Biography of Catley
the February 8, 1985 in Turin,
Catley is an Italian guitarist and composer-considered one of the greatest exponents in the modern jazz scene. It won several awards as Best Guitarist and Best Artist according to magazines and international competitions such as Umbria Jazz Festival, Jazz, Guitarlist and Italian Top Jazz Guitar. Dario is host of important jazz festivals in Europe and the United States, and regularly appears in the most famous jazz club club in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, England, Scotland. He began his career as a musician really early, at the tender age of fourteen, when she receives her first professional engagement. In a very early stage of his career in rock formations blues electric guitarist Dario works as collaborating with artists, mainly Italian. During high school years meets jazz thanks to listening to Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and historic backbone of language of jazz and bebop. Since then falls in love with the jazz and improvisation to such an extent as to become in a few years a new Italian jazz guitar wunderkind.
Dario, early twenties he collaborated with jazz musicians like Flavio Boltro and Furio Di Castri and began collecting a rich and prestigious discography both as a leader and as a sideman. Affect his guitars for the compilation made in Switzerland-Six Strings-in 2008, 2009 and 2010 publications. Register with the Torino Jazz Lab of Furio di Castri, along with Bruno Tommaso and Javier Girotto. In 2010 takes part in a international project of latin jazz, releasing the album "Proposition" along with the Cuban bassist Dany Noel Martinez, drummer Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, pianists Ivan Bridon and Ivan Lewis, trumpeter Carlos Sanduy, the worldwide star Concha Buika and together with other important icons of the Latin world as as Ramon Porrina, Jerry González, Inoidel González, Javier "Caramelo" Masso Fernando Favier, Diego Guerrero, Ivette Falcón Ugarte, Daniel Martínez Miranda.
In the same year he recorded disc with the project modern jazz Kabel, in collaboration with the Italian trumpeter John Falzone. In the 2011 project of bassist Dany Noel realizing the hard Solid Unida. In 2012-along with guitarist/bassist Nico Di Battista-Italian manufactures a special collection of songs of the Italian tradition, revisited in jazz. The project is called the Rewriting Songs, whose meaning is to reinterpret, rewrite and reinvent themes, melodies and harmonies of those famous catchphrases. Among the song choices, appear on the album: W la mamma, write me, summer, Parlami d'amore Mariù, doll, General, for an hour of love, Week one day and again. In 2013 writes 4 hands an original project italo-Cuban called Confidence-in collaboration with bassist Dany Noel Martinez. Together affect the first album "Confidence" and have the disc in the most important European festivals of jazz and world music.
The duo Chiazzolino-Noel is defined by the international jazz critics as one of the most interesting musical projects of the last 15 years. Affect the album Paint your Life, in collaboration with a band that includes the pianist Taylor Eigsti, the drummer Willie Jones III and bassist Marco Panascia. The disc had a strong impact on the public and the critics. According to the famous and historic American magazine Guitar World, Catley is recognized as one of the best jazz guitarists of the modern scene, thanks to its original vision of improvisation, always unpredictable and looking towards the future. Serves as the project leader Principles Sound with the legendary members of Yellow Jackets: Bob Mintzer, Russell Ferrante and Jimmy Haslip. Together they publish the album "Lost in the Jungle", followed by a tour of the Yellow Jackets for the hard Timeline. He recorded concept album Red Cloud for the record label Tukool records-with pianist Antonio Faraò Italian and the French Dominique Di Piazza on electric bass and Manhu Roche on drums.
Catley has also worked in studio and live with artists such as Dave Liebman, Andy Sheppard, Aaron Goldberg, Billy Cobham, Russell Ferrante, William Kennedy, Jason Rebello, Rick Stone, Felix Pastorius and Julio Barreto. As Professor of jazz guitar has held master classes in Italy, Europe and the United States cooperating with many prestigious educational facilities such as the Long Island Conservatory of Music and the Long Island Academy in New York, with The Lizard and theAccademia di Musica Moderna. Catley was born and raised in Turin and earned a Bachelor's degree in Jazz music with full marks from the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi of Turin.
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