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Javier Girotto
Javier Edgardo Girotto plays soprano, baritone saxophone, flute, bass clarinet, quenas, sicus. He was born in Cordoba, Argentina and took an interest in music thanks to his grandfather A.L.Caroli, band director, first playing snare drum, then clarinet in E flat in the Infanto Juvenil de Cordoba and in the band of Villa del Rosario, then he changed to clarinet in B flat. For a musician to change from clarinet to saxophone is quite natural. Having chosen sax alto, in Buenos Aires, he looked for someone who could introduce him to jazz, but had no luck. Once again in Cordoba he created his first jazz- inspired groups, and dedicated himself also to commercial music known as “Quartetos”. At sixteen he studied the classics, enrolled in the Provincial De Cordoba Conservatory and as a saxophone class did not exist, he attended a clarinet and flute class obtaining an average level in both instruments.. Together with his studies at the conservatory he collaborated with various groups, among which the Vertiente, a mixture of fusion and argentinian folklore, the Jazz 440, “Jam”, Enzo Piccioni Quartet and the Juan Ciallella Quartet. At age 19 he won a scholarship at the Berklee College of Music and at last all the jazz doors opened. He stayed in the prestigious bostonian school for four years, graduating in Professional Music “Magnum Cum Laude”. These four years in the US are important, a period in which he deepened his composition, arrangment, sax and improvisation studies with teachers of the calabre of Joseph Viola, George Garzone, Hall Crook e Jerry Bergonzi. He then learned the “profession”, playing with Danilo Perez, George Garzone, Hall Crook, Bob Moses, Herb Pomeroy and many other musicians from whom he took a spark of their experience. The Italian adventure of Javier Girotto started at age 25, when he took care of his family affairs in Puglia. In a short time he decided to start his professional career in this country. In Italy he alternated his collaboration between commercial latin groups and jazz groups with which he started his restless composer and arranger activity. His first roman group was “Tercero Mundo” together with Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez in the tracks of latin jazz, a sextet with piano, bass, percussions, drums, trumpet and sax. Then soon followed the “Six Sax”, a saxophone quartet with bass and drums composed of Paolo Recchia and Daniele Tittarelli alto, Gianni Savelli tenor, Javier baritone, Marco Siniscalco bass and Pietro Iodice drums, with whom he recorded his first CD in 1995 special guest Bob Mintzer and Randy Brecker.
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Jazz'on Parma Orchestra with Javier Girotto at Ruggero Ruggeri Theatre Guastalla
by Danilo Codazzi
A collection of photos from the Jaz'on Parma Orchestra concert at Ruggero Ruggeri Theatre in Guastalla on January 20, 2024 featuring Jazz'on Parma Orchestra and Javier Girotto. ...
read moreJavier Girotto: Armonia a tempo di Tango
by Paolo Marra
Javier Girotto rappresenta il prototipo di artista nomade, portavoce di un messaggio artistico personale ma, allo stesso tempo, universale. Dopo le prime esperienze musicali a Cordoba, sua città natale, e poi nelle strade di Buenos Aires, il sassofonista argentino si trasferisce prima negli Stati Uniti, per studiare al Berklee College of Music, e poi in Italia, dove trova la sua definitiva affermazione. Nonostante queste esperienze internazionali, Girotto resta sempre legato alle sue radici e, nel 1994, fonda gli ...
read moreServillo, Mangalavite, Girotto all’Ah-Um Milano Jazz Festival
by Paolo Peviani
Peppe Servillo-Natalio Mangalavite-Javier Girotto Ah-Um Milano Jazz Festival-XVII Edizione Teatro Fontana Milano 16.5.2019 Correva l'anno 2000 quando l'Ah-Um Milano Jazz Festival muoveva i suoi primi passi come vetrina della scena jazzistica avant in un teatro di periferia. Bei tempi! Ma allora il pubblico milanese era più aperto a certe sperimentazioni. Poi sappiamo com'è andata: i tempi sono cambiati. Qualche festival è scomparso, l'Ah-Um ha saputo adattarsi e nel corso degli ...
read moreJavier Girotto, Jon Balke, Furio Di Castri, Patrice Héral: Unshot Movies
by Neri Pollastri
Unshot Movies è opera di un quartetto multinazionale di grandi individualità che, oltre agli spazi strumentali, si dividono equamente oneri e onori compositivi (tre brani firmati a testa) e che, mettendo a frutto le loro diversità, realizzano un lavoro sorprendente a dispetto del suo impianto piuttosto tradizionale. Il disco, come si intuisce dal titolo, è una raccolta di storie sonore," dall'andamento sempre molto lirico, sebbene non sempre lineare e, anzi, ciascuna caratterizzata da dettagli strutturali diversi. Vi gioca ...
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