picture taken by Ciro in the Lithuanian forests

Kowald-me-Marco Franco and Nuno Rebelo in Setubal

Shaved @ barber Fuji saitama

Wataru Matsumoto from Barber Fuji shaves me after the concert with audience watching !!!

Usa Tour April 2005 williasmburg sonatas

Me and dr. Eugene Chadbourne in Greensboro

Melt banana vocalist before the concert in Pittsburgh

The incredible United States of Mind in Indianapolis

Massimo Pupillo in Indianapolis

Audrey Chen, Me and Lukas Ligeti @ the red room in Baltimore

A piano in the dark

Two pics of the coda piano used by Mauro Schiavone in our duet at 5am in the morning in the lands owned by mafia in portella della ginestra and now freed and given to the ass.libera

Shacòr

Ecco la copertina del cd di FullMetal Klezmer SHACOR uscito per el gallo rojo records e disegnata dal mitico Daniel Szekely

Buto performance 2004 @ Sogenji Temple Okayama Japan

Some cd covers

A recent NY appearance at DMG

A nice souvenir from " Peter Kowald a night of music and joy " a festival held in Frankfurt a couple of years
ago. This is the affiche made by Brotzmann showing the group combinations

Concert schedule / CONCERTI 2005 2006

2005
 
January
3rd  Catania ZO New Thing with F.Pagella
7th -3 Great Enigma with L.Lo Bianco and F.Giambanco@ Gatto Nero Pa
11 e 12 duet with Arrington De Dyoniso @ Gatto Nero Palermo
13th Blak Kat @ Brass Group Palermo
18th@ Mikalsa Palermo
20th@ Gatto Nero jazz club
22nd@ Berlin bar Palermo The dark side of jazz
27th@ Gatto Nero jazz club Pa
31th@ Gatto Nero jazz club
 
February
11th hosting jam session Brass Group Jazz Club Palermo
14th Gatto Nero jazz club Palermo
16th Plays Bossa Nova with A.Panicola @ Mikalsa Palermo
18th Rudi mental with Najf @ Arcilesi Palermo
19th with Roy Paci-Luc Ex- C.Actis Dato etc.@ Hiroshima mon amour Torino
22nd with Jimmy Weinstein-F.Guajana @ Gatto Nero
24th Alto Mania with O.Maugeri @ gatto Nero 
March
10th Gianni Gebbia trio@ Gatto nero Pa
15th @ Gatto nero
19th Arcana Maior installation + live solo @ GRIM Marseille France
25th Gatto nero
30th Duet with Mauro Schiavone- Napoli Chiesa Luterana
April
3rd New Thing with Wu Ming 1 plus Switters Cagliari Italy
6th Zuave Jacob with Cristian Calcagnile and Antonio Borghini @libreria acustica Monza
8th Dresden- Zen Widow Blau fabrik
12th Zurich CH - Zen Widow - Wim
15th Wuppertal Church Zen Widow
16 Koln- Zen Widow
23 with Lukas Ligeti and Audrey Chen @ Red Room Baltimore Usa
Starts The Williasmburg Sonatas Usa Tour:
24th @ Stonehouse New York City Usa
25th Philadelphia @Slought Foundation Usa
26th Pittsburg
28th Bloomington Indiana
29th Indianapolis
30th Chicago @3030
May
1st Louisville
2nd Atlanta @ eyedrum
3rd Athens @ Flicker theatre
4rth Greensboro @Gate city noise
8th New York City duo with Audrey Chen Cave of the tigers @ Downtown Music Gallery
11th -  Non euclidean variations 1 (The music of Eric Zann) with Lukas Ligeti@ ANGELICA festival Bologna
June
17th Torino with Simone Bosco and Domenico Caliri
July
1st with Shatadoo @ Festival dei teatri S.Arcangelo di Romagna
2nd with Shatadoo Mestre (Venezia)
4th Blak Kat @ Villa del Pigno Palermo Ass. Amici della Musica
5th Duo with Dominique Regef - hurdy gurdy @ Kalsart Summer festival Palermo
7th Brass Group Spasimo palermo 4rtet
15th Mega Zu Torino tbc
17th duo with M.Schiavone @ Portella della Ginestra
24th plays for lovers @ easymalox
30th MegaZu @ Orsara jazz festival feat.M.Gustaffsson,Zu, Gianni Gebbia etc.
August
7th   plays for lovers @easymalox Palermo
10th with CliffKorman Ensemble Villa Celimontana Roma
19th Castelbuono jazz festival Sicilian jazz summit
21st Switters @ pata pata Sampieri (Ragusa)
22rd Switters@ Opera universitaria Palermo
25th Williasmburg Sonatas @ Mulhouse Jazz festival Mulhouse FRANCE
30th guest with E.Randisi quartet Geraci Siculo
31st Private concert
September
6th Plays for Lovers @ easymalox Palermo
9th guest with G.Rosciglione quartet p.zza Matteotti Palermo
11th Rudi mental with dj naif @ dep. locomotive S.Erasmo Palermo
14th provate concert Mondello
26- 30 workshop in Alcamo
October
7th Palermo tbc
11th with Simone Bosco @ paglia e fieno Torino
12 Gorizia with S:Bosco @ clandestino csoa
13 Trieste with Simone Bosco Casa delle culture
16th with Simone Bosco's Divine Comedy Torino (Stalker teatro)
19th Enea e Didone with Iaia Forte Daniele Camarda and Tommaso Ragno Palermo Nuovo Montevergini
November
December
11th Osaka Beyond Innonce festival Japan
 
