Simone Zanchini - Frank Marocco DUO Bebop Buffet
MUSIC STYLE: Be Bop/Maistream Jazz
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LINE UP: Simone Zanchini - accordion, Frank Marocco - accordion
FROM: USA/Italy
BIOGRAPHY
SIMONE ZANCHINI
Considered one of the most interesting and innovative accordion players on the international scene, his quest takes him to the limit of contemporary, acoustic and electronic sound experiment, and more other contaminations mixed together., super-refined influences issuing in a an absolutely personal approach for improvisation. He received an honours diploma in the classical accordion from the Conservatory “G.Rossini” of Pesaro.
He is an eclectic artist, whose concert activity involves groups of from various fields of music (improvisation, contemporary music, jazz, classical music). He has performed at the most important international festivals: Clusone Jazz, Umbria Jazz, Tivoli Jazz, Berchidda Jazz, Sant’Anna Arresi, Barga Jazz, Mara Jazz, Vignola Jazz, Ravenna Festival, Rossini opera Festival , Teggiano Jazz etc. and in a lot of important international festivals in France, Austria, Germany, England, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonian, Spain, England, Tunisia, Lebanese, India, Russian and Japan.
He can boast collaborations with many musicians of international fame: Thomas Clausen, Gianluigi Trovesi, Javier Girotto, Paolo Fresu, Marco Tamburini, Massimo Manzi, Bruno Tommaso, Ettore Fioravanti, Mario Marzi, Michele Rabbia, Giovanni Maier,Tamara Obrovac, Krunoslav Levacic, Vasko Atanasovski, Antonello Salis, Han Bennink, Art Van Damme, Jasper Soffers, Adam Nussbaum.
Since 1999 Simone is the first accordion player in the “Ensemble Strumentale Scaligero” of La Scala Theatre in Milano, with this group he plays tours everywhere in the world.
Recently he published two new CDs called: Fuga per Art and Better Alone. In Fuga per Art , Simone revisits, in personal style, two of the most important living accordion players: Art Van Damme and Frank Marocco, respecting always that characteristic sound created using accordion and vibraphone together, following a kind of jazz-language usually not much played with this instrument above all in Europe.
Better Alone...! is a solo-project in which he experiments all sound possibilities of his instrument through the use of a particular midi accordion live-electronic and laptop.
Currently He has two new projects which include his passion for contemporary music: Simone Zanchini Quartet: Entropia (D. Caliri, G.Maier, M. Rabbia, S.Zanchini) and Elettrotico Trio ( A.Alessi, C. Calcagnile, S.Zanchini).
FRANK MAROCCO
In the world of accordion performance, 
Frank Marocco is a giant. Not only for his mastery of the instrument itself, but for his highly developed musicality. In any style, on the concert stage or in the recording studio, his playing is technically brilliant and musically superb.
Frank Marocco is one of the most recorded accordionist in America (and, possibly, the world), having played on a vast number of movie soundtracks, television scores, commercial jingles and record albums, in the studios of Hollywood and beyond. He has recorded for and/or worked with artists ranging from Brian Wilson, Pink Floyd and Madonna to Luciano Pavarotti, conductor Maxim Shostakovich and composer John Williams.
He was nominated eight years in a row for the Most Valuable Player Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (N.A.R.A.S) and received that award twice.

Frank is also a consummate jazz artist and a gifted composer with several of his own albums to his credit. He has played his music for audiences all.
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