PROGRESSIVE JAZZ QUARTET

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While all members of the group have been/are professionals in subject areas different from music, many decades of experience in playing jazz is the common denominator of the band.


LUIGI TOGNOLI is a highly reputed figure in the Italian jazz scene, a fine musician and composer who started pioneering jazz in Milano 40 years ago. Currently he performs also in many other bands of Milano area.


ALBERTO MINETTI has a past of classic piano studies, learned to play at the age of 4, and practiced other instruments and different music genres. He is currently an academic at the University of Milano.


CARLO PANZALIS is considered one of the best bass players among the non-professional musicians, with almost 30 years experience in jazz performance. He works as a corporate manager in ICT.


LUCA COLOMBO started to play the drums very young and is very well considered also in the professional circuit for his musicality, sense of balance and elegance. His main activity is in Orthopaedic Surgery in Milano.

MUSICIANS:

Luigi Tognoli        tenor saxophone

Alberto Minetti     piano, synths

Carlo Panzalis      double bass, electric bass

Luca Colombo     drums


MUSIC GENRE: Modern Jazz


REPERTOIRE: Chick Corea, Yellowjackets, Steps Ahead, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report


DISCOGRAPHY

United Jazz Artists in Milan 2009


Photo Album







Contact:

Alberto Minetti

+39-347-3657357

aminetti@mac.com


Concerts:

  1. -16/6/2008: Rosa Antico Club Milano

  2. -1/10/2008: Santa Tecla Cafe Milano

  3. -16/4/2009: Rosa Antico Club Milano

  4. -23/5/2009: Arci Bitte Milano

  5. -12/1/2010: Rosa Antico Club Milano

  6. -  4/3/2010: Rosa Antico Club Milano

  7. -27/6/2010: Aula Grande, Univ. Milano

  8. -21/7/2010: Ritmo delle Cittá Milano

  9. -21/12/2010: Aula Magna, Univ. Milano

  10. -23/6/2011: Panta Rei Club, Milano

  11. -22/12/2012: Memo Music Club, Milano

  12. -4/4/2013: Memo Music Club, Milano

  13. -15/10/2013: Memo Music Club, Milano

  14. -14/12/2013: Caserma Teulliè, Milano

  15. -22/2/14: Teatro Comuna Baires, Milano


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Alberto Minetti                    Luigi Tognoli                                   

Carlo Panzalis                  Luca Colombo               

PROGRESSIVE JAZZ QUARTET’s attempt is to surpass the cliche of jazz musicians always playing tunes from the classic repertoire, i.e. mainstream Standards, or compositions from their own production. In the last 30 years, and up to now, a lot of very good music has been composed and nobody apparently play it around. No preclusion is given to compositions of cognate music genres; new tunes are introduced in the repertoire only when the criteria of interesting melodic/harmonic/rhythmic structure, of elegance and, ultimately, of beauty are met.

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