Luca Aquino

Luca Aquino (born June 1, 1974) is an Italian jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.

Luca Aquino
R.P. Braun, Luca Aquino
Background information
Born (1974-06-01) June 1, 1974
Benevento, Italy
GenresWorld music, jazz
InstrumentsTrumpet, flugelhorn
LabelsACT
Websitewww.lucaaquino.com

Life and career

Born in the town of Benevento, in southern Italy, he was mainly self-taught when he began to play the trumpet at the age of nineteen. For two years he abandoned the practice of the instrument to pursue a master's degree in economics. His love for the sound of Miles Davis and Chet Baker brought him back to the study of trumpet.

In 2007 Universal Music released Sopra Le Nuvole, his first album as leader. A year later he recorded Lunaria with guests Roy Hargrove and Maria Pia De Vito. The album won the Top Jazz award by the Italian magazine Musica Jazz. In 2009, he recorded Amam, then TSC in a church in the Netherlands. In 2010, he recorded Icaro Solo for solo trumpet and electronics in a church in Benevento. After creating the festival Riverberi, a collaboration with Mimmo Paladino led to Chiaro[1] an album in trio with a Norwegian rhythm section and special guest Lucio Dalla. In 2012, after a live album with American trumpeter Jon Hassell for the Church of Saint Augustine in Benevento, he joined the quartet of the percussionist Manu Katché and recorded two albums. In 2013 with the accordionist Carmine Ioanna he recorded aQustico for Tuk Music and embarked on a world tour. In 2015 OverDOORS was a tribute to his favorite rock band, The Doors. In December 2015 he worked with the Jordanian National Association Orchestra on an album in the archaeological site of Petra.[2] The album was made possible by the support of UNESCO Amman Office, the Petra Development and Tourism Authority, and the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org). An initiative promoted within the framework of the global campaign #UNITE4HERITAGE, started by UNESCO in defense of the artistic and cultural heritage.[3]

After