CIRCLE TIME CECILIA SANCHIETTI JAZZ PROJECT

CIRCLE TIME CECILIA SANCHIETTI JAZZ PROJECT
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CIRCLE TIME CECILIA SANCHIETTI JAZZ PROJECT
“Circle time” Cecilia Sanchietti Jazz Project
jazz/afro/ethnic
The project “Circle Time” is an original jazz project, born in 2013 thanks to Cecilia Sanchietti,
leader, drummer, composer. The Album was presented on March 2015 with the label Alfa Music.
Most of the tracks are composed by Cecilia Sanchietti in cooperation with Federica Zammarchi,
Italian singer and arranger. Davide Grottelli, band sax player and Stefano Scatozza, Italian composer,
contributed to the track list.
All the musicians are well known Italian jazz players:
Cecilia Sanchietti – drums
David Boato – trumpet and flugelhorn
Davide Grottelli – sax tenor and soprano
Gaia Possenti – piano
Stefano Napoli –double bass
Last main performances:
• Participation in September 2015 in “Lucca Jazz Donna Festival” the most important Italian jazz
festival for women leader in jazz.
• On 14th July in Berlin, Presentation Album in “Cafè Tasso” and new next presentation in Berlin,
also, in the historical “B.Flat”, 28th December 2015.
• Album presentation in the most important jazz venues in Rome in 2015 (“Ventotto di Vino Jazz
Club”; “Teatro Il Cantiere”, “Elegance Cafè Jazz Club”).
• “Circle Time” is one of the winner of jazz MiBACT competition with the project “WINJazz”.
• In 2014 the project won the competition of Rome Municipality “La Notte dei Musei” with
performance at “Polo Museale Atac”, municipality Museum.
• October 2013 was presented in the most important Drummer Festival, “Batterika 2013”
Web
Website: www.ceciliasanchietti.com Face-book: “Cecilia Sanchietti e “Circle Time Cecilia Sanchietti jazz project”
e-mail: circletimeproject@libero.it
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ALBUM PRESS RELEASE
Cecilia Sanchietti: drummer and leader
with Album “Circle Time”
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On 6 of March the first Album of Cecilia Sanchietti, roman drummer and composer, was presented with Alfa Music
label. Cecilia Sanchietti is an eclectic artist and musician with prestigious collaborations and disco graphic
productions. In this first CD, we find, also, her experience in different music styles and her important human
experiences in social issues, in Italy and abroad.
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On 6 of March the first Album of Cecilia Sanchietti, roman drummer and composer and her jazz project, was launched, with important
musicians: Davide Grottelli on sax, Gaia Possenti on piano, Stefano Napoli on double bass, special guest trumpet player David Boato.
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Recorded on January 2015 and produced by Alfa Music label, was presented in two important events and locations in Rome, on 6 of
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March at 28DiVino Jazz Club and on 14 of March at the Theatre “Il Cantiere”, here in a special event “Circle Time and life” in
cooperation with the important photographer Pino Ninfa. In this album there is all Cecilia,the musical experience, who exhibited in
the past on important stages and with important musicians: Orchestra del 41° parallelo, Rita Marcotulli, Javier Girotto, Cristina
Comencini, Lunetta Savino, Fabio Abate, Carmen Consoli, Luca Madonia, Stefano Scatozza, Raffaella Misiti, Lucilla Galeazzi, Giovanna
Marini, Andrea Satta, Isabella Mangani, Giorgio Cuscito, Federica Zammarchi, Paolo Tombolesi, Melvin Brown, Marco Rea.
Cecilia Sanchietti: “The main reason of this Album is to take a photo of my musical and personal historical moment. It is overall a
beginning and not an arrival. At the same time it is a mean to get voice to the many human experiences I had in my past, give them a
sense bringing with me in the music. The Album is a quality project full of good music that recovers its social sense.”
Like writes Dario Zigiotto (producer and journalist) in the Album introduction, “Circle Time” is permeated of an anthropological jazz,
that dreams of a new and culturally diverse humanism which, through the music, is here ideally integrated.
In “Circle Time” we find, in fact, Cecilia’s deep human and professional way, voluntary, educator, Cecilia had lot of experiences in
Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Senegal, Chiapas, Republic Democratic of Congo, Rwanda and in Italian outskirts. Thanks to them she
collected faces and relations that we find in the Album tracks. A work with a strong identity and ethnic sounds, that was born with the
territories support. Supported by cultural and social promotion associations, Circle Time will be presented, too, in non central venues,
where the residents are considered “not experts” of music, but often they are. Their instrument: humanity.
