Antonio Ciacca

Along with his imaginative piano playing, Antonio Ciacca has produced his presence felt on both sides from the Atlantic. Blessed in Germany and elevated in Italy, Ciacca provides followed such stellar jazz music artists as Steve Lacy, Craig Bailey, Benny Golson, Artwork Farmer and Lee Konitz. The founder and music movie director from the Detroit Gospel Performers, Ciacca performed a twenty town tour of European countries, using the group, in Dec 2000. He previously toured European countries using the Larry Smith Quartet, in 1995 and 1996, along with Joe Henderson and Steve Lacy in 1999. He performed in Japan using the Eiji Nakayama Quartet in 1998. Playing piano because the age group of seven, Ciacca’s educators included Steve Grossman, Kenny Barron, Marcus Bellgrave and Barry Harris. He devoted his 1998 recording, Hollis Avenue, to Jaki Byard, with whom he analyzed in 1998 and 1999. Ciacca keeps a experts in Afro-American musicology from your University or college of Bologna. Ciacca is constantly on the play a solid role within the development of Western jazz. The founder of C-Jam Music, a nonprofit, Italy-based, organization focused on the advertising of globe music, he structured and offered as music movie director from the Appennino Music Event in 2001.