today the writing It has to be and his music would never be the same without this amazing band: two young talents, Francesco Fratini on trumpet, and Luca Fattorini on Dbass and MarcoValeri, one of the most outstanding drummer in Italy.
Gianluca’s music tends to create a sort of narration and has the musical objective of composing a synergy and equality between the instruments without having only an element prevailing above each one. An intense interplay and a constant tendency to create a different and variable situations, therefore various and improvised subjects which give to the solo artists the possibility to interchange between them and not only on the same structures, so that the music becomes more expendable to the audience. His music is characterized by a very warm and dark timbre of the instruments that give a round and soft sound . The two winds section’s line links to the bass one and produce a counterpoint that together with the rhythmic choice creates a beating on the persistent complex and It is very intriguing in the manner of music research. In October 2017 their first album “FraGia” was released.
Francesco Fratini
Born in Rome in 1990. He began studying the instrument at the age of eight at the Testaccio popular music school. He continued his classical studies at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome with the masters Salvatore Catania and Franco Vasselli. He attended the summer jazz seminars organized by the Siena Jazz Foundation in the 2007 and 2008 editions studying with Giampaolo Casati, Pietro Tonolo, Stefano Zenni, Marco Tamburini and Enrico Rava. In 2010, at the Hague Conservatory, he represented Italy at the IASJ meeting of jazz schools from around the world. In 2009 he was called by Enrico Rava to be part of his ensemble together with Daniele Tittarelli, Gianluca Petrella, Dan Kinzelman and Stefano Senni. In July 2009 he attended the Veneto Jazz summer seminars in Bassano del Grappa, chaired by the teachers of the “New School For Jazz and Contemporary Music” in New York. At the end of the seminars he was the winner of one of the two scholarships for the New School. In 2010 he attended the International Jazz Master promoted and organized by the Siena Jazz Foundation, where he had the opportunity to study with Eddie Henderson, Avishai Cohen, Ralph Alessi, Danilo Perez, Kenny Werner, Reuben Rogers. In September 2010 he moved to New York where he attended, thanks to a four-year scholarship, the courses of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Over the course of five years in New York he had the opportunity to study under the guidance of teachers of the caliber of Reggie Workman, George Cables, Aaron Goldberg, Ambrose Akimounsire, Avishai Cohen, Doug Weiss. He also performed in various clubs and festivals in New York, alongside musicians such as Chad Lefickofitz Brown, Alexander Claffy, Matt Chalk, Kyle Poole and Daniel Dor. In December 2014 he graduated from the New School, obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz and Contemporary Music. In January 2015 he returned to Rome to resume an intense concert activity and graduate in Jazz Trumpet with Paolo Damiani and Mike Applebaum. For two years now he has been a permanent member of the Umbria Jazz Orchestra, of the ONJGT (Orchestra Nazionale Jazz Giovani Talenti). He is the leader of two projects in his name: the Francesco Fratini Quartet, with which he recorded The Best of All possible Worlds for Jando Music, and the Francesco Fratini Trio, with which he recorded Homemade and Queen Size for the New York label La Reserve. He teaches at the Saint Louis College in Rome.
Luca Fattorini
LUCA FATTORINI, born in Rome on January 1988 , began studying bass at age 12. He has had several italian and international teachers who have taught him along the way as Bruno Tommaso, Larry Grenadier, Ben Street, Ameen Saleem, Ron Carter ecc. He has played and recorded with many great musicians including Gregory Hutchinson, Bill Smith, Roberto Gatto, Rick Margitza, David Kikosky, Sheila Jordan, Rosario Giuliani, Enrico Pieranunzi, Gary Thomas, Nir Felder, Logan Richardson, George Garzone, Alison Crocket, Alice Ricciardi, Zara McFarlane ecc. He has participated in many italian and international festivals as: Umbria Jazz, Roma Jazz Festival, Taormina Jazz, Atina Jazz, Casa del Jazz, Peperoncino Jazz, Blue Note (Tokyo), Ronnie Scott (London), Worm Jazz & Joy Festival (Germany), Italian Jazz Days (New York City) ecc.
