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X-WR-CALNAME:ITALIAN WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL: MARIA PIA DE VITO QUARTET
	: DEDICATED TO JONI MITCHELL in New York City at Blue Note - Eventful
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SUMMARY:ITALIAN WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL: MARIA PIA DE VITO QUARTET: DED
	ICATED TO JONI MITCHELL
DESCRIPTION: FEATURING: Maria Pia\, vocals Edward Simon\, piano Scott 
	Colley\, bass Clarence Penn\, drums  A Singer\, composer\, and arrange
	r\, Maria Pia studied lyrical and contemporary singing and began her o
	n-stage activity in 1976 as a singer and player (plectra\, percussions
	\, piano) in research groups committed to ethnic music as well as ethn
	ic and non-ethnic polyphony\, mostly related to the Mediterranean\, Ba
	lkan and south-American areas. Since '80\, she's been active in the ja
	zz sphere\, collaborating steadily with musicians like John Taylor\, R
	alph Towner\, Rita Marcotulli\, Ernst Rejiseger\, Paolo Fresu\, Norma 
	Winstone\, Steve Swallow\, Gianluigi Trovesi\, David Linx\, Diederik W
	issels and gigging with musicians having the calibre of Joe Zawinul\, 
	Michael Brecker\, Miroslav Vitous\, Uri Caine\, Dave Liebman\, Billy H
	art\, Eliot Ziegmund\, Cameron Brown\, Steve Turre\, Maria Joao\, Rama
	mani Ramanujan\, Art Ensemble of Chicago\, Nguyen-le and many others. 
	She's participated in the most important international festivals\, and
	 has run many European and overseas tours. After 15 years of jazz prac
	tice\, much work on the great American songbook\, on scat and be-bop\,
	 and the first trespassing into free\, she began a new phase of her wo
	rk with the project Nauplia\, conceived and directed together with Rit
	a Marcotulli. The music marries jazz and the multi-shaped peculiaritie
	s of Neapolitan singing ("Nauplia"\, "Fore Paese"\, "Triboh"). Since 1
	996 she's collaborated with the British composer Colin Towns\; with hi
	s Big Band\, the "Mask Orchestra"\, she played live at the major festi
	vals in England and Germany including the remarkable exhibition at the
	 Queen Elizabeth Hall of London with the "Mask Symphonic" (70 musician
	s) and the participation of Norma Winstone. In 1997 she formed a trio 
	with John Taylor and Ralph Towner\, with which she recorded the CD "Ve
	rso"\, did several tours in Italy and a long European tour during 2001
	. In that year the name of Maria Pia has been inserted\, by the most c
	elebrated signatures of American jazz press\, in the category "BEYOND 
	ARTIST" of the 49th DOWN BEAT CRITICS POLL\; in this list\, her name a
	ppears near the ones of outstanding artists such as Caetano Veloso\, J
	oni Mitchell\, Cesaria Evora\, Olu Dara\, Carlos Santana\, Uri Caine a
	nd Marisa Monte. This very important acknowledgement has definitively 
	imposed her at an international level. 2003 was the year for the proje
	ct and the CD "Tumulti"\, which represents her most experimental work\
	, oriented to interaction between voice\, improvisation and electronic
	s\, by the side of Patrice Heral\, co-leader of the project\, and with
	 the collaboration of the brilliant cello player Ernst Reijseger and t
	he Austrian pianist Paul Urbanek\, multi-awarded in his country for hi
	s "reverse composing" works. "Tumulti" was received with enormous appr
	oval by the critics\, and was performed live at jazz festivals in Ital
	y and abroad. In her latest work\, "So Right" (2005)\, together with t
	he co-leaders Danilo Rea and Enzo Pietropaoli and the contribute of th
	e drummer Aldo Romano\, she faces a reflection about the song form\, t
	hrough the composition of originals and the reinterpretation of songs 
	by Joni Mitchell\, great innovator of the North American songbook. 
LOCATION:Blue Note @ New York, United States
SEQUENCE:1201363695
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