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Paolo Sorge

Born in 1968, Paolo Sorge is a guitarist and composer from Catania, since thirty years he explores the musical field of improvisation with collateral interests in jazz, popular music, radical improvisation, film music for silent movies, soundscape composition, the method of conduction applied to music education, and composition for various ensembles, from electric guitar quartet to jazz orchestra. After having lived and worked for twelve years in Rome, in 2003 he returned to his homeland Sicily where his career started. 

In all these years Paolo Sorge has recorded and collaborated with many different musicians, like Michel Godard, Butch Morris (Bologna, Angelica Festival 2006), Keith Tippett, Don Byron, Elliott Sharp, Andy Sheppard, Guillermo Klein, Mark Turner, Fabrizio Bosso, Gianluigi Trovesi, Alfio Antico. He obtained a degree in composition (conservatory of Perugia, 1998) and in jazz (conservatory of Latina, 2001).


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Paolo Sorge: Triplain

Read "Triplain" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Il chitarrista catanese Paolo Sorge, tra i fondatori di Improvvisatore Involontario, si unisce qui a un'altro membro storico dell'etichetta -Francesco Cusa e al contrabbassista Gabriele Evangelista per dar vita a un classico trio. C'è una qualche varietà stilistica nelle sette tracce originali che coprono i tretatre minuti di musica dell'album: si inizia con un brano ritmico -"Divergenze" -piuttosto classico e con la chitarra protagonista, per proseguire con “Floating," nel quale protagonista è invece il contrabbasso, per giungere a ...

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Paolo Sorge: Ringlike

Read "Ringlike" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Non fatevi ingannare eccessivamente dalle accattivanti melodie, dalla soavità dei suoni, dalla raffinatezza degli arrangiamenti, dalla precisione della scrittura, dall'eleganza esecutiva. Perché se è vero che Ringlike aggancia senza indugi l'attenzione dell'ascoltatore, se lo fa subito amico concedendogli confidenza e dispensando amabilità comunicativa, è altrettanto vero che sotto la superficie pullula un mondo parallelo animato da intrighi ritmici e zigzaganti traiettorie, riferimenti alla musica colta e impasti ritmici inusuali. È in questa apparente dualità che risiede il ...

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Paolo Sorge Electric Guitar Quartet: Tetraktys

Read "Tetraktys" reviewed by Mark Corroto


A few years ago, there seemed to be a new saxophone quartet springing up every five minutes. The configurations typically featured differing sounds from the saxophone family, from the tiny sopranino to the huge baritone. So why not showcase the various sounds of the electric guitar in a quartet?Led by Paolo Sorge, this foursome does just that. Together with Giancarlo Mazzù, Fabrizio Licciardello and Enrico Cassia, Sorge's quartet winds its way though a jazz program. with some classical ...

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«The sound at the centre: this seems to be the purpose of Paolo Sorge. A clear, broad, full-bodied
sound that fills the spaces and pervades them with a melodic and at times lyrical background»
Flavio Caprera about Triplain on Jazz Convention

«Absolutely compelling the vocabulary adopted, loaded with expressive freedom... and then
there are fragments of visionary themes, fantasy and risk»
Luciano Vanni about Ringlike on JAZZIT

«An irresistible streak of tziganate, animal screams, exhausting tour de force between trombone and
guitar sustain the incessant rhythm of an improvisation without a net, of a counterpoint game
perfectly calibrated. The pure and wild guitar of Sorge is a real wonder: original as sin!»
Federico Scoppio about Slow Food on Rolling Stone

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Mirroring

Blue Mama Records
2022

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Triplain

Improvvisatore Involontario
2017

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Ringlike

Improvvisatore Involontario
2015

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Tetraktys

Improvvisatore Involontario
2010

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