- country:Italy
- style(s):Instrumental, Jazz
- label:ALFAMUSIC
- artist posted by:ALFAMUSIC - Label & Publishing
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DARIO CELLAMARO - BIOGRAPHY
Dario Cellamaro, is the creator and leader of the "SWINGSUITE QUINTET" which carries his name and follows the energetic "be bop/hard bop" swing style. He has been on the northern Italy musical scene for more than twenty years and has lived in Varese since 1977. He was born on the 19th of October 1957 in Cerignola(Foggia-Italy) and started playing the drums when just seven years old. Basically a self taught man for ten years, in 1978 he begins theoretical and rhythmical studies following the drummers methods written in those days by Tullio De Piscopo who he meets in 1973 to then become his pupil in 1977 and then trusted collaborator. He has performed with the great Neapolitan drummer in numerous jazz events between 1990 and 1994 in small clubs and city squares in Lombardy, Liguria, Marche, Piedmont, Tuscany and Veneto.
In the same years he carried on his "side-man" activity, collaborating with prestigious Italian jazz performers (FRANCO CERRI, MASSIMO URBANI, GIANNI BASSO, RENATO SELLANI, LARRY NOCELLA, DADO MORONI.....). He also collaborated with international jazz artists such as GERRY MULLIGAN, WOODY SHAW, SCOTT HAMILTON, DANILO PEREZ, TONY SCOTT, SLIDE HAMPTON, HARRY "sweet" EDISON, and CARL FONTANA.
In 1994 Dario Cellamaro decides to begin a hard work dedicated pretty much exclusively to his 'SWINGSUITE' project. All this work is not in vain as just two years later he releases his first Album as leader of this formation. The CD, "SWEET LOVE", is named after a ballad written by Cellamaro in memory of his recently deceased mother, and it has a considerable success with the critics.
This is followed by the band's performing in many Italian jazz clubs and then in 1996 by the icing on the cake of an already brilliant career!! The meeting in a recording studio with the great trumpet and flugehorn player CLARK TERRY with whom he records his second Album as the leader of Swingsuite. It is titled: CLARK TERRY meets Dario Cellamaro Swingsuite 5et - "MANIPULITE".
It is not only the beginning of an artistic collaboration but also of a great friendship between Dario Cellamaro and Clark Terry, which results in a second CD recorded in 1998 and titled "SECOND TIME". There will also be three years of touring around Italy between 1997 and 1999, during which Cellamaro and Terry perform in the prestigious jazz festivals of Mosciano Sant'Angelo - Stresa - Castelfranco Veneto - and others, amongst which the first ever Andria (BA) jazz festival which in that year saw the presence of artists like Jimmy Owens and Lee Konitz.
In the first half of 1999, Dario Cellamaro dedicates himself mainly to discographic activity and in fact, in November of the same year he's back recording with a New York artist he met performing as a guest with Clark Terry's American quintet: the saxophonist DAVE GLASSER. Alongside Glasser and his quintet he records the Album "BASKET 11.05.1999", dedicated to his favourite basketball team, the "VARESE ROOSTERS" who on that date win their tenth Italian title. The CD is released in April 2000 and presented in preview on the 14th of April 2000 for the last home game of the team from Varese.
The year 2000 is very satisfying for Cellamaro, but its highlight comes in the week preceding Christmas. He flies to the United States on invitation by his fraternal friend Clark Terry who is celebrating his 80th birthday. For the occasion he performs alongside the best American musicians (amongst them are RAY BROWN, HANK JONES, LIONEL HAMPTON, and JOE HENDERSON), strengthening, thanks to the advise from these world jazz greatest, his knowledge of the fantastic world of 'mainstream' jazz!!!!!
In 2001 he releases a live CD titled "CHILD DREAMS" and performs in many concerts. During this period he has time to think about his work for the following months. In fact, in 2002, Cellamaro dedicates himself to preparing and arranging a new repertoire of original pieces composed by himself and rich of less known 'standards'. This repertoire has been presented in various concerts in clubs and Summer festivals.
On June 2003 ALFAMUSIC has published his new album NINNA NANNA NINO with his swingsuite Quintet.