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William Tatge

Born in Umbria, Italy, of American parents, he lived in Todi and Florence until moving to New York City in 2008. Tatge is active in jazz, classical, new and improvised music. He has performed throughout Europe, South America, Japan, Canada and the U.S. in solo piano concerts, leading his groups or as a sideman.

Some of the venues and festivals he has played at include Musicus Concentus in Florence, Imprudences Festival in Paris, Wesleyan University, New York Winter Jazz Fest, New York Italian Institute, and Montreal Jazz Festival. He has also performed in New York clubs such as 55 Bar, Kitano, Smalls, Zinc Bar, The Owl Music Parlor, Korzo, Bowery Electric and Blue Note.

In 2009 Tatge released his first album as a leader, Mutable Enclosures, receiving excellent reviews in All About Jazz and Jazz Review. In 2012 he collaborated with multimedia artist Christine Meisner on Disquieting Nature, a multimedia project dealing with the landscape, history and music of the Mississippi Delta. The work was premiered live at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin during Documentary Forum 2. The film was then screened in many prestigious museums and film festivals around Europe and the U.S. and was favorably reviewed in the New York Times. In 2014 Tatge recorded the album Borderlands with his band Last Call featuring Stefano Tamborrino, Francesco Ponticelli and Dan Kinzelman. The album was released in March 2015 for the Auditorium Parco della Musica label. In 2016 a second collaborative work with Christine Meisner entitled The Freedom Of was premiered at the Taipei Art Biennial in Taiwan. A new trio record entitled General Cargo featuring Pablo Menares and Nick Anderson was released in June 2018 by Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records.

Tatge holds summa cum laude degrees both in Classical Piano and Composition from the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, where he studied with Gabriella Barsotti, Rosario Mirigliano and Romano Pezzati. He studied jazz piano and improvisation with Stefano Bollani, Stefano Battaglia, Franco D’Andrea, Paolo Birro and Enrico Pieranunzi.

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New sounds from Trialogues, Nick Grinder and Marker

Read "New sounds from Trialogues, Nick Grinder and Marker" reviewed by Bob Osborne


New albums from Berlin trio Trialogues, Nick Grinder and Ken Vandermark's Marker plus great piano music from William Tatge and selections from Johannes Enders. In between music old and new. Playlist Trialogues “Samarkand" from Trialogues (Edition64) 00:00 Nick Grinder “New and Happy" fromFarallon (OiM Music) 05:18 Marker “Alphaville #2/Trance/Alphaville #1" from New Industries (Audiographic Records) 12:19 William Tatge Trio “Illegal Machines" from General Cargo (Brooklyn Jazz Underground) 27:42 Johannes Enders “Atmosphere" from Soprano (Pirouet Records) 36:15 Trialogues ...

Album Review

William Tatge: General Cargo

Read "General Cargo" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


General Cargo è il nuovo album in trio del pianista William Tatge, nato in Italia da genitori statunitensi, ed è la sua prima produzione discografica d'oltreoceano, dopo il suo trasferimento a New York alcuni anni orsono (clicca qui per leggere l'intervista che gli abbiamo fatto). Esteriormente il disco è un ritorno al tipo di formazione con cui aveva registrato nel 2009 Mutable Enclosures, primo lavoro a suo nome; di fatto siamo qui di fronte a un'opera complessa e matura, realizzata ...

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Interview

William Tatge, un italiano (di radici americane) a New York

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Nato in Umbria da genitori statunitensi, cresciuto in Italia dove si è diplomato al conservatorio e ha studiato jazz con vari maestri del nostro paese, oltre un decennio fa il pianista e compositore William Tatge ha poi deciso di trasferirsi a New York, dove ha da poco pubblicato un disco in trio, General Cargo, pubblicato dalla Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records. All About Jazz Italia: Tu sei nato in Italia da genitori statunitensi, ti sei formato in Italia, ma ...

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Live Review

William Tatge Last Call al Lyceum di Firenze

Read "William Tatge Last Call al Lyceum di Firenze" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Lyceum Club Internazionale Firenze 26.10.2015 Giovane pianista che oggi vive tra Firenze e New York, William Tatge nato in Italia da genitori americani e nel nostro paese è cresciuto e si è formato musicalmente, pubblicando quest'anno per Parco della Musica il suo primo album, Borderlands, con il suo gruppo Last Call. E con la medesima formazione, un quartetto composto da Dan Kinzelman al sax tenore, Francesco Ponticelli al contrabbasso e Stefano Tamborrino alla batteria, il ...

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Album Review

William Tatge + Last Call: Borderlands

Read "Borderlands" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Il pianista italo-americano William Tatge concepisce il jazz odierno come un laboratorio aperto, dai tratti cameristici che d'improvviso si impennano in vampate melodico-ritmiche di bella tensione, avventurosa, ma sempre controllata. Ascoltando questo Borderlands si coglie una cifra autoriale precisa ma nello stesso tempo una disponibilità a mettersi in gioco valorizzando al massimo il reciproco ascolto tra le voci del quartetto. L'incisione cristallina espone nitidamente il talento assoluto di Dan Kinzelman, Francesco Ponticelli e Stefano Tamborrino, perfetti nell'assecondare ...

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Primary Instrument

Piano

Location

New York City

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

General Cargo

Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
2018

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Borderlands

Edizioni Parco Della Musica
2015

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Mutable Enclosures

Self Produced
2009

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