THE ALBUM
“Circle Time” in humanistic psychology is a working group methodology, which makes use of alternative communication techniques.
Participants are disposed in a circle setting and are all at the same level. The circle is a space of discover, debate, exchange, with no
judgments or mistakes. It allows a communitarian and cooperative dialogue, where participants’ emotions are protected and taken into
consideration and the outcomes represent the personality of each one. This album is called “Circle Time” because it reproduces the same
setting. Through interplay and jazz improvisation, the group proposes, encourages and includes the expression of each musician. This
made it possible to propose original tracks. However, this album represents even more the Circle Time, because the core inspiration is
an interaction of styles, in particular ethnic, jazz, afro music. It’s a journey. Musicians and composers enjoyed playing with sounds,
harmonies and rhythm, mixing them and never flowing into a specific one. After all, the performers themselves are come from different
musical background, not only jazz. This guarantees more personality to the project.
Cecilia: “Circle Time” is also a way to lead the groove in the “circular” way, typical of jazz music. Performers play, dance and circulate
with it, lose it and find it again (always knowing where it is). The sound becomes sweet, soft, colored, charming, and this helps the
drummer to composes sweet melodies, never forgetting his role. The project was born also for this reason, for giving space to the
creative expression of drummer.
TRACK LIST
1)“Dance for G” (Stefano Scatozza), 2)“Et- NO” (Cecilia Sanchietti, Federica Zammarchi), 3)“Witchi Tai To” (Jim Pepper),
4)“Fotogramma” (Cecilia Sanchietti, Federica Zammarchi), 5)“Circle Time” (Cecilia Sanchietti), 6)“Cecilia e i misteri dell’armonia”
(Federica Zammarchi), 7)“Dance of the elephants” (Davide Grottelli), 8)“Rosa” (Hamilton de Holanda), 9)“Stolen Sleep” (Cecilia
Sanchietti, Federica Zammarchi).
WHERE TO FIND THE ALBUM
The Album is available on all digital circuits:
Alfa Music Believeband circuit http://alfamusic.believeband.com/
iTunes, Spotify. You cand find physically on bs.it, amazon.com, Feltrinelli and all sellers licensed.
Listening of teaser on Soundcloud and You Tube.
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PRESS REVIEW
The CD was promoted on the most important jazz web sites:
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www.jazzitalia.net
www.ijm.it – italianjazzmusic
www.online-jazz.net
www.pjazzanetwork
www.novitadiscografiche.it
www.comunicatimusicali.it
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Rome Municipality web sites
www.060608.it
www.romanotizie.it
www.romaspettacoli.com
www.eventioggi.net
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Radio and web radio interviews:
“Radio città aperta” “Jazz Train” (4/03/15)
“Radio Abracadabra” (9 May 2015)
“Anima Jazz” Web radio, 9 August 2015
radio leftwing.it (31/03/2015)
vitecreative.blogspot.it (1/4/15)
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Press interviews and promotion
Jazzit magazine
Jazz Agenda.com
Critics
DARIO ZIGIOTTO – PRODUCER/MANAGER/JOURNALIST (6th of March 2015)
Humanity in odd time signature, as well as saying music and society. When this combination is apart, it reveals the universal unease of
our planet perpetually hanging in the balance. This is a superb artistic intuition, because it has a project underneath and, even more
important, it is expression of a genuine sensitivity and humanity: the freedom in jazz improvisation creates a center of attention for
social connections and welcomes different identities. It makes use of a storytelling device, by hinting to a tribal jazz, which is actually
virtuous, transgressive – and therefore civilized – strongly contemporary, it goes beyond its origins, when music was expression of pain
and oppression. The theme is circular as the time of the history, and the time is here developed by the rhythm, which allows all
musicians to perform solos in a circular way, showing the perfect match with the name of this artistic project, which mixes colors,
moments and atmospheres in an harmonic and universal language, such as music is (and always should be). “Circle Time” is permeated
of an anthropological jazz, that dreams of a new and culturally diverse humanism which, through the music, is here ideally integrated.
Thank you.
