Roberto Ottaviano - Resonance & Rhapsodies (Extended Love & Eternal Love) (2020)

The collaboration between the Salento record label Dodicilune and the saxophonist from Bari Roberto Ottaviano continues. After "Un Dio Clandestino" (2008), "Arcthetics. Primitive Breath" (2013), "Forgotten Matches. The Worlds of Steve Lacy" (2014), "Astrolabio" (2015), "Sideralis" (2017, album by year for Top Jazz, referendum organized by Musica Jazz magazine) and "Eternal Love" (2018), "Resonance & Rhapsodies" will be released on Tuesday 1 September.

A double album - supported by Puglia Sounds Record 2020/2021 of the Puglia Region (FSC 2014/2020 - Pact for Puglia - We invest in your future) - and distributed in Italy and abroad by IRD and in the best online stores by Believe Digital - in which the musician and composer is joined in "Rhapsodies" by the quartet "Eternal Love" composed of Marco Colonna (clarinets), Giorgio Pacorig (piano, rodhes), Giovanni Maier (double bass) and Zeno De Rossi (drums) expanded, in the first cd "Resonance" from Extended Love with the presence of Alexander Hawkins (piano), Danilo Gallo (double bass and acoustic bass) and Hamid Drake (drums). The official presentation of the disc, right on the day of its release, will be hosted by the Casa del jazz (Tuesday 1 September at 9pm - admission 15 - presales on TicketOne) at the Casa del Jazz in Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55 in Rome.

Active on the international jazz scene for almost forty years, Roberto Ottaviano (Bari, 21 December 1957) has played and recorded with some of the most important American and European musicians spanning several generations. At the age of five he took clarinet lessons at the “Niccolò Piccinni” Conservatory in Bari then studied classical saxophone in Perugia with Federico Mondelci, harmony and classical composition with Walter Boncompagni, Giacomo Manzoni and Luigi Nono. A fortuitous meeting with Steve Lacy pushes him to deepen the study of soprano sax. In America he studied jazz composition and arrangement with Ran Blake, Bill Russo, George Russell collaborating with Buck Clayton, Ernie Wilkins, Benny Bailey, Sal Nistico; then he is a member of the Andrea Centazzo orchestra, collaborates with Gianluigi Trovesi, Theo Jörgensmann, Franz Koglmann, Carlo Actis Dato, Radu Malfatti, Carlos Zingaro, Franz Koglmann, Georg Gräwe, Ran Blake, Tiziana Ghiglioni. In 1983 he released his first album ("Aspects") with Giancarlo Schiaffini, Paolo Fresu, Carlo Actis Dato. In 1986 he formed a quartet with Arrigo Cappellatti. In 1988 he founded the brass ensemble "Six Mobilies", in 1988 he recorded a tribute to Charles Mingus (Mingus - portraits in six colors), in 1990 he recorded "Items from the old earth". Since 1979 he has collaborated with numerous jazz musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, Mal Waldron, Albert Mangelsdorff, Chet Baker, Enrico Rava, Barre Phillips, Keith Tippett, Steve Swallow, Irene Schweizer, Kenny Wheeler, Henry Texier, Paul Bley, Aldo Romano, Myra Sant'agnello, Tony Oxley, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Mario Schiano, Trilok Gurtu, Samulnori, Pierre Favre. He plays in many European and American jazz festivals. He performs in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Denmark, Norway, England, Spain, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Russia, India, Japan, Mexico, Thailand, Morocco, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroun, United States, Canada, and has recorded for Red, Splasc (h), Soul Note, Dodicilune, Hat Art, Intakt, ECM, DIW and Ogun. As a teacher he held courses at Woodstock N.Y., in the conservatories of Mexico City, Vienna, Groningen, at the cultural institutions of Urbino, Cagliari, Florence, Rome, Syracuse. He founded the Jazz Music course in the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory of Bari and of which he has been coordinator for almost 30 years. He is the author of the book, "The sax: the instrument, the history, the techniques" (Muzzio editore, 1989).

The Dodicilune label, founded by Gabriele Rampino and Maurizio Bizzochetti, has been active since 1996 and has a catalog of over 250 productions by Italian and foreign artists. Distributed in stores in Italy and abroad by IRD, Dodicilune discs can also be purchased online, listened to and downloaded on major platforms in the world thanks to Believe Digital.