Artist description At the age of eighteen, jazz guitarist Giulio D'Agostino began playing the North Italy club scene. Giulio D'Agostino (also know as 'GD') , who appeared at the Ravensburg International Jazz Festival in Germany, is rapidly becoming one of jazz's finest guitarist. One of the few Italians to place in the 1998 European Most Innovative Guitar Player Poll, GD has already played with greats like Mike Brecker, Bill Stewart, Jonathan Mover, and the Finnish pop star Steven Stewart. GD's wide exposure to listening and playing with many diverse influences has made him a musical chameleon, though he makes the colours his own. "There's no way around it. You have to be influenced by people." said GD. With his trio, GD is free to stretch out his music. The sound is poetic, light in touch and loaded with ideas. "In the trio, everybody has a different perspective on the music about we move onto common ground and follow each other to different places without worrying where it is going. My trio has a costant refresh in the line up, 'cause music is a live thing, when we play is like makin' a child." GD says. Playing with innovative artists - who are often much older and from different cultural backgrounds - GD is sometimes constrained by the music. But the self-effacing GD remains philosophical: "If you play with different people, you begin to appreciate the way they make music and gain a different perspective on it." That perspective is the future of the advancing artist.

Music Style Instrumenal Pop / Jazz

Musical Influences Traditional Jazz, Free Jazz, Latin Music

Similar Artists Pat Metheny Trio, Joe Pass, Miles Davis

Group Members GD (Guitars) - Marco Panascia (UpRight Bass, Electric Bass) - Deon Hairston (Drums & Percussions)

Instruments Guitars, Guitar Synth, UpRight Bass, Drums & Percs

Albums See www.GD78.com

Press Reviews GD is the hottest young jazz player in town. A guitarist, only twenty three years old, he's had solo gigs at Helsinki, New York, Regensburg, Italy, Nice... etc... What's most startling about his playing is that there's not much that's startling about it. His control is remarkable and to find his true talent you have to listen into the music for detail and the most subtle of textures. But if ever there was a young man coming down the pike to scare the older players out there he's it. He already has their attitude - cool, steady, innovative. In time, he'll have their reputations. - Jonathan Mover (Drummer - Producer for Yes, Genesis, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, etc.) Jazz critics have picked up on 23 year old GD's beanpole size, pale youthful face and amazing command of his electric guitar and large repertoire. GD, called in Europe as "one of the largest talents looming on the guitar horizon anywhere" by the Italian Gazette's Corriere Della Sera, is expected to be European's next guitar star. For the quiet musician, though, performing and composing jazz is as natural as brushing his teeth... Composition for him has always been a part of performing since part of jazz is improvisation, which GD calls "instant composition" or "stream of consciousness". "Right now, I'm in a very good period, a very productive period. A lot of opportunities seem to be opening up for me, and everything has sort of been ascending." - Patrick Ferris, Hotbands Magazine's editor, Washington D.C. After a short talking using emails, this young composer from Europe had gived me a copy of his orchestral music score for an Italian film called 'Solitude' ... I have to say that he is a musician with a gentle heart like no one else of the new emergent talents in modern music. - Sir. Arthur C. Clarke, author of "2001: A Space Odissey" and Stanley Kubrick long time collaborator. GD is the hottest young jazz player in town. A guitarist, only twenty three years old, he's had solo gigs at Helsinki, New York, Regensburg, Italy, Nice... etc... What's most startling about his playing is that there's not much that's startling about it. His control is remarkable and to find his true talent you have to listen into the music for detail and the most subtle of textures. But if ever there was a young man coming down the pike to scare the older players out there he's it. He already has their attitude - cool, steady, innovative. In time, he'll have their reputations. - Jonathan Mover (Drummer - Producer for Yes, Genesis, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, etc.) Jazz critics have picked up on 23 year old GD's beanpole size, pale youthful face and amazing command of his electric guitar and large repertoire. GD, called in Europe as "one of the largest talents looming on the guitar horizon anywhere" by the Italian Gazette's Corriere Della Sera, is expected to be European's next guitar star. For the quiet musician, though, performing and composing jazz is as natural as brushing his teeth... Composition for him has always been a part of performing since part of jazz is improvisation, which GD calls "instant composition" or "stream of consciousness". "Right now, I'm in a very good period, a very productive period. A lot of opportunities seem to be opening up for me, and everything has sort of been ascending." - Patrick Ferris, Hotbands Magazine's editor, Washington D.C. After a short talking using emails, this young composer from Europe had gived me a copy of his orchestral music score for an Italian film called 'Solitude' ... I have to say that he is a musician with a gentle heart like no one else of the new emergent talents in modern music. - Sir. Arthur C. Clarke, author of "2001: A Space Odissey" and Stanley Kubrick long time collaborator.)

Location Boston, MA - USA

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