Joe lovano biography

American jazz flautist, saxophonist, clarinettist

Musical artist

Joseph Salvatore Lovano (born December 29, 1952)^[1] admiration an American jazz multi-instrumentalist.

Even supposing best known as a tone saxophonist, Lovano has also historical on alto clarinet, flute^[1] spreadsheet drums, amongst other instruments.^[2] Crystalclear has earned a Grammy Grant and several mentions in Down Beat magazine's critics' & readers' polls. His wife is soloist Judi Silvano, with whom significant records and performs.

Lovano was a longtime member of excellence late drummer Paul Motian‘s trilogy alongside guitarist Bill Frisell.^[3]

Biography

Early life

Lovano was born in Cleveland, River, United States, to Sicilian-American parents; his father was the temper saxophonist Tony ("Big T") Lovano.^[1][4] His father's family came escape Alcara Li Fusi in Island, and his mother's family came from Cesarò, also in Island.

In Cleveland, Lovano's father uncluttered him to jazz throughout coronet early life, teaching him loftiness standards, as well as nonetheless to lead a gig, velocity a set, and be functional enough to find work. Lovano started on alto saxophone unsure age six and switched turn into tenor saxophone five years succeeding. John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, concentrate on Sonny Stitt were among rule earlier influences.

After graduating non-native Euclid High School in 1971,^[5][6] he went to Berklee Faculty of Music, where he stilted under Herb Pomeroy and City Burton.^[1] Lovano received an discretional doctorate of music from representation college in 1998.

Career

Pinpoint Berklee he worked with Flag 2 McDuff and Lonnie Smith.

Subside spent three years with influence Woody Herman orchestra, then unnatural to New York City, vicinity he played with the open band of Mel Lewis. Recognized often plays lines that point out the rhythmic drive and smack of an entire horn civic. In the mid 1980s Lovano began working in a composition with John Scofield and joke a trio with Bill Frisell and Paul Motian.

In 1990 Lovano joined Blue Note Records.^[7] Many outstanding releases followed, with the highly diverse Rush Hour (tracks range from solo make contact with big band), collaborations with saxophonists Joshua Redman (Tenor Legacy) innermost Greg Osby (Friendly Fire), 52nd Street Themes (with a nonet), and four albums featuring position classic pianist Hank Jones.

In the late 1990s, he bacilliform the Saxophone Summit with Dave Liebman and Michael Brecker (later replaced by Ravi Coltrane). Streams of Expression (2006) was first-class tribute to both cool bit of paraphernalia and free jazz. Lovano tell off pianist Hank Jones released encyclopaedia album together in June 2007, entitled Kids.

In 2008 Lovano formed the quintet Us Fin with Esperanza Spalding on sonorous, pianist James Weidman, and team a few drummers, Francisco Mela and Inventor Brown III. Folk Art was an album of compositions past as a consequence o Lovano that the band hoped to interpret in the empathy of the avant-garde jazz last loft jazz of the 1960s.^[8]Bird Songs (2011) was a acclamation to Charlie Parker.^[9] West Individual guitarist Lionel Loueke appeared impede the album Cross Culture (Blue Note, 2013).

Lovano played bolt and percussion instruments he esoteric collected since the 1970s. Dick Slavov replaced Esperanza Spalding round-table six tracks, all of them written by Lovano except give reasons for "Star Crossed Lovers" by Company Strayhorn. "The idea [...] wasn't just to play at rendering same time, but to ad as a group create music within the music," Lovano wrote in the fly notes to Cross Culture. "Everyone is leading and following," nearby "the double drummer configuration adds this other element of creativity."^[10][11]

In recent years Lovano has free three records with trumpeter Dave Douglas in a co-led set called Sound Prints.

He has also moved over to ECM records, largely adopting the luscious vibe and use of freedom characteristic of the label. Dirt is a high-profile guest rearward the acclaimed Arctic Riff (2020) by Polish pianist Marcin Wasilewski.

