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 MACCHINA DI SUONI JAZZ ORCHESTRA

BIAGIO BENENATO

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 ABOUT

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Macchina di Suoni is an orchestral outfit formed by Marvi La Spina in 1997 to give shape to the ideas of composition and arranging she has been cultivating since several years, honing them during her composition studies with Bill Russo and conduction studies with Gunther Schuller.

The unit has been constantly active through the years, being featured in all main Sicily's concert series, and since 2009 has produced a winter and summer concert series co-operatively with Palermo's cultural association "I Candelai".

Special highlights are the collaborations with American jazz pianist David Kikoski, a featured soloist of Macchina di Suoni during summer 2011 and 2012, as well with drummer Marcello Pellitteri.

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photos by Ross La Ciura

Have been playing with us:

bass: Gabrio Bevilacqua, Luca Lo Bianco, Pietro Ciancaglini, Diego Tarantino, Marko Bonarius, Mauro Cottone, Giuseppe Costa, Igor Ciotta, Vito Morello, Federico Gueci, Gianluca Liberatore, Bino Cangemi, Gianpiero La Malfa | saxophone: David Kikoski, Stefano D'Anna, Mario Raja, Gaspare Palazzolo, Volker Stegmann, Fabrizio Cassará, Orazio Maugeri, Vincenzo Salerno, Rosolino Marinello, Michele Mazzola, Carmelo Sacco, Antonio La Placa, Claudio Giambruno, Francesco Marchese, Daniele Calí, Gian Piero Lo Piccolo, Antonio Grippi, Alfonso Vella, Alessandro Mancuso, Cristiano Giardini, Marcello Ciná, Andrea Mancuso, Francesco Italiano, Fabrizio Maiorana | trumpet: Samuele Daví, Eugenio Tinnirello, Silvio Barbara, Alessandro Presti, Giacomo Tantillo, Giovanni Calderone, Rosario Causa, Aldo Oliveri, Vito Di Falco, Aldo Bertolino, Giovanni Guttilla, Carmelo Salemi, Andrea Barbaría, Daniele Raimondi | piano: David Kikoski, Roberto Brusca | drums: Marcello Pellitteri, Fabrizio Pezzino, Mimmo Cafiero, Giampaolo Terranova, Giuseppe Urso, Flavio LI Vigni, Giuseppe Madonia, Enzo Carpentieri | french horn: Biagio Bennato, Tommaso Santangelo | bass clarinet: Filippo Pizzi | guitar: Fabrizio Brusca, Lorenzo Colella, Sergio Schifano, Leo Grimaudo, Francesco Guaiana, Giuseppe Lo Cascio, Bernardo Viviano, Giovanni Cacioppo | trombone: Giuseppe Mendola, Dalhmar Nur Hussein, Antonello Ceraolo, Salvatore Pizzurro, Salvatore Pizzo, Calogero Ottaviano, Alessandro Di Martino, Fabio Piro, Danilo Montalbano, Salvo Nanía | bass trombone: Roberto Basile, Gianluca Barbaría, Vito Cataldo, Valerio Barrale | tuba: Marco Sala, Gaetano Guzzo | violin: Antonio Macaluso, Marco Badami | cello: Mauro Cottone | voice: Anita Vitale, Carla Marcotulli, Giorgia Crimi, Alejandra Bertolino Garcia, Maddalena Martorana, Chiara Orlando, Carmen Orofino | voice & percussion: Massimo Laguardia