2006
January
26th Cagliari teatro alfieri New Thing , Switters + F.Pagella
30th @ Porgy and bess Wien Austria with Williamsburg Sonatas
February
2nd Contemporary Art Museum Strasbourg with Williamsburg Sonatas
6th plays for lovers Messina accademia filarmonica
from the 9th CAVE OF THE TIGERS EUROPEAN TOUR with Audrey Chen cello and voice
10th famalicao Portugal
11th Zdb Lisbona
12 Roma al cantiere nell'isola
13 catania @ mammuth
14 palermo gatto nero
15 Parma
16 Torino Soundtown
17 Torino Coop L'incontro
18 Hybridaspace tarcento udine
21 Ort Wuppertal Germany
22 St Luke academy Bruxelles
23 Tonne - Dresden
28 @ Gatto Nero palermo with L.Lo Bianco bass and F.Cusa drums
March
6th with Carlo Natoli and Francesco Cusa @ Mammuth Catania
9th with Blak kat @ Gatto Nero palermo
10th @ Bix Club trapani trio with luca Lo bianco and Francesco Cusa
12th @ gatto nero Palermo with Lino Costa guitar and Mimmo Cafiero drums
14th with MLUK in Torino World Olympic Games for handicap people
from the 16th ZEN WIDOW Usa tour East Coast
29th Banlieues Bleues paris france with ramon Lopez drums and dominique regef hurfy gurdy
April
May
from 10 to 15th with Butch Morris Bologna conduction- Angelica
26th @moramora Palermo Collettivo Cuper Santos
June
8th duet with R.Lo Bue Gela
9th The dark side of jazz with dj Verga Ustica Island
14th Switters Mogliano Veneto
15th Switters @ Bolzano jazz Festival
16th Switters @ Dobia Lab Staranzano (Trieste)
18th 2 tolreance with dj max ferraresi Marina Romea Ravenna
July
9th festival Jazz a Luz france with ramon Lopez and Dominique Regef
14th with Ramon Lopez and dominique Regef- Assier Festival France
16th Cuper Santos @ tonnara addaura Palermo
21st Quartet Enea e Didone Caltanissetta feat. F.Guajana guitars
23rd Quartet enea e Didone in Selinunte (Ag)
28th Quartet with iaia Forte Tommaso Ragno and Daniele Camarda Cagliari
29th Quartet Cagliari
31st duo with Salvatore Bonafede on piano (tba)
August
4th Quartet Napoli (tba)
13th Omaggio a Enzo Randisi - Mondello (Pa)
23rd Cuper Santos - Brolo Estate (Messina)
25th Festival Musica per gli occhi Atrio di Palazzo Bonagia Palermo- G.Gebbia-F.Cusa-L.Lo Bianco
sonorizzazione di Un Chien Andalou di S.Dalì et L.Bunuel
27th Musica per gli Occhi: Mederic Collignon -trumpet and el.- Ramon Lopez drums-Gianni Gebbia sax
28th Musica per gli Occhi: Gianni Gebbia- Daniele Camarda
29th Musica per gli Occhi: Gianni Gebbia Solo on Inaugurazione della Ferrotramviaria Palermo Mondello
by F:Bronzetti 1912
September
6th- G.Gebbia 4rtet - Kursaal Tonnara Vergine Maria Palermo
8th- Cuper Santos Csoa Ex Carcere Palermo
October
Japan Tour
Tokyo solo and duo with Kazuo Imai guitar and Tamura san trumpet
Chiba Candy duo with keiki Midorikawa
Tokyo Nishiogikubo Guest solist with Gegegege Orchestra
Duet with Masafumi Ezaki trumpet @ Bridge Osaka
Trio with Masafumi Ezaki trumpet and shinichi Isohata Osaka
21st - duet with Tatsuya Yamamoto (drums) Indoyu- Hofu City -Japan
22nd - solo-duets with Katsura Yamauchi (saxophones) and T.Yamamoto (drums) Oita - Kyushu Japan
24th Fukuoka New Combo: duet with Jinmei drums plus gg solo
30th Solo and duo with Koij Akada saxophone @ Iwatowake Musc Festival in Okayama
November
December
1st Recording with Shinichi Isohata @ Big Apple Kobe
Solo and duo concert with S.Hisohata guitar @ Chef D`oeuvre Osaka
 
