Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet
Biographie Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet
About Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet
The philosophy of this new musical adventure of Paolo Fresu born at the end of 2003, after the fortunate success of the famous “Angel Quartet”. Joking around the name, “Devil” is born right in opposition with the old experience, but nothing can be compared with the “Angel” years. “Devil” was only the first logical answer to the question: “Which name?”
In the same way of Angel, the new quartet is born with the peculiarity to be an “international combo”. Paolino Dalla Porta and Bebo Ferra are old musical friendship of Paolo, active and re-active in the close past of the Italian jazz. Paolo met Morten Lund in Göteborg (Sweden) during the 2000 edition of the “Nordic Meeting”, in a group with the Nordic piano player Lars Jansson.
The sound of the group is surely more “acoustic” than other experiences of Paolo but filtered through the electronics ways of Paolo and Bebo, who often uses the acoustic guitar, too. The “live-program” is a real modern encyclopaedia of modern sounds, with several original composition and revisited standards. It is “jazz”, mainly, but surely “melange” with deep and modernized philosophies
Paolo Fresu
Award winner, internationally acclaimed Sardinian trumpet player Paolo Fresu has performed around the world over the past 30 years. With a track record of 300 recordings so far, Fresu has worked with musicians such as John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen, Gerry Mulligan, David Liebman, Dave Holland, Richard Beirach, John Zorn, John Abercrombie, Helen Merril, Ralph Towner, Richard Galliano, Michel Portal, Trilok Gurtu, Jeanne Lee, Gunther Schüller, Paul McCandless, Jim Hall, Lew Soloff, Uri Caine, Gil Evans Orchestra, Toots Thielemans, Omar Sosa, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Andy Sheppard, Nguyen Le, Enrico Rava, Antonello Salis, Enrico Pieranunzi, Giorgio Gaslini, Glen Ferris.
Fresu is also professor and artistic director of internationally renowned jazz festivals such as Time in Jazz and Nuoro Jazz.
He is involved in the production of numerous multimedia projects, cooperating with actors, dancers, painters, sculptors, and poets, as well as writing music for film, documentary, video, ballet, and theater pieces.
His ‘A Solo’ concert at the Auditorium in Rome totally enchanted an audience of 3,000 people Fresu has been involved in involved in numerous projects, which have taken him all over the world for more than 200 concerts a year.
In 2011 he was back in UK for a tour with Ralph Towner and their new acclaimed project ‘Chiaroscuro’ (ECM 2010). In 2013 he'll be back in the States with Omar Sosa (with Trilok Gurtu in UK, too) and Uri Caine in different tour and in Europe with Brass Bang!, an extraordinary all horns and all stars quartet with Gianluca Petrella, Steven Bernstein and Marcus Rojas.
Fresu is based in Paris, Bologna and Sardinia. His unique trumpet sound is recognized as one of the most distinctive in the contemporary jazz scene.
