[NewMusic] Mario Schiano, R.I.P.

[Michael Zelner]

 From another music list:

>R.I.P. MARIO SCHIANO (1933-2008)
>
>Saxophonist Mario Schiano, one of the fathers and initiators of the 
>Italian free-jazz scene and one of the most influential figures in 
>European improvised music, passed away after a long illness 
>yesterday.
>
>Born in 1933 in Naples, he moved to Rome at the start of the '60s 
>where he started organizing jazz groups and concerts; his Gruppo 
>Romano Free Jazz recorded the "manifesto" of Italian Free Jazz in 
>1970, the memorable "If Not Ecstatic We Refund," but Schiano also 
>worked with luminaries of radical improv and classic contemporary 
>music like Musica Elettronica Viva and Nuova Consonanza. His own 
>groups ranged from duos and trios to the big band, and in recent 
>years he was an essential voice within the Italian Instabile 
>Orchestra.
>
>His brainchild "Controindicazioni" festival -- at its 21st edition 
>this year -- has been the only regular forum for free improvisation 
>in Rome for years, regarded as one of the most adventurous music 
>events in Europe with Berlin's Total Music Meeting and Nickelsdorf's 
>Konfrontationen.
>
>http://www.controindicazioni.com/


See also:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Schiano>


MZ

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