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Daniela Schachter

Daniela Schächter started early her musical career: by her mid-teens was already performing publicly in Sicily, Italy, as well as doing studio session work.

After her classical studies she moved to Boston MA as recipient of a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music, where she studied with Phil Wilson, Joe Lovano, Hal Crook and above all with Joanne Brackeen.

Daniela has won many prestigious awards, such as the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition 2005, The Sister in Jazz Competition 2002, the Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead Competition 2002, the Terri Lyne Carrington Endowed Scholarship, the ‘Tindari 93, Prize’ for the best jazz duo with her brother Davide and also she appeared in the Jazziz magazine collector's CD (July 2001). She was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to the Henry Mancini Institute for one month; there she met Billy Childs her favourite composer. The musicians that had the most influence in her music are Wayne Shorter, Keith Jarrett, Paul McCandless, Thelonious Monk, Bela Bartok, Maurice Ravel.

Daniela has performed at the Brass Group Jazz Festival, the Umbria Jazz Fest, the Cape May Jazz Festival, the Cleveland Jazz Fest with the Rainbow Big Band, the International Trumpet Guilt Conference, the Kennedy Center, the Sarasota Jazz Festival, the Cape Cod Jazz Festival, ‘The Blue Note’ with ‘The Tiger Okoshi Quartet’, the Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops and Patti Austin, the Ravinia Jazz Festival with the Count Basie Big Band and the Hollywood Bowl.

Daniela has performed with John Clayton Jr. and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, John Dankworth, the New York Voices, Terri Lyne Carrington, Patti Austin, Marian McPartland, Regina Carter, Kevin Mahogany, Christian McBride, Ingrid Jensen, Tiger Okoshi, Shirley Horn, Al McKibbon and Phil Wilson among others.

She has also been conducted by Quincy Jones, Patrick Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Clayton Jr., Elmer Bernstein, Bob Brookmeyer, Justin DiCioccio and Phil Wilson.

Daniela Schaechter was guest artist of the prestigious Marian McPartland Piano Jazz radio program in June 2006. She is leading her group in several NYC venues and she was part of the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival 2006 and the Java Jazz Festival 2006. Recently she was featured among the top jazz musicians in NYC in the Japanese Playboy Magazine of October. Her CDs “Quintet” and “I colori del mare” are available on www.cdbaby.com. Her second CD, which features Gene Jackson, Jimmy Greene and Alex Sipiagin among others, has been released with the Italian jazz label Splasc Records.

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Julien Kasper: Julien Kasper

Read "Julien Kasper" reviewed by Jim Worsley


While it can be easier to tell a story through lyrics, words often fall short of the feelings and emotional journey which an artist is choosing to convey. Guitarist Julien Kasper brought together an assemblage of like-minded musicians in order to present seven of his original compositions. At the risk of redundancy the material is indeed original. The compositions are a portrait of a man's soul, captured organically with sentiment, heart, and the benefit of life experiences. Kasper's ...

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Daniela Schächter: Vanheusenism: A Tribute to Jimmy Van Heusen

Read "Vanheusenism: A Tribute to Jimmy Van Heusen" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Italian pianist and singer Daniela Schachter goes into the “songbook" genre on this CD, doing lively spins on the work of songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, a man responsible for more hits than I realized. I knew he had written several songs for Frank Sinatra but until seeing them here, I hadn't realized he also had a hand in standards like “Darn That Dream" and “Here's That Rainy Day." Schachter's voice throughout the set is mature and melodic enough ...

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Daniela Schachter: Vanheusenism: A Tribute To Jimmy Van Heusen

Read "Vanheusenism: A Tribute To Jimmy Van Heusen" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Anybody who's ever adoringly listened to a large number of Frank Sinatra's hits or Bing Crosby's classics is a fan of Jimmy Van Heusen's work, even if they're not familiar with his name. Van Heusen, working alone or with top notch lyricists like Sammy Cahn or Johnny Burke, penned some of the greatest songs of the twentieth century--vehicles of various style and substance that were often immortalized through one of the two aforementioned voices. Italian-born pianist-vocalist Daniela ...

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Daniela Schächter: Vanheusenism: A Tribute to Jimmy Van Heusen

Read "Vanheusenism: A Tribute to Jimmy Van Heusen" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


For the first time, Italian-born vocalist and pianist Daniela Schächter devotes her fourth album to a single songwriter: Jimmy Van Heusen. Even a cursory glance at the song list will show that to be no limitation, as these are some of the most enduring classics in the Great American Songbook. Van Heusen had a long association with Frank Sinatra ("All the Way," “Come Fly With Me"), but his catalog has seen countless performances in pop and jazz: “Darn That Dream," ...

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Daniela Schachter: Purple Butterfly

Read "Purple Butterfly" reviewed by Edward Blanco


A gifted vocalist who just happens to also play the piano quite well, Daniela Schachter conjures up comparisons to the great Diana Krall on Purple Butterfly, an offering of contemporary jazz vocals covered with a bit of honey and a taste of Italy. This Sicilian-born, New York-based artist possesses distinctive high-pitch voice, which she employs on ten alluring songs, voicing lyrics in English and Italian (sung gracefully on the emotive “E Se Domani"). Schachter even serves up a dash of ...

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Daniela Schachter: Il Colori Del Mare

Read "Il Colori Del Mare" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Over the course of many centuries, the island of Sicily has inspired artists from around the world, most recently pianist Daniela Schächter--a Sicilian relocated to the States--whose new release I Colori Del Mare is comprised almost entirely of originals dedicated to her homeland's shoreline. Schächter started her training in Italy and then continued in Boston, studying with Phil Wilson, Joe Lovano, Hal Crook and most significantly pianist Joanne Brackeen. She's since blossomed into a beautifully talented composer ...

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Daniela Schachter: Daniela Schachter

Read "Daniela Schachter" reviewed by J. Robert Bragonier


Just about the time I get discouraged about the future of jazz, a CD like this crosses my path and I am reassured once again. Italian pianist, composer and arranger Daniela Schächter began studying piano at the age of eight, and by her mid-teens she was performing professionally in Italy and Sicily, in addition to session work in the studio. After graduation from the Conservatory in Classical Piano Performance, she taught for a time in Messina, Italy before receiving a ...

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Daniela Schachter Quartet at Dizzys NYC

Daniela Schachter Quartet at Dizzys NYC

Source: Two for the Show Media

Pianist, Vocalist, Composer, & Bandleader Daniela Schachter will be bringing her Quartet to Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola in NYC- from April 21st thru April 25th, 2009

Daniela Schacter Quartet April 21st, 22nd and 23rd Dayna Stevens - saxophones, Oleg Osenkov - bass, EJ Strickland - drums, Daniela Schchter - piano/ vocals.

April 24th and 25th Dayna Stevens saxophones, Oleg Osenkov - bass, Anthony Pinciotti -drums,Daniela Schchter - piano/ vocals.

Daniela Schachter Quartet ...

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Daniela Schachter Quintet @ 55bar Sunday, November 25th 6:00PM-8:30PM

Daniela Schachter Quintet @ 55bar Sunday, November 25th 6:00PM-8:30PM

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services


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Julien Kasper

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2023

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Vanheusenism: A...

Self Produced
2016

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Purple Butterfly

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2009

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Il Colori Del Mare

Splasc(H) Records
2007

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Daniela Schachter

Self Produced
2003

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