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Giulio Carmassi
Carmassi is a member of the Pat Metheny Unity Group (on piano, vocals and horns) and of the "Will Lee's Family" (on sax, trumpet, guitar, keys and vocals), with Steve Gadd, Chuck Loeb and Oli Rockberger.
He also plays piano with Emmy Rossum, and this year arranged, and played every horn and piano on her new album "Sentimental Journey" for Warner/Reprise.
Carmassi has been collaborating or playing with many New York artists including Lew Soloff, Oz Noy, Keith Carlock, Mark Egan, Tim Lafebvre, Bryan Scary, Rocky Bryant, Anne Drummond and Francois Moutin.
He scored the dark comedy "Serial Buddies", with Christopher Lloyd, and Maria Menounos, and "Somewhere tonight" starring John Turturro, and has collaborated as a multi-instrumentalist with the UK indie rock sensation Ginger Wildheart at his latest project "Hey Hello". The album has reached #1 on the UK rock charts. He graduated as a classical pianist, record engineer, film composer and director, and he's self taught on all his other instruments.
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by Ian Patterson
Nine years after the Pat Metheny Group crowned its mammoth The Way Up (Nonesuch, 2005) tour before 100,000 people at the Montreal Jazz Festival, it seems increasingly unlikely that Metheny will reconvene his main vehicle, not now with a vibrant new group pushing him compositionally and slaying audiences. Or does it? In a 2012 interview with All About Jazz , drummer Antonio Sanchez--who has worked closely with Metheny for a dozen years--said of the PMG: everybody is craving another go ...
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by John Kelman
Strangely enough, the release of Kin () may be the one that most polarizes longtime fans of guitarist Pat Metheny. There are those who feel that, beginning with 2005's last recording with his then-longstanding Pat Metheny Group, that he'd become too complex, too chops-heavy and too distanced from the accessible music of recordings like Travels (ECM, 1983) and Still Life (Talking) (Nonesuch, 1987). He further distanced himself from a number of his core constituents with Orchestrion (Nonesuch, 2010), and his ...
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