Rosario Giuliani - sax
Flavio Boltro - tr
Roberto Tarenzi - p
Darryl Hall - b
Benjamin Henocq - dr
As a mature twelve year old, Rosario Giuliani was studying the achievements of the US jazz genius Charlie Parker. Three decades later, young Italian musicians mention Giuliani's name more often than they do Parker's.
Rosario shows originality at every step-both in his approach to jazz standards, and his own melodies, exhibiting the freshest sound that the European jazz scene has offered over the past decade. The Italian saxophonist hears such compliments ever more often, and his achievements attest to his skilfulness..
In 1997, at the European Jazz Contest in Belgium, Giuliani's quartet was lauded as the best group and he himself was awarded the best soloist award. Western Europe thereby heard about the musician, who was already familiar to music lovers back home.
Naturalness, lightness, a combination of European romanticism and the power of American jazz-these were epithets describing Giuliani's career, highlighted by many impressive solo albums and joint projects with stars in various genres.
Dozens of composers, including the legendary Italian Ennio Morricone, invited Rosario to lend his talent to film sound tracks. Jazz celebrities, such as Wheeler, Bob Mintzer (from the group Yellowjackets), Bireli Lagrene, Enrico Rava, Richard Galliano, and Guy Barker chose this Italian saxophonist to partner them in the studio. When, in 2005, the legendary US bassist Charlie Haden and the Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba were creating the conceptual project Land Of The Sun, Giuliani was also invited to take part.
In 2000, the Musica Jazz magazine voted him the most impressive new talent of the year. In the same year Rosario started a collaboration with the influential French record company Dreyfus Jazz. His albums Luggage (2001), Mr Dodo (2002), and More Than Ever (2004) earned him ever growing recognition. Currently, Rosario Giuliani is even compared by the critics to such legendary saxophonists as Art Pepper, John Coltrane, and Julian Cannonball Adderley.
Audiences at Umbria (Italy), North Sea (Holland), Ankara (Turkey), and other famous jazz festivals have witnessed Rosario's skill. There is no better time for Lithuania to hear the musician, praised for mixing European and US jazz traditions, than when Vilnius is the European Capital of Culture.
