Artist description Acoustic guitarist Simone Guiducci & his Gramelot .A mix between Folk and contemporary jazz.

Music Style Original mixture between North-Italy Folk music and Jazz

Artist History Italian acoustic guitarist SIMONE GUIDUCCI is back with a new record, Chorale, again accompanied by the brilliant and inseparable Gramelot Ensemble along with a clutch of guest musicians familiar from the international jazz scene (Ralph Alessi, Erik Friedlander,Chris Speed). Chorale marks a significant step on in Guiducci's pursuit of folk/jazz hybrid forms, a quest he has been on for several years now and which his previous album, the delightful Cantador showed to be rich in potential. The dialogue gets sharper and tighter on Chorale, opening out onto new horizons. Much more stress is placed on the collective dimension of music making, yet without clouding out the beauty mined by each individual player. To bring together the ancient and modern, the regional and international is Guiducci's stated aim. A hard task in anybody's book, yet the combination of experience and musical sensibility allow him to negotiate these treacherous currents without drowning in a storm of witless fusak. GUIDUCCI selects his themes and structures with care, surrounding himself with a group of players who are up to the toughest of challenges. But his role as director takes nothing away from his own qualities as a musician, as he demonstrates in the string of limpid solos that punctuate the record. Simone Guiducci's music defines its own world, but it also reflects the one in which we live. Like playwright-actor Dario Fo, whose literary gramelot, Mistero Buffo, mixes old dialects and modern language to rework medieval mystery plays, Guiducci's Gramelot Ensemble synthesizes ancient and modern musical languages-the folk music of northern Italy and jazz. In both cases, the result is art whose truths transcend time and define our humanity. Accordionist Gianni Coscia (with whom Guiducci has recorded) calls musical fusions such as Guiducci's-"imaginary folklore." Imaginary folk music acknowledges the beauty and truth of a culture's folk traditions while allowing the modern imagination to take liberties with forms that, by nature, change slowly. Whatever you call it, Guiducci's music blends the best elements of a collectively defined regional culture with the individual expression of jazz".

Group Members Simone Guiducci acoustic guitar,Roberto Dani percussion,Salvatore Majore doublebass,Achille Succi bass clarinet , Fausto Beccalossi accordion; Ralph Alessi trumpet; Chris Speed clarinet ; Erik Friedlander cello ; Maria Pia De Vito vocals ;Nicolas Simion soprano sax.

Instruments Simone Guiducci acoustic guitar,Roberto Dani percussion,Salvatore Majore doublebass,Achille Succi bass clarinet , Fausto Beccalossi accordion

Albums 2000 Cantador ; 2002 Chorale

Additional Info Chorale was 2° in KSZU-Standford University -Radio Charts Jazz for july 2003

Location Castiglione, Mantova - Italy

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