Marco Valeri
Marco Valeri is one of the most prominent drummers in Italy. Born in Rome, in 1978,his father is a drummer and this gave him the opportunity to get very close to music and to drums when he was still a kid. Love for jazz music came quite early and he soon had the chance to play with renowned artists such as George Garzone, Steve Grossman, Benny Golson, Dave Liebman, Eddie Henderson, Rick Margitza, Scott Hamilton, Eddie Gomez, developing in terms of both experience and deep knowledge of jazz tradition. He has been paying in some of the most prestigious festivals worldwide ,he played in Spain, Portugall , Germany, France , Great Britain, Holland ,Turkey, USA, Japan, Israel, Russia and many others. He is an active member of Rosario Giuliani quartet ,Flavio Boltro quintet, Nicola Conte Jazz Combo, Sarah Mckenzie 4et, Giovanni Amato Organ 4et and many other..and he is currently carrying on is own quartet together with Daniele Tittarelli (sax), Francesco Lento (trumpet) and Pietro Ciancaglini (bassist). He has taken part to many recording sessions like: – Eddie Gomez Trio w Dado Moroni & Marco Valeri-2011 TJR / Pietro Lussu Trio- Northern Lights- 2011 -Albòre Recors- Japan / Daniele Tittarelli-Jungle Trane-“2001 ,Wind Sound Records / Daniele Tittarelli-No Hay Banda- 2007 Wide Sound Records / Atti & Basentini 5et- The Best things for you- “2007-Red Records / Marco Acquarelli 4et &5et-They say it’s spring- 2012 ,Tosky Records / Dave Liebman Quartet Live in Italy- 2011 TJR / Domenico Sanna Trio-Too Marvellous for words-2010 Tosky Records.Alice Ricciardi ‘’Optics’’ Inner Circle Music, Fresh Fish 5et ‘’Prestazione’’ Parco Della Musica, Sarah Mckenzie ‘’We could be lovers’’ Impulse, Chiara Civello ‘’Canzoni’’ Sony-Universal, Gaetano Partipilo ‘’Song from the 60’s’’ Schema Records, and more..
Ha suonato con\ He played with :
Greg Hutchinson , Javier Girotto , Fernando Huergo , Mark Shlansky, Israel Varela ,Mario Corvini , Pino Jodice , Mark White , Paolo Fresu , B. Ferra , Raed Khoshaba , Pietro Jodice , Giovanni Tommaso ,Fabio Zeppetella , Paolo Damiani , Salvatore Buonafede , Scott Deogburn ,Sandro Deidda , Alexandre Cerdà Belda , Paolo Farinelli , Erico Morello, Stefano di Battista , Daniele Tittarelli , Elvio Ghigliordini , Antonio Ciacca, Francesco Puglisi, Dino Govoni, Marco Valeri , Luca Fattorini, Ron Savage , Giorgio Rosciglione , Valerio Vigliar , Claudio Filippini , Domenico Sanna , Pietro Ciancaglini , Francesco Poeti , Vincenzo Florio , David Boato , Paolo Recchia , Adam Pache , Stefano Nunzi , Carlo Conti , Andrea Molinari , Giovanni Imparato , Jacopo Ferrazza , Valerio Vantaggio , Enzo Amazio , Roberto Schiano, Adolfo Scotto Di Luzio , Giuliana Soscia , Francesco Ponticelli .
Biografia di Gianluca Vigliar
Gianluca Vigliar nasce a Roma nel 1979 e a 8 anni inizia gli studi musicali con il pianoforte. L’avvicinamento al jazz avviene subito dopo aver assistito ad una performance del famoso Tony Scott e motivo per cui si appassionerà al jazz e deciderà di indirizzarsi verso lo studio del sax tenore con il sassofonista P. Farinelli.
Successivamente si iscrive al Conservatorio Morlacchi di Perugia alla classe di sassofono di M. Raya diplomandosi nel settembre del 2007.
