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Fabio Morgera
Fabio Morgera is a Grammy nominated trumpeter , composer and arranger well known around the world for his achievements in Jazz and contemporary music . He has played in the most important Jazz Festivals of the world including: JVC New York, Montreaux, Nice, North Sea, UmbriaJazz, Montreal, Madarao. Theatres and clubs including Town Hall, Symphony Space , the Apollo, Blue Note (New York, Tokyo and Nagoya), Birdland, BBKing's, Irving Plaza, New Morning (Paris, France) Paradiso (Amsterdam, Netherlands). He has shared the stage with legends such as Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Jackie McLean, Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins, Tony Williams. Also played with the Mingus Big Band, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Groove Collective, Roy Hargrove Big Band, Butch Morris, JD Allen, Alvin Queen, Steve Turre, Victor Lewis, Valery Ponomarev Big Band, Jason Lindner Big Band, Urban Tap, Maxwell, Jovanotti. He has recorded and produced over 30 albums , many of which as a leader of smaller and larger ensembles like his own Natural Revolution Orchestra.
Awards
Grammy Nomination with Groove Collective for Best Contemporary Jazz Album 2006
2nd prize at the Barga Big Band Arranging Competition Barga, Italy, 1988
2nd prize at the Leverkusen Jazz Competition for Newcomers Leverkusen, Germany 1982
Gear
Shilke B1, Monnette B2
Tags
Dida Pelled: A Missing Shade Of Blue
by Dan Bilawsky
In a way, A Missing Shade Of Blue is a throwback to an earlier era, when Grant Green, “Brother" Jack McDuff, Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith, and numerous others were bringing the guitar and organ together to create beautiful music for the people. Yet this record doesn't necessarily fit with the work of those artists. Why, you ask? Well, for one, we live in a different time. But the era isn't necessarily the crux of the matter. The scope of ...
read moreFabio Morgera: tradizione e progresso
by Angelo Leonardi
Tornato a vivere in Italia alcuni anni fa, dopo un lungo periodo di studio e attività professionale negli Stati Uniti, Fabio Morgera è uno dei massimi trombettisti della sua generazione e s'è imposto per lo stile estroverso, caratterizzato da intenso feeling e marcato groove. Eclettico per natura, alla leadership in progetti di taglio contemporaneo—anche intrisi di funk e hip hop--ha affiancato omaggi ai valori fondanti del jazz moderno. In quest'intervista parliamo di molte cose, iniziando col suo nuovo album dedicato ...
read moreDida Pelled: A Missing Shade of Blue
by C. Michael Bailey
Guitarist and vocalist Dida Pelled previous Red Records release, Dida Pelled: Plays and Sings (Red Records, 2011) was one of my pics for Best-of-the-Year in 2011). That recording was so refreshingly organic that it has remained in my listening rotation since that time. Pelled snuck in a self-produced Modern Love Songs (2015) between Plays and Sings and the present A Missing Shade of Blue. It is as exceptional as the first recording. That said, expectations for A Missing Shade of ...
read moreFabio Morgera and Turbulence at Fat Cat
by Mary Williams
Fabio Morgera and TurbulenceFat CatNew York, New York The trumpeter and composer Fabio Morgera brought warmth to a genre better known for being cool, as he led his “freejazzfunk" band, Turbulence, through hushed moments and energetic surges of music. His music was upbeat and daring--the kind of music that doesn't want to be kept up with. Jazz often feels like a thing of the past, something delicate that cultured New Yorkers occasionally dust off ...
read moreFabio Morgera: Neapolitan Heart
by C. Michael Bailey
Trumpeter/producer Fabio Morgera's first album release was Take One (Red Records) in 1988. Hailing from Naples and in 2010 a New York City resident, Morgera recorded several notable collections in the 1990s and 2000s. As a leader Slick (Red Records, 1999) and Colors (Red Records, 2002); as a sideman J.D. Allen's In Search Of (Red Records, 1999); and with the Red Stars collective Red Stars (Red Records, 2004). Morgera also produced In Search Of and Pablo Bobrowicky's New York Connections ...
read moreFabio Morgera: Colors
by C. Michael Bailey
Faaaaaaabio has a chromatic fantasy...
Fabio Morgera released his Red Records' debut, Slick , in 1999. That recording boasted a fully formed brass style for the trumpeter/flugelhornist. On that recording, Morgera directed a little-big band and he has continued that trend on his new Red Records' release, Colors. Colors is very much a concept album filled with tasty post bop and contemporary pieces, all composed, arranged, and performed at the highest level. Morgera's tone and attack have broadened and his ...
read moreFabio Morgera: Slick
by C. Michael Bailey
Fab-ba-ba-ba-bio!. Slick is a brand-spanking new release from Sergio Veschi's Red Records. It is a disc in keeping with both his goals of capturing only the top-drawer of jazz and documenting Italian jazz musicians. Fabio Morgera is a talented trumpeter/flugelhornist who has assembled an exceptional medium sized group of his fellow countrymen. Morgera and his group play a smart accessible brand of Hard/Post Bop that is full of life and invention whether an up-beat barn- burning blues ...
read more"Morgera's focus is tight and clear on Neapolitan Heart, and the album is enhanced by his considerable production talent and his wispy melodic sense." Michael.C. Bailey, All About Jazz "Morgera is an excellent instrumentalist and most of his tunes leave a lasting impressions." —Ken Dryden, All Music Guide "An excellent post-bop trumpeter with a flexible style, Fabio Morgera has been gaining more recognition lately due to his versatility" Scott Yanow, "Trumpet Kings". "Morgera is, in the vernacular, a talent deserving of more attention. He is no Miles Davis rip-off, being as much his own musician as alto saxophonist Art Pepper was in the shadow of Charlie Parker
Primary Instrument
Trumpet
Location
Florence
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
Credentials/Background
Morgera is a dedicated teacher of trumpet, improvisation and music in general. Since the beginning of his long performing career he has enjoyed sharing his knowledge of the instrument and of the art of improvisation . He has written his first Method for Improvisation for all instruments ( published in 2008) and he is planning to write more. He is very patient and understanding in dealing with any difficulties his pupils might encounter, and as a result they always enthusiastically overcome them.
Languages: English, Spanish, Italian
fee: $50 per hour EDUCATION
Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Italy 1981-84
Diploma in Solfege, Conservatory of Livorno, Italy 1983
Diploma in Commercial Arranging, Dick Grove School, Los Angeles 1986-87
Diploma in Performance, Berklee College of Music, Boston 1988- 1990
Diploma in Advanced Brass Master Class with Allen Vizzutti, Santa Fiora, Italy 2008
Private lessons with: Uan Rasey, former lead trumpet of the Metro Goldwin Meyer Orchestra Vince Penzerella, New York Philarmonic and Jazz greats Donald Byrd, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Wheeler, Enrico Rava
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