2007
 
January
14th Solo and duo concert with Lino Costa guitar @ Mikalsa Palermo
21 duo with Sergi Jorda laptop @ Ersu Opera Universitaria palermo
22 Quartet @ Art and jazz Cafe` Catania
23 Quartet @ Art and jazz Cafe` Catania
 
February
March
April
May
June
July
October
November
December

Il Viaggio Clandestino

Il Diavolo s'innamora. Gesù non torna in Paradiso. Folli storie di anime confuse...

IL VIAGGIO CLANDESTINO
Vite di Santi e Peccatori

Surreale (Italia 1994)
Col. 60'

Regia Raùl Ruiz
Soggetto Raùl Ruiz
Fotografia Francois Ede, Renaud Personaz
Musica Gianni Gebbia, Miriam Palma, Vittorio Villa

Interpreti
Marco Cavicchioli, Marco Manchisi, Enzo Moscato, Enzo Vetrano

Gesù non è tornato in cielo. Si nasconde. Non si sa da chi, da cosa. Perché. Forse deve celarsi dallo sguardo dei messaggeri alati, dalla ricerca angelica. Mentre San Gil, si convince di aver trovato un partner spirituale, nel peccatore incallito Ciccio Bavaria. Ma questa schiera promiscua di buoni e cattivi è capitanata da un'altra follia: il demonio. Il diavolo in persona, infatti, si comporta in modo strano. Pare abbia perso la testa. Tentato com'è, dalle grazie di una mangiatrice di spaghetti...

E' un film surreale. Una pellicola incentrata sui non sense.
Girato in Sicilia con un budget ridotto, questo film ha il merito di mostrare suggestive immagini mediterranee. Dietro la macchina da presa, l'abilità avanguardistica del regista Raùl Ruiz, vincitore nel 1997 dell'Orso d'Argento alla carriera, del Film Festival di Berlino. E' la sua settantaquattresima pellicola, dall'esordio nel 1960 con La Maleta.
Sito RaiUno | Indietro | Sito RaiDue


© COPYRIGHT 1997-2001 RAI

MUSIC SAMPLES

To listen to some short samples please go to www.amazon.com and look for Gianni Gebbia and there you will found some music from my cd's

per ascoltare qualche estratto della mia musica andate su www.amazon.com e cercate il mio nome e troverete dei samples dai alcuni dei miei dischi.

Found on the internet: a discussion about sax solos from the website www.bagatellen.com

In a recent Bags thread some comments surfaced about Brian Morton's recent Wire article on solo reed and brass recordings (The Primer: Lone Horns). One of my most beloved topics, I had to pick up a copy of the reliable UK mag and read it for myself. Just fresh from soaking up Morton's controversial overview, I've got some thoughts I'm aching to share. Instead of inserting them into the tangled morass of that Bags thread, I figured everyone's interests would be better served by fashioning a clean and tidy new home for them here. So what I've done is paste all the comments on Morton's piece from that thread into this text object for convenient reference and add a few of my own, with the hopes that this will serve as a perspicuous convocation on the topic of solo music for wind instruments that will offer informal augmentation for Morton's immensely valuable formal survey and a convenient opportunity for everyone to fully vent their gripes about its puzzling omissions.


In the case of Gianni Gebbia, whose work I've become increasingly enamored of in recent years to the point he'd easily make my saxophone top ten, I believe the developments in his alto sax vocabulary revealed in 1997's H Portraits and most vividly on 2000/2001's Arcana Major/Sonic Tarots Session are somewhat more germane than the mid-90s recording Body Limits that Morton selected.

In terms of the radicalism of his aesthetic innovations, I'd only cite Evan Parker and Michel Doneda as peers to Mats Gustafsson in the history of the saxophone. His new baritone solo disc Catapult, should've been cited, considering the profound and underdocumented developments in the years intervening between this 2005 recording and the 1996 recording Impropositions that Morton left to represent such an actively expanding player all by itself. Catapult is one the best solo saxophone records I've ever heard. Period. Also, Morton's blurb on Impropositions beats around the bush, nay, forest, of Gustafsson's radical expansion of possibilities for saxophone. It entirely fails to give even a faint hint of the content of the disc; I mean "fiery intensity"? Come on, there's a bucketload of saxophonists better slighted with that phrase and there's a lot more happening in Gustafsson's solo music, that disc and otherwise, than fiery intensity! The exact opposite of fiery intensity, for starters. By the way, Gustafsson has a new solo disc on slide saxophone, surely a first of its kind, and while I haven't scored a copy yet, I did see him do an earth-shattering extended solo on the extremely rare instrument a few months during a Brötzmann Tentet gig.