Contemporaneamente allo studio del conservatorio inizia l’ attività di turnista e arrangiatore in vari gruppi della scena nazionale del reggae e del pop partecipando a festival nazionali ed europei : nel 2004 vince insieme ad Andrea Rivera il primo premio al Festival del Teatro-Canzone Giorgio Gaber a Viareggio e nel 2006 il premio della manifestazione indetta dalla org. “Primo Maggio tutto l’anno” aprendo il concerto del primo maggio con i Wogiagia come solista e arrangiatore.
Nell’ aprile del 2010 si laurea al Conservatorio di S.Cecilia al biennio di secondo livello in jazz con il massimo dei voti e nello stesso anno si inserisce nell’ensamble di Paolo Damiani, direttore del dipartimento di Jazz del Conservatorio di Roma S.Cecilia, partecipando a diversi festival (come Siena Jazz ,Roccella Jazz Festival ).
Nel concorso per gruppi emergenti indetto dal Festival jazz di Fara Sabina “Fara in Jazz” del 2011 si aggiudica il primo premio come miglior solista. L’anno successivo con il suo progetto di trio pianoless
”Vigliar G Trio” partecipa alla rassegna “Italian Jazz Days a New York” coordinata dal direttore del Lincoln Center Antonio Ciacca, esibendosi in una delle due serate con lo special guest Fabio Zeppetella.
Negli ultimi anni ha partecipato a diverse BigBand come primo tenore : con l’Orchestra Jazz di Villa Celimontana diretta da M.Corvini durante il Festival di Villa Celimontana del 2010 e 2011 e nella O.J.P di P.Jodice con cui nell’ ultimo anno si e’ esibito insieme a Paolo Fresu e Raed Khoshaba (2016).
Conduce il suo progetto di pianoless “FraGia” (con Francesco Fratini alla tromba, al contrabbbaso Luca Fattorini e Marco Valeri alla batteria) .All’attivo un primo disco uscito il 5 ottobre 2017,e per il prossimo giugno 2019 usciranno con il loro secondo disco ma in quintetto con il vibrafonista Andrea Biondi.
Negli ultimi anni partecipa come solista a diversi progetti :
il PJQuintet(“Pino Jodice Quintet”)con qui si esibito alla “ Casa del Jazz “ l’ 11 giugno 2016.
il “Trioness” di Federica Michisanti, con cui ha presentato il suo primo disco “Isk” a gennaio del 2017 alla “Casa del Jazz“.
Mambo Puente Latino Orquesta diretta da E.Ghigliordini.
Dasp ,quartetto del chitarrista M.Giuliani.
FRAGIA :
G.Vigliar sax
F.Fratini Trumpet
L.Fattorini Dbass
M.Valeri Drums
“Il gruppo e la sua storia”
Il “FraGia Quartet” e’ una formazione pianoless che nasce da un esperienza maturata dal sassofonista romano in questi ultimi anni con il suo “ Vigliar G Trio “, con il quale ha ricevuto diversi premi fino a suonare a New York durante l’Italian Jazz Festival nel 2011 .
Esperienza che è servita a concepire quella che oggi è la scrittura o meglio l’intelaiatura articolata delle melodie e dei paesaggi sonori attraversati dall’attuale band. Il quartetto è guidato da Gianluca Vigliar, sassofonista e compositore poliedrico, che ha riunito due giovani talenti come il trombettista Francesco Fratini e il contrabbassista Luca Fattorini uno straordinario batterista come Marco Valeri .
La Musica del Fragia Quartet tende a creare una sorta di narrazione e ha l obiettivo musicale di far in modo di creare una sinergia e una parita tra gli strumenti senza che ci sia un elemento prevalente . Un intenso interplay ed una costante tendenza a creare situazioni diverse e mutevoli, quindi molteplici terreni improvvisativi che danno la possibilita ai solisti di alternarsi ma non sulle stesse strutture creando cosi quel cambiamento sonoro che rende piu fruibile la musica da parte dell’ ascoltatore. La musica del quartetto piano less e’ caratterizzata prima di tutto dal timbro scuro e molto caldo degli strumenti ; le linee dei due fiati s’intrecciano a quelle del basso e creano nei temi un contrappunto che insieme alla scelta ritmica spesso dispara crea una pulsazione nel complesso incalzante e dal punto di vista della ricerca musicale accattivante.