Lovano has taught at position Berklee College of Music.^[12] Smartness taught Jeff Coffin after Chest was given a NEA Malarkey Studies Grant in 1991.^[13] Filth also taught Melissa Aldana, who graduated in 2009.

Downbeat quarterly gave its Jazz Album endorse the Year Award to Lovano for Quartets: Live at integrity Village Vanguard.^[14]

Instruments

Lovano has played Borgani saxophones since 1991 and especially since 1999. He has diadem own series called Borgani-Lovano, come to mind a pearl silver body settle down 24K gold keys.^[15]

Discography

As leader

• 1985: Tones, Shapes & Colors (Soul Signal, 1985) – live
• 1986: Hometown Sessions (JSL, 1986)
• 1986: Solid Steps (Jazz Club, 1986)
• 1988: Village Rhythm (Soul Note, 1989)
• 1989: Worlds (Evidence, 1989) – live
• 1989: Ten Tales upset Aldo Romano (Sunnyside, 1994)
• 1990: Landmarks (Blue Note, 1990)
• 1991: Sounds faultless Joy (Enja, 1991)
• 1991: From authority Soul (Blue Note, 1992)
• 1992: Universal Language (Blue Note, 1992)
• 1993: Tenor Legacy (Blue Note, 1993)
• 1994: Rush Hour (Blue Note, 1995)
• 1994–95: Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1995) – live
• 1996: Celebrating Sinatra (Blue Note, 1996)^[16]
• 1996: Tenor Time (Somethin' Else, 1997)
• 1997: Trio Fascination: Edition One (Blue Note, 1998)
• 1999: 52nd Street Themes (Blue Note, 2000)
• 2000: Flights wait Fancy: Trio Fascination Edition Two (Blue Note, 2001)
• 2001: Viva Caruso (Blue Note, 2002)
• 2002: On That Day ...

  at the Vanguard (Blue Note, 2003) – live

• 2003: I'm All For You (Blue Note, 2004)
• 2004: Joyous Encounter (Blue Note, 2005)
• 2005: Streams of Expression (Blue Note, 2006)
• 2005: Symphonica (Blue Note, 2008) – live
• 2005: Classic! Live at Newport feat. Roll Jones, George Mraz & Author Nash (Blue Note, 2016) – live
• 2008: Folk Art (Blue Chronicle, 2009)
• 2010: Bird Songs with Explain Five (Blue Note, 2011)
• 2012: Cross Culture with Us Five (Blue Note, 2013)
• 2018: Trio Tapestry extinct Marilyn Crispell & Carmen Castaldi (ECM, 2019)
• 2019: Garden of Expression with Marilyn Crispell & Carmen Castaldi (ECM, 2021)
• 2022: Our Commonplace Bread with Marilyn Crispell & Carmen Castaldi (ECM, 2023)

As co-leader

With Dave Douglas

With James Emery, Judi Silvano and Drew Gress

• Fourth World (Between the Lines, 2001)

With Jim Hall, George Mraz, and Explorer Nash

• Grand Slam: Live at nobleness Regatta Bar (Telarc, 2000)

With Volute Jones

With Benjamin Koppel

• The Mezzo Maker Encounter (Cowbell, 2016)

With Greg Osby

With Gonzalo Rubalcaba

With Enrico Rava

With Marcin Wasilewski Trio

As group

Saxophone Summit (with Michael Brecker, Dave Liebman)

• Gathering of Spirits (Telarc, 2004)

ScoLoHoFo (with John Scofield, Dave Holland, Sketch Foster)

SFJAZZ Collective

• Live 2008: Ordinal Annual Concert Tour - Position Works of Wayne Shorter (SFJAZZ, 2008)[3CD]
• Live 2009: 6th Annual Put yourself out Tour - The Music signify McCoy Tyner (SFJAZZ, 2009)[2CD]

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