Morton's entry on Brötzmann is not only fabulously on-the-money, but rather witty as well!

Only one entry apiece for trumpet and clarinet? Absurd, of course, but more on the trumpet thing below when I get to my BIG GRIPE.

In terms of format for the primer, I find it odd that Morton lists three Roscoe Mitchell solo albums, at least one of which he doesn't seem to be even recommending at all, while offering entries for other musicians that omit masterpieces well worthy of a vigorous recommendation to curious listeners, as in the cases of John Butcher, Michel Doneda, GIANNI GEBBIA, and Ned Rothenberg. It's a frustrating inconsistency of treatment.

Gianni and Audrey @ Coma /New York City
Cave of the tigers first concert

GOING INTO THE CAVE OF THE TIGERS NEEDS THE COURAGE OF UNCERTAINTY

The Williasmburg Sonatas

Gianni Gebbia
"Arcana Major / Sonic Tarots Session"
(StereoSupremo/Rastascan, Objet-a Series # 2 STS008, 2001)
   
Ogni improvvisazione in questo progetto rappresenta una diversa carta delle ventidue dell’Arcana Maggiore. Per avere un vernacolo da una singola carta occorre porre un quesito, mettere sul proprio lettore la funzione random e aspettare quel che la sorte ci ha riservato. Noi abbiamo preferito un meno superstizioso ascolto in senso diacronico, per non sfidare il caso in merito a un’innocua recensione. I tarocchi di Gianni Gebbia ispirano ventidue improvvisazioni per sax alto e sopranino in Mi bemolle, che nella loro epigrammaticità e varietà di colori trovano le loro qualità migliori. Un’idea accattivante per proporre in modo meno serioso un set di composizioni estemporanee, che mettono in evidenza il ricco bagaglio tecnico del musicista siciliano: grande ventaglio di suoni, padronanza e controllo dello strumento, idee compositive e cantabilità. I modelli presi a prestito non sono soltanto i tanti radicali europei. All’ascolto delle ventidue tracce possono venire in mente alcune diverse tradizioni mediterranee e tutti quei vari repertori strumentali per launeddas, zourna e gaida, ance popolari di Sardegna, Turchia e Balcani. Ma i referenti possono essere molti di più. L’ascoltatore può interrogare l’oracolo.

© altremusiche.it / Michele Coralli

European Tour
from February 10th 2006

CAVE OF THE TIGERS
AUDREY CHEN cello and voice (Baltimore Usa)
GIANNI GEBBIA alto sax and objects (Palermo Italy)

RECORDINGS:
Japanese Basement Carbonara
guest : Tatsuya Nakatani percussions

Copy on request to: www.giannigebbia.com


AUDREY CHEN
cello and voice

Using her trusty cello, self-styled vocal techniques and ever surprising
content/concepts, Audrey Chen has emerged as one of the most vital free-
improvisors on the United States and beyond. Her approach to improvisation and
performance is extremely visceral. She utilizes traditional and extended
technique in order to create a hybrid language that pushes the boundaries of
both instruments. These two combined with an unusually strong sense of
movement, sound and space, contribute to the constantly fresh depth of her
experimentation. She graduated at the Peabody College in Baltimore.
Many of her performances incorporate both aural and visual components,
utilizing sculpture, movement and sound. Her dance collaborations
have involved artists such as Cathy Paine, Leah Stein, Maida Withers and Naoko
Maeshiba. Among musicians, she has worked with many great improvisers,
including Katt Hernandez, Jack Wright, Tatsuya Nakatani, Assif Tsahar, Scott
Rosenberg, Le Quan Ninh, Joe Mcphee, Susan Alcorn, Peter Jaquemyn, Michele
Doneda, Lukas Ligeti,Paolo Angeli, Gianni Gebbia and many others.
She has also recently formed an ongoing duo with percussionist, Tatsuya Nakatani
Cave of the Tigers with italian saxophone player Gianni Gebbia. Some recent performances
include site specific works in Bytom, Poland, and in Arkhangelsk and Solovki, Russia,
the High Zero Festival (Baltimore, MD) and the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC),
Sidney Australia and New Zealand.

GIANNI GEBBIA
saxophone

" The italian saxophone player Gianni Gebbia is a homo novus on the free music scene.
He has a brilliant tecnique and uses different reeds instruments special mouthpieces and overtones singing inside the body of the saxophone.His playing is going all trough the history of saxophone:fast be boppish licks, cool gestures and strange sounds are coming out of his instrument in a clear and effortless way.
A name to keep in our minds for the future."

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