Mimmo Cafiero

Summoning an imaginative world of percussive rhythms, Mimmo Cafiero provides affected the jazz of Sicily for greater than a quarter of a hundred years. A member from the Enzo Randisi Music group, Brass Group Big Music group, as well as the Reinhardt Jazz Research Orchestra through the 1980s, he’s continuing to create his own speed like a bandleader. He documented an extraordinary live album along with his trio in 1995 and led his Open up Jazz Orchestra on the tour of THE UNITED STATES in 1999. The next yr, he hosted many concerts from the Duke University or college Jazz Orchestra. A indigenous of Palermo, Cafiero analyzed piano and sang in the chorus in the Conservatory Vincenzo Bellini from age 11. Teaching himself to try out drums 3 years later on, he started frequenting jam classes, often went to by international jazz music artists including Ian Carr and Oliver Lake. As an associate of vibraphonist Enzo RandinI’s music group from 1978 until 1981, he documented two albums and toured in Spain. Receiving an invitation to become listed on the 20-piece Brass Group Big Music group in 1983, he previously a chance to use such visitor directors as Mel Lewis, Sam Streams, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Archie Shepp. Performing using the Reinhardt Jazz Research Orchestra in 1984 and documenting with Rai Fonit Cetra in 1987, Cafiero relocated to Rome, in 1988, to instruct percussion at the institution of music Laboratory 2. Through the 3 years that he continued to be in Rome, he documented two single albums: I Move, soon after his entrance, and Moon and 25, offering guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, in 1990. Time for Palmero in 1991, Cafiero recognized a teaching placement on the Centro Studi Musicali of Sicilian Association Musica Insieme, and produced the Open up Jazz Orchestra with Sicilian music artists. Cafiero has regularly worked to fortify the position of jazz in Sicily. He offered as president from the local committee from the Country wide Association of Jazz Music artists, in 1991, assisting to organize the publication from the initial catalog of Sicilian jazz and making two CDs, The Sicilian Jazz Collection. A creator from the San Vito Jazz Celebration, in 1993, he continues to be an artistic movie director of the annual fete. Cafiero toured Italy using the Joey Calderazzo Quartet in 1996.