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Walter Beltrami

Walter Beltrami is one of the most creative and interesting guitarist/composer of the new italian jazz and improvised music scene.

His last release Piccoli Numeri, produced by CamJazz, drawn international attention to his work. He studied jazz composition and performance at Berklee College of music with Mick Goodrick, John Damian, Ed Tomassi, Dave Santoro; then, he graduated with honors in performance at the Musikhochschule Luzern, Switzerland, where he studied with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Frank Moebus and Christy Doran and won a scholarship to attend the 17th IASJ Meeting, the meeting of the world-wide schools of jazz directed by Dave Liebman. He took courses and masterclasses with Chris Cheek, Stefano Battaglia, Pat Metheny, Dave Liebman, Mark Feldman, Brandford Marsalis, George Duke, Scott Henderson, John Stowell, Pat Martino, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Peter Bernstein, Walter Thompson, Silvye Courvoisier and others. In 2003 he won the Incroci Sonori Jazz Award at Moncalieri Jazz Festival and recorded the first cd with his own trio. In 2004 Beltrami won the important italian Luca Flores Award as best soloist at Barga Jazz Festival and was one of the 8 choosen final participants world-wide of the First Gibson Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition at Montreux Jazz Festival.

He has performed with Claudio Puntin, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Franco D’Andrea, Walter Thompson, Rainer Tempel, Francesco Bearzatti,Markku Ounaskari, Daniel Kinzelman, Francesco Bigoni, Moritz Eggert, Giovanni Guidi, Claudio Filippini, Danilo Gallo and many others.

He performed in jazz clubs and theaters in Italy, Spain, United States, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

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Walter Beltrami: Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo

Read "Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Guitarist Walter Beltrami has good reason for calling this CD Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo. It's a disorder that emanates in the inner ear and results in a spinning sensation caused by changes in body posture. For him, it lasted six months and disappeared as suddenly as it came. Beltrami wrote many of the compositions on this record during that time. Whatever the causative factors, Beltrami's compositions are creative nuggets. He is not immune to drawing from several genres and ...

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Take Five With Walter Beltrami

Read "Take Five With Walter Beltrami" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Walter Beltrami:Studied performance and jazz composition at Berklee College of Music. Graduated in performance at Musikhochschule Luzern, CH. Three released CDs as a leader with Philology, CamJazz and Re:think-art records. Won the Luca Flores Jazz Price as best Italian soloist at Barga Jazz 2004 and one of the eight finalists world-wide of the first Gibson Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition in Montreux. I've performed with Claudio Puntin, Francesco Bearzatti, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Markku Ounaskari, Giovanni Guidi, Dan Kinzelman, and ...

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Walter Beltrami: Piccoli Numeri

Read "Piccoli Numeri" reviewed by John Kelman


Despite a long career and lengthy discography, it's always been curious that John Abercrombie has been a less influential guitarist than peers like Pat Metheny, John Scofield and Bill Frisell. With an instantly recognizable approach as fluid and adaptable as that of any guitarist alive today, it might seem that Abercrombie's impact has been more felt than heard. Walter Beltrami is a rare occurrence--a guitarist who, if any single artist can be cited as a stylistic reference, is undeniably linked ...

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Walter Beltrami Trio: WB3

Read "WB3" reviewed by Eric J. Iannelli


Scan the reverse side of this CD and you're likely to think that there's been some kind of printing error. Tracks by Wayne Shorter (two), Sam Rivers, Joe Henderson (two again), John Coltrane--saxophonists all. And yet Walter Beltrami is listed as a guitarist. Surely this has to be a mistake? The question is still there once the disc is spinning and it's become quite evident that, yes, Beltrami is indeed a guitarist. There is no particularly “saxophonish" ...

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"...Despite the pensive and often rubato nature of the disc—or with time so elastic that it feels that way—there's plenty of variety. There's no dearth of harmonic movement, with one of Piccoli Numeri's defining characteristics being Beltrami's sense of melody; so unique as to be both unpredictable and eminently singable. The trio moves as a single voice throughout, waxing and waning dynamically with the kind of freedom that might be abstruse, if it werent for the strong focus and thematic content of Beltrami's writing and the trio’s strong chemistry.

It’s the kind of simpatico playing that only comes from working together regularly

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Kernel Panic

Self Produced
2013

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Timoka

Bobby Hackett-Legendary Jazz Musician
2009

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Piccoli Numeri

CAM Jazz
2007

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WB3

Unknown label
2005

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