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- Born in Naples on August 17th 1960, Maria Pia De Vito is an Italian vocalist, composer and arranger and is a standout of the contemporary European jazz scene. She studied opera and contemporary singing and began her music career in 1976 as a vocalist and musician (plectra, percussion, piano) in research groups committed to ethnic music as well as ethnic and non-ethnic polyphony, mostly related to the Mediterranean, Balkan and South-American areas. Since 1980 she has been active in the jazz sphere, collaborating steadily with musicians like John Taylor, Ralph Towner, Rita Marcotulli, Ernst Rejiseger, Paolo Fresu, Norma Winstone, Steve Swallow, Gianluigi Trovesi, David Linx, Diederik Wissels and gigging with musicians of the calibre of Joe Zawinul, Michael Brecker, Miroslav Vitous, Uri Caine, Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Eliot Ziegmund, Cameron Brown, Steve Turre, Maria Joao, Ramamani Ramanujan, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Nguyen-le and many others, playing many of the most important international festivals and touring Europe and overseas. After 15 years practicing the great American jazz songbook of scat and be-bop, in 1994 she begins a new phase of her work with the project Nauplia, conceived and directed together with Rita Marcotulli, her first trespass into free form and the crossover with European jazz. The vocal textures form the basis of the sound, which will see the encounter between the hybrid of jazz and the peculiarities of Neapolitan singing. The concept of improvisational possibilities of the voice in contact with several cultural contexts becomes the basis of her new direction, whose first release is “Phonè”, a work about the voice preceding the language and about rhythm and dance in their different cultural inflexion. It is a project that marks the beginning of the collaboration with John Taylor. At Umbria Jazz ‘98 she presented the Phoné project, which featured John Taylor, Gianluigi Trovesi, Enzo Pietropaoli and Federico Sanesi. Among their most important performances, the group played in Weimar, in occasion of WEIMAR 1999. Since 1996 she has collaborated with British composer Colin Towns with his Big Band, The Mask Orchestra. She played live at the major festivals in England and Germany including the remarkable exhibition at the Queen Elizabeth Hall of London with the Mask Symphonic (70 musicians) and the participation of Norma Winstone. In 1997 the Maria Pia De Vito / John Taylor / Ralph Towner trio is born, marked with the release of the album Verso. In 2001 the name of Maria Pia was critically lauded by the most celebrated signatures of American jazz press as she is in the category Beyond Artist of the 49th Down Beat Critics Poll. In this list, her name appears alongside such outstanding artists as Caetano Veloso, Joni Mitchell, Cesaria Evora, Olu Dara, Carlos Santana, Uri Caine and Marisa Monte. This very important acknowledgement was to be her stepping stone into the international market. In 2001 she also imposed herself on the Italian scene, winning the Positano Jazz Prize. In 2002 she released the CD Nel Respiro with the John Taylor and Ralph Towner trio, with the participation of Steve Swallow and Patrice Heral, with whom she begins a profitable artistic collaboration. 2003 is the year for the project and the release of the CD Tumulti which represents her most experimental work to date. Oriented to interaction between voice, improvisation and electronics, co-leading the project with Patrice Heral and collaborating with cello player Ernst Reijseger and Austrian pianist Paul Urbanek, multi-awarded in his country for his “reverse composing” works. Tumulti received enormous critical approval and was performed live at jazz festivals in Italy and abroad. On So Right (2005) together with the co-leaders Danilo Rea and Enzo Pietropaoli and the contribution of drummer Aldo Romano, she reflects on song form through the reinterpretation of seven songs by Joni Mitchell and five of her own compositions. Over the last few years she has been a leading player in projects including Il Brutto Anatroccolo (The Ugly Duckling) with music by Giorgio Gaslini, Gesualdo on Gesualdo da Venosa, by (and with) Tino Tracanna and Corrado Guarino, Oltre Napoli, La Notte and Lettera da Orsara by Bruno Tommaso, and Il Celeste Specchio by Carlo Boccadoro. She regularly collaborates with the sculptor and video producer Marisa Albanese with whom she has produced three videos which were presented in art museums and galleries. 2009 has seen the release of her latest album, Mind The Gap, a further exploration of the crossover territory between freeform jazz, traditional European music and abstract electronica, and contains a reinterpretation of the Bjork hit Hidden Place.
- Maria Pia De Vito ist eine italienische Jazzmusikerin (Gesang, Komposition, Arrangement). Nach Unterricht in Opern- und modernem Gesang begann sie 1976 als Sängerin und Gitarristin (später auch als Pianistin) in Gruppen, die sich der Musik des Mittelmeerraums und des Balkan widmeten. Seit 1980 setzt sie sich als Sängerin mit Jazz auseinander. Sie hat dabei mit Musikern wie John Taylor, Ralph Towner, Kenny Wheeler, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Gianluigi Trovesi, Henning Sieverts, Joe Zawinul, Michael Brecker, Miroslav Vitouš, Dave Liebman, Joshua Redman, Cameron Brown, Billy Hart, Gary Bartz, Steve Turré, und dem Art Ensemble of Chicago zusammengearbeitet. Zwischen 1994 und 1997 hat sie mit der Pianistin Rita Marcotulli im Projekt Nauplia das Verschmelzen von neapolitanischen Liedern und anderen mediterranen Melodien mit Jazz erkundet. In den letzten Jahren hat sie häufig mit dem britischen Komponisten Colin Towns zusammengearbeitet und auch mit dessem Mask Orchestra aufgenommen; in Giorgio Gaslinis Häßlichem Entchen hat sie eine Hauptrolle gehabt. Tumulti ist ein Duo-Projekt mit dem Perkussionisten Patrice Héral. Mit ihren Songs from the Underground setzt sie sich mit Liedern von Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell oder Sting auseinander. De Vito ist auf zahlreichen Festivals in Süd- und Mitteleuropa, aber auch auf den britischen Inseln aufgetreten, hat aber auch im Birdland oder im Performing Theatre von New York City konzertiert. Außerdem arbeitet sie mit der Bildhauerin und Videokünstlerin Marisa Albanese zusammen.
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