“FELTRINELLI” – MUSIC EDITOR (13rd of April 2015)
http://www.lafeltrinelli.it/musica/cd-album/sanchietti-cecilia/circle-time/8032050015125#block-reviews
Circle time is the further proof that the jazz is Italy is alive and continues to look for new expressions. In this case is Cecilia
Sanchietti, composer, able drummer and promoter of a project with a lot of Italian talents. Among which Gaia Possenti, piano
player of U-man trio, just recommended in 2014. Jazz and improvisation full of world and ethnic contaminations and sounds from
Bombino and Tinariwen.
PIER LUIGI ZANZI – Journalist and music critic (Music.tnt) – June 2015 (ATTACHED)
http://www.music-on-tnt.com/recensioni/articolo.php?id_articolo=1730
FABRIZIO CECCARELLI – Journalist and music critic (Jazzitalia, Romainjazz, Jazzit )- May 2015 (ATTACHED)
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CURRICULUM VITAE
CECILIA SANCHIETTI - drums
She begins playing drums at 18 years old, studying with Mimmo Antonini (blues, pop,
funk), Emanuele Smimmo (latin jazz), Fabrizio Sferra (Jazz). Frequented the best jazz
clinics and in 2009 received by Berklee College of Boston the reward like
“outstanding musician - ship”. She followed seminaries with Bob Moses, Horacio El
Negro Hernandez, Elio Rivagli, Ezio Zaccagnini, Francisco Mela, Kenny Barron, Karl Potter.
She studied harmony and composition with Federica Zammarchi. She has played different
kind of music (pop, jazz, ethnic, swing ...), but the last years she focussed on jazz, ethnic
music.
Main jazz collaborations:
“Circle time - Cecilia Sanchietti jazz project”, her first original jazz Album, with Alfa Music
Label and exhibitions in the main Italian jazz venues and festival (Festival Lucca Jazz
Donna 2015, Batterika 2013 etc... - see above Circle Time CV);
“PACEM IN TERRIS” Orchestra, Iacopo Sipari da Pescasseroli director, in cooperation with
Opera’s Choir Orchestra;
“Orchestra del 41esimo parallelo”, ethnic Orchestra, Stefano Scatozza Director, exhibitions
in most important theatres and music venues (Museum Villa Torlonia, Auditorium
Massimo, Auditorium Parco of Music, India Theatre, etc..). with relevant musicians: Javier
Girotto, Rita Marcotulli, Raffaella Misiti, Lucilla Galeazzi, Giovanna Marini, Andrea Satta,
Nada. Other jazz musicians collaborations: David Boato, Davide Grottelli, Michael Supnick,
Gianluca Galvani, Cinzia Gizzi, Giorgio Cuscito, Federica Zammarchi, Arturo Valiante, Paolo
Tombolesi, Paolo Innarella.
Other not jazz relevant collaborations:
Carmen Consoli, famous Italian singer, Fabio Abate Tour 2011, Luca Madonia Tour 2011 and the label “On the road”
Movin Melvin Brown (http://www.movinmelvin.com/).
The singer songwriter Agnese Valle (Musicultura 2015, Fete de la Musique Parigi 2013, Premio De Andrè 2015 etc…).
Shows:
Marco Rea and the show “Please…mi racconti l’America”
Mariangela Aruanno and Giovanni De Filippi “Esiste un modo per volare meraviglioso” direction Silvia Cuccuvillo.
CD recorded:
- 2015, “Circle Time Cecilia Sanchietti jazz project” – Alfa Music Label.
- 2014. “Esiste un modo per volare meraviglioso”
- 2013 “Viaggio Orizzontale”, Orchestra 41esimo parallelo, Zone di Musica Label.
- 2013 “Anche oggi piove forte” Agnese Valle
She teaches drums in several school of music: “Neuma” “Bat-te-r-i-a drumming school” “Mistemika”, “Accademia Musicale Euterpe”.
She has the teaching certification “Yamaha”.
