✧ Billy Bros. Swing Orchestra✧ IT(PE)
Swing and Jump-Swing at the heydays of the black orchestras; rhythm, rhythm, rhythm: hard, thrilling and swingin’!!
Official “Queen of Swing” Norma Miller’s band, the Billy Bros. Swing Ork. focuses mostly on black orchestras repertoire as the Count Basie’ s one, along with songs from Duke Ellington, Chick Webb, Lucky Millinder, Buddy Johnson, Erskine Hawkins; during its 25 years on the road, this sparkling 10 piece unit has been playing in the best european Clubs and Festivals, giving its best with acrobatic stage antics, gags, hard-boiled stories, swing retro-culture and a dazzling zoot-suited wardrobe!!
3 cd’s, 4 cd’s compilations, Videos, TV and Radio broadcastings all around the world.
A brand new cd is coming out soon: “A Swingin’ Love Fest” with Queen of Swing Norma Miller!!!Membri: Maurizio Meterangelo (Upright bass & Voice) Pierluigi Zappacosta (Drums) Cristian Caprarese (Piano) Alessandro Di Fonso (Alto Sax) Andrea Silvestri (Baritone Sax) Simone Borghese (Tenor Sax) Matteo Di Matteo (Trombone) Jorge Gabriel Ro (Trumpet) Alex Tuchkov (Trumpet) Roberta Bevilacqua (Voice).
✧ Bixi Big Band ✧ Resident Band – IT(RM)
The Band was founded in 1999 as part of the music school CIAC in Rome, under the musical direction of M° Carlo Capobianchi with the aim of performing pieces that made the history of jazz.
Has performed, receiving in turn increasing acceptance by the public, in concerts that have received appreciation from the well-known Jazz musicians of the Italian and Roman and has gained considerable experience performing in the biggest Jazz events and important concerts at local and well-known jazz club in Rome with the participation of the most important Italian musical and dance schools. In 2010, after a brief lull, the band picks up again with the arrival on the staff of the New York singer Tess Amodeo-Vickery whose vocal quality and stage presence allow to renew the repertoire and explore new sounds.
The band, formed by professionals, takes its name from Bix Beiderbecke (originally Bixilander Swing Orchestra) and his debut run tracks by Bix, Joe King Oliver, Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong to pass, with time, the execution of a repertoire that is reference to major orchestras as those of Ellington, Basie, Miller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb and Stan Kenton using also purchased directly from the original arrangements of the great New York band leader Vince Giordano that were performed by the great American orchestras between the years 20’s and 40’s but without forgetting the most modern arrangements.
Musicians:
Carlo Capobianchi (tp, director),Tess Amodeo-Vickery, Luca Majnardi (voc) Piercarlo Salvia (tenor sax, cl), Olimpio Riccardi (tenor sax), Guglielmo Cetto (altp sax), Alessio Bernardi (alto sax, fl), Lisa Rogai (bar sax), Davide Richichi, Lorenzo Soriano (tp, Michael Supnick, Vincenzo Ierace, Christopher Haynes, (tb), Alessio Magliari (p) Terenzio De Cristofaro (g), Maurizio Capuano (b), Alberto Botta (d).
✧ Lucrezia’s Small Band ✧ IT(RM)
What appens when 5 dancers go on stage and take their musical instruments??? The dance floor explodes in frenzy!!!
Voice: Lucrezia Lopolito;
Guitar: Marco Moscianese Santori;
Bass: Oscar Cherici;
Sax: Marco Bonelli;
Drums: Fabiano Giovannelli.