Album Notes

This quartet comes from years of playing jazz together, sharing an interest in hard bop, including the less popular composers. This passion matured and developed in their Cluzon Big Band project, where they discovered diverse arrangers as well as performers. A repertoire of original songs ensued. This wonderful musical journey was truly a group effort.

Andrea Rapaggi
This guitarist, composer and arranger has played jazz guitar since 1986. He studied with Pino Russo, Gianni Negro, Andrea Allione, Enrico Rava and Francis Coletta.
He has taught guitar since 1991 at several music institutes in Torino and Cuneo. His focus is modern guitar, jazz improvisation and jazz harmony in the music courses promoted by Associazione Culturale Asilo Vecchio in Vigone, near Torino Italy.
He has made several arrangements for choirs and vocal groups (the group Elleintones played his Duke Ellington arrangements at the Symphony Theatre in New York City.) Cluzon Big Band’s conductor and arranger, Andrea has played at many jazz clubs and jazz festivals in Italy.