DAVIDE GROTTELLI - sax
He studied sax with Gianni Oddi and Maurizio Giammarco, arrangement and composition
with Ettore Gentile, Bruno Tommaso, Fabrizio Cesare, Roberto Spadoni. Studied flute
with Viviana Fanasca. He has experiences in different music styles: jazz, contemporary
music, ethnic music, pop music, dub and popular music. He experimented, too, the use of
E.W.I., an electronic instrument that permits to use the electronic on wind acoustic
instruments. He wrote for theatre, dance, multimedia shows, also like performer. He
worked, also, in Orchestras on TV shows on RAI and Mediaset. The passion for the ethnic
music permitted him to know better other cultures and their wind instruments. In the
past year he produced his last CD “Il Mastromaestro”, etno/jazz, where the popular
sounds are contaminated with jazz. He cooperated with: Gianni Oddi, Ettore Fioravanti,
Marco Siniscalco, Sanjay Kansa Banik, Armando Croce, Francesco Mazzeo, Alessandro Gwis, Aldo Bassi, Riccardo Fassi, Stefano
Cantarano, Zsolt Kovacs, Gianluca Renzi, Sal Genovese, Feliciano Zacchia, Luca Bulgarelli, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Emilio Dino Conti,
Roberta Escamila Garrison, Amii Stewart, Teresa De Sio, Tullio De Piscopo, Fiorello, Carla Fracci, Renzo Arbore, Renato Zero,
Rocco Papaleo, Umberto Bindi, Franco Micalizzi, Wilma Goich, Marcello Cirillo, Renato Serio, Gnawa Banbara, Stefano Masciarelli,
Emanuele Friello, Enrico Cremonesi, Leonardo Gensini, Gianni Nocenzi, Logos Ensemble, Pantarei, Mark Wolfson, Otomo
Yoshihide, Elliott Sharp, Nour Eddine Fatty.
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DAVID BOATO – Trumpet and flugelhorn
He collaborated with (main list):
Franco D’Andrea, Tony Scott, Ares Tavolazzi, Giovanni Tommaso, Bob Moses,
Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pietro Tonolo, Sandro Gibellini, Mauro Negri, Naco, Dan
Kinzelman, ha suonato con Steve Lacy e Kept-Orchestra, Lee Konitz e orchestra
del suono improvviso, Guillermo Klein ed ha avuto occasione di suonare con
Darryl Jones, Emanuel Bex, Joe Chambers, Matthew Garrison, Roberto Gatto,
Chucho Valdez, Danilo Perez, Horacio “el negro” Hernandez.
He took part in interactive performances with theatre contest (Massimo
Somaglino, Nora Fuser, Giuliana Musso, Pasquale Panella, Daniele Formica,
Alessandro Haber) and dance contest (“Tra Gesto e Suono” contemporary dance company of Indaco-Mogliano Veneto (TV),
“Difforme” with Danzarea-Mantova, “Mainerio” di Glauco Venier al Mittel Fest, experiment of interaction between music, theatre
and dance).
During the past year he created a project of interpretation of traditional music of Veneto, in jazz, with the participation of Glauco
Venier, Ares Tavolazzi, Ferenc Nemeth, Pietro Tonolo, Yuri Goloubev, Jimmy Weinstein, Giovanni Guidi e Walter Paoli.
He cooperates with a lot of etno - jazz musicians and Hungarian jazz musicians Szabolcs Szöke, Péter Szalai, Dániel Váczi, Gábor
Juhász, Elemér e József Balázs.
He had the degree with “Summa cum Laude” in Berklee College of Music of Boston on 1992, for 23 years he has been the
assistance at Umbria Jazz Clinics in Perugia, clinics of famous American school. Since 1998 he is coordinator of Officina Musicale
(Mogliano Veneto-TV) and coordinates with Umbria jazz a twinning with Boston, giving a lot of scholarships for guys.
He participated in a lot of festival (Main):
Umbria Jazz, Umbria Jazz Balcanic Windows-Serbia, Sapporo Snow Festival-isola di Hokkaido-Giappone, Jazz at Plaza-HavanaCuba, Jazz at the Museum-New York-USA, Wuk Festival-Vienna, Maribor Jazz Festival-Slovenia, Jazz e Dintorni-Mogliano Veneto
(TV), Vicenza Jazz, PERC fest-Laigueglia-Savona, Festival Jazz di Milano ed altri. Ha suonato in Italia, USA, Argentina, Giappone,
Spagna, Francia, Svizzera, Austria, Germania, Olanda, Slovenia, Serbia, Croazia, Cecoslovacchia, Russia e Ungheria.
Ha recorded about 60 Cd.
GAIA POSSENTI – piano
Gaia Possenti, piano player, composer, arranger, versatile in different styles,
from the classic music to the new age. She studied with Alessandro Gwiss and
graduated in Rome Conservatory on 2012 on Piano jazz. On 2000, really
young, she was in the Theatrale tour with the musical “An american in Paris:
tribute to George Gershwin” with Christian De Sica.
She produced on the past year the CD “Infant speech” with U-Man Trio, edited
by Alfa Music, with Massimo Carrano on drums and Fabrizio Cecca on double
bass. She cooperates in a lot of Festival and concert venues (Casa del Jazz,
Alexanderplatz, Accademica di S. Cecilia …), with different jazz band: “Women
next door ” of Elisabetta Antonini, “Mazag Quartet” of Danielle Di Majo,
“Playstation 7″ of Giancarlo Maurino and with “Claudio Leone Quartet” .
On 2009 she participated in “Controcanto” “Donne in Jazz” with Santa Cecilia
Vocal jazz ensemble, Paolo Damiani guest. Like composer, she wrote the “Mon-day” soundtrack, short film with Alessandro
Gassman and on April 2012 she played “Music for 18 musicians” of Steve Reich in “Luoghi Musicali” Festival in Caserta, Ruggeri
direction. On 2012, also, she participated like piano player and composer at Festival “Una Striscia di Terra Feconda” an ItalianFrench Festival of jazz music and improvisation, in Auditorium Parco of Music of Rome.
On 2013 she performed the Italian debut of “Out of Zaleski’s gazebo” of Gavin Bryars at the IUC di Roma.
On August 2014 she introduced the Festival Busoni, thanks to the invitation of Rita Marco Tulli, like representative of Italian
feminine jazz musicians, sharing three piano Steinwey in an experimental gig, with the Dutch women Julia Hulsmann e Julia Kadel.
CD recorded
2008, Lullabies for your inner child (Beneath the underdog - L.A. California)
2005, Introducing Luigi Pignatiello Quartet, produzioni Philology
2000, Un Americano a Parigi: tributo a George Gershwin, E. Sanny
2014, “Infant Speech” Alfa Music - 2015, “Circle Time” – Alfa Music
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STEFANO NAPOLI – double bass
He studied electric bass with Massimo Moriconi, Luca Pirozzi, Cesare Chiodo, Marco
Siniscalco, Mario Guarini, Alessandro Patti, Carlo Zaratti and graduated in 2012 in “ “S.
Cecilia” conservatory of Rome, studying with Massimo Giorgi. Main projects collaborations:
Acustimantico (Auditorium “Parco della Musica”, Villa Ada “Roma incontra il Mondo”,
Berlino, Oradea), Contrada Casiello (Parla con Me, Fahrenheit radio 3, Teatro Palladium,
Parigi, Lille), IALS Big Band diretta da Gianni Oddi (“La Dolce Diva” teatro Olimpico Roma,
Aula Magna Università “la Sapienza”…), Orchestra Giovanile del Conservatorio “S. Cecilia” di
Roma (Festival Internazionale “Jeux d’Art” a Villa d’Este, Auditorium Parco della Musica
(2011), “Trans” music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, M° Tonino Battista). Sbatash (Villa
Celimontana, Casa del Jazz), Snow Cycle (Casa del Jazz).
He played with, too: Toto Torquati, Fabio Zeppetella, Davide Grottelli, Carlo Battisti, Harold
Bradley, Fabrizio Cardosa, Tony Formichella, Cicci Santucci, Luca De Nuzzo, Umberto
Papadia, Lucilla Galeazzi, Nando Citarella, Emanuele Giunti e l’Orchestra ‘900, Andrea
Pagani, CaravanNight Orchestra, Gerardo Di Lella Orchestra, Diapason, Tony Cattano,
Simone Salvatore e Ida Landsberg, Agnese Valle, Ilaria Viola, Pilar, Andrea Rivera, Francesco
Di Giacomo, I Seiottavi (Tributo a Rino Gaetano), Alter Clan, Paolo Damiani, Marco
Ambrosini, Exit Orchestra diretta dal M° Marco Tiso.
2013/2014 Theatre show “End Of The Rainbow” with Monica Guerritore, direction of Juan Diego Puerta Lopez. (Teatro
“Persiani” di Recanati, Teatro “La Pergola” di Firenze, Teatro Eliseo di Roma, Teatro Biondo di Palermo e numerosi altri…)
2011-2012, Micca Club di Roma, cabaret show “Zaboom” and “Festival anni ’60”, he cooperated with artists like Mal, Bruno
Filippini, Giuliano dei Notturni… “Comedy Tour Risollevante 2012”, he accompanied different cabaret artists of Zelig and
Colorado Cafè show (Nando Timoteo, Pali e Dispari, Diego Parassole, Alberto Patrucco, Tino Fimiani…) on Sky Comedy Central.
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