There You Are, Roberta!
You Are There by Roberta Gambarini and Hank Jones
Following her impressive debut, Easy to Love , Gambarini finds herself in her ideal environment as a duet partner with the legendary pianist, Hank Jones singing songs which help to define the jazz cannon.
Roberta Gambarini was born in Torino, Italy, into a family where jazz was much loved and appreciated. She began listening to this music as a child and started taking clarinet lessons when she was twelve years old. By the time she was 17, she began singing and performing in jazz clubs around Northern Italy and at the age of 18, she decided to move to Milan to pursue a career as a jazz singer.
Soon after her move to Milan, still in her teens, Roberta took third place in a national jazz radio competition on TV, leading to performance opportunities at jazz festivals throughout Italy. She has performed in Jazz broadcasts on the Italian radio and TV channels and recorded since 1986 both under her own name and as a guest. In 1997, she worked with French Hammond organ player Emmanuel Bex, touring jazz clubs throughout Italy.
In 1998 she moved to the United States with a scholarship from the New England Conservatory in Boston. Two weeks later, Roberta stunned many in the jazz world with a third place finish in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition.
Since then, she has performed with Michael Brecker, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Slide Hampton, Roy Hargrove, Jimmy Heath, Hank Jones, Christian McBride, and Toots Thielemans, amongst many others, and has performed at Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Town Hall and Walt Disney Concert Hall, and jazz festivals around the world such as Barbados, London, Monterey, North Sea, Toronto, and Umbria.
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Italian music
The music and artists of Italy
So much can be said about Italian music that a page like this could only list some of the most influential styles of music that Italy has been known for.
From classical to opera, folk and pop, progressive rock and crossover, Italian composers and performers can all be included in the World Hall of Fame.
The classical music of Italy is considered to be melodic and romantic as heard in Puccini and Verdi's works, but it can also stretch to experimental and the base of the early Neapolitan songs.
Opera dates back to 1500, Venice and Naples were the first to showcase the works of Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini.
Italian folk music is as varied as its regions. In the northern regions you will find music that has influences from the bordering countries such as France, Austria and Slovenia. In the south the music is clearly more Mediterranean with Arabic, Greek and African beats and music.
Popular Italian music was born in the 19th century along the Neapolitan Coast and later on in the 20th century, American Jazz influences, rock and roll in the
1950s and 1960s followed by a stream of Italian singer-songwriters and politically charged songs. Italy was also one of the cradles of Progressive Rock. Currently Italian pop music is very similar to American pop music, including Rap and Hip-Hop.
Some of the most famous Italian singers are: Enrico Caruso, Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, Mina, Claudio Villa, Adriano Celentano, Gianni Morandi, Ornella Vanoni, Lucio Battisti, Patty Pravo, Zucchero, Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini, Lucio Dalla, Renato Zero, Francesco De Gregori, Vasco Rossi.
Click here to view a list of popular Italian singers
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