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Biagio Coppa

Biagio Coppa is a saxophonist, composer, conductor, soudpainter and educator.

In recent years, Biagio Coppa dedicated his attention to the modern techniques of expression and composition related to the development of improvised music of Afro American origin. He believes in the importance and necessity of a logical analysis of the musical experience to get the best out of musical mainstream, therefore moving towards a deeper understanding of ancient and recent musical structures and architectures. In particular he studied the possible evolution of Steve Coleman’s musical proposal linked to the M-Base movement, the extension and application of the Harmolodic concept of Ornette Coleman, the organization and development of the sound material in the so called contemporary open forms and the consequence of an accomplished chromatic approach in the creation of an improvised language. He also attributes considerable importance to the influence that contemporary music (with references to Schonberg, Weber, Kagel, Feldman but also Cage and others) could have for the construction of a personal language nowadays: his attempt is in fact to include within the African-American approach the most creative European or more generally Western experience of the 20th century: dodecaphony, seriality, aleatory music, etc.

Since 1997, he is the artistic director of the “Flight Band”, a non-profit organization dedicated to the teaching and evolution of creative music where he plays the role of conductor of the relative stable orchestra. With the Flight Band he realized several projects where he not only curated the musical aspects and arrangements but also composed original music. In particular, he is actively involved in “synesthesia” projects mostly concerning videos and theatre performances. During live concerts, as orchestra director, he creates real-time compositions applying the “Sound Painting” conduction technique by Walter Thompson.

COLLABORATIONS Biagio’s musical experience is extremely varied, he had the chance to tour, perform and record with extraordinary musicians as: Ralph Alessi, Diego Allieri, Silvia Bolognesi, Cristiano Calcagnile, Giulio Capiozzo, Giuseppe Chiari, Francesco Di Lenge, Trevor Dunn, Shane Endesl, Mark Farber, Claudio Fasoli, Rob Garcia, Drew Gress, Mauro Grossi, Adam Hopkins, Xabier Iriondo, Tomas Fujiwara, Chris Lightcap, Massimo Manzi, Albert Mayer, Matt Mitchell, Gabriele Orsi, Aruàn Ortiz, John Patitucci, Tom Rainey, John Riley, Cory Smythe, Tyshawn Sorey, Carmen Staff, Achille Succi, Giovanni Tommaso, Nate Wooley, Attilio Zanchi.

DISCOGRAPHY

SLAM DUNK Project B. Coppa, M. Rebulla, M. Rottoli - 2019 No Flight Records

Extra Item C.O.D. Trio (B. Coppa, G. Orsi, F. Di Lenge) - 2017 No Flight Records

Union Street D. Allieri, B. Coppa, A. Hopkins, T. Fujiwara - 2015 No Flight Records

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Biagio Coppa: Slam Dunk Project

Read "Slam Dunk Project" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Playing the guessing game while listening to Slam Dunk Project by Biagio Coppa's trio will lead you to America and the New World. Which, of course, is the Old World when we are talking about jazz. Zooming in a bit closer, and we hit the East Coast before stopping in the Midwest. Coppa's compositions and the trio's performance fit nicely in in the rigorous and investigative worlds of 21st century Chicago and New York jazz. Chi-town is a great guess ...

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Biagio Coppa: Anastomosi

Read "Anastomosi" reviewed by Seamus Seoighe


Italian saxophonist and composer Biagio Coppa writes about his project, Anastomosi: “Both the name of this project venture and those of the various pieces in the CD, are jokes that arose from a chance conversation about the meaning of certain terms contained in a medical glossary. But you know however, how serious games can be sometimes and how they can unexpectedly stimulate new ideas. For Anastomosi, a word that Coppa defines as “roughly, connection, he brings together some cutting edge ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Slam Dunk Project

No Flight Records
2020

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Antagonisti Androgeni

Con Troppo Records
2012

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DNA

Point of Departure, WMPG-FM
2012

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Driving Out - Birth...

Abeat Records
2009

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Slam Dunk Project

From: Slam Dunk Project
By Biagio Coppa

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