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Dario Congedo

Dario Congedo drums and percussion Dorian Dumont piano Federico Pecoraro electric bass Dario Congedo graduated in classical percussion and jazz drums at the Conservatory of Music “Tito Schipa” where he currently teaching drums. He has studied drums in Italy with: Maurizio dei Lazzaretti, Fabrizio Sferra and Alessio Riccio. He has studied in New York with: John Riley, Matt Wilson, Jonathan Blake, Jim Black, Ernesto Simpson, and Vince Cherico. He has also studied jazz at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2009. As leader and composer he recorded three albums, “Nàdan” (blue serge records 2009), “Calligrafie” (Desuonatori 2013), and the last work “Don't Quit” (Workin'Label 2020).

He has played and recorded with: Gianluca Petrella, Flavio Boltro, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nicola Conte, Kekko Fornarelli, Julian Oliver Mazzariello, Rob Mazurek, Javer Girotto, Nguyen Le, Fabrizio Bosso, Marco Tamburini, Rosalia de Souza, Gegè Telesforo, Francesco Bearzatti, Nicola Conte, Lindsey Webster, Enrico Zanisi, Claudio Filippini, Tino Tracanna, Paolo Belli, Antonella Ruggiero, Carolina Bubbico, Renato D'Aiello, Rosalia De Souza, Rocco Zifarelli, Cheryl Porter, Simona Severini, Massimo Carrano, Gilson Silveira, Giovanni Imparato, Fabio Zeppetella, Nailah Porter, Jaques Mauger, Gaetano Partipilo, Arthur Miles, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, and many others.

He has collaborated with many conductors, such as: Louis Bacalov; Beppe Vessicchio, Pino Iodice and The National Italialian Jazz Orchestra.

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Gaetano Partipilo: Boom Collective - Live Somewhere

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Italian saxophonist Gaetano Partipilo has been playing and studying music since he was eight. After conservatory studies, Partipilo was engaged to perform by the likes of Mark Murphy, Enrico Rava and Tony Scott. Having spent several months in New York City, Partipilo returned to Italy where he formed the Urban Society project, with whom he recorded two albums for Soul Note Records, and a 2011 live in-concert reprise, Upgrading, for Jazz Engine records. In 2013, Partipilo released Besides: ...

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Gaetano Partipilo: Boom Collective

Read "Boom Collective" reviewed by Emmanuel Di Tommaso


"Welcome to the Boom Collective world. Make some space into your heart and fill it with love and music and these vibes that come from within. Close you eyes, feel it, touch it." Con queste parole pronunciate sulla base swingante di batteria e di basso dell'iniziale “Opening Gate," Angela Esmeralda dà il benvenuto nel mondo dei Boom Collective, un progetto nato nel 2018 dalla mente di Gaetano Partipilo. Il sassofonista di origini pugliesi, punta di diamante del jazz ...

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Dario Congedo & Nàdan: Calligrafie

Read "Calligrafie" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Il giovane percussionista salentino Dario Congedo è l'autore di tutti i brani presenti in questo album dal packaging quanto mai desueto, come del resto tutti quelli prodotti dall'etichetta leccese Desuonatori. Vi trova posto una musica a sua volta assai particolare, di referente jazzistico ma non solo, contrassegnata da un descrittivismo tutto sommato abbastanza atipico, strutturalmente molto sorvegliata, ottimamente impaginata (a volte persino lievemente schematica), in invidiabile equilibrio tra le varie voci. I brani migliori appaiono “Calligrafia," nitidamente ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Don't Quit

Workin' Label
2020

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Don't Quit

Workin' Label
2020

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Boom Collective

Auand Records
2020

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Boom Collective -...

Auand Records
2020

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Calligrafie

Desuonatori
2013

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Don't Quit

From: Don't Quit
By Dario Congedo

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