DESCRIPTION
Stefano Micarelli grew up with the music disease, already at one year his main occupation was tinkering with the 45s of Camaleonti and Rokes (he also listened to the back).
Struck by jazz, he founded several projects where he forced musicians to play his pieces and when he didn’t do it he played the guitar with Harvie Swartz, George Garzone, Massimo Manzi, Eddie Henderson, Bennie Maupin. Secretly and for more than 20 years he has cultivated a passion for musical programming on the computer, which resulted in the partnership with the DJ-producer Roby Colella of “Funky juice rec” and in the project of the Barrio Jazz Gang group known in the European club charts and Not.
Militant in numerous Jazz oriented orchestras, the alto saxophonist Daniele Tittarelli was awarded as best soloist at the “Tremplin jazz 2000” competition in Avignon (France). His flexibility leads him to combine his jazz activity with frequent forays into neighboring territories such as with the techno-pop group I.H.C.
His attachment to his neighborhood ‘Garbatella’ (Rome-Italy-Europe-World) to which he dedicates records and concerts is well known, almost a town-microcosm in the city of which he dreams of one day becoming mayor. Pietro Lussu is the nobleman of the group, his elegant bearing immediately instills a certain awe which however collapses when we sit at the organ where he transforms into a tightrope walking kangaroo. Already alongside Nicola Conte in some of his performances, he currently collaborates as a pianist with Rosario Giuliani with whom he has already done numerous European tours and three CDs.
He was also responsible for the rhythmic-bass support of the band and the “lounge-touch” of the electrophonic organ. In the cellars of Via Veneto and in the afternoon concerts of the tea rooms, Armando Sciommeri was formed. His groove is never obvious or brazen, he has his own ‘sound’ that can be found on any drum kit he plays, even if he prefers to build his own snare drums and toms with woods he has selected and worked with.
His collaborations range across the national and international jazz scene: Eddie Henderson, Scott Reeves, Alfredo Ponissi, Robert Stillman, George Garzone, Tony Scott, Antonello Salis. For a period of his life he lived in Germany where he participated in projects that occasionally saw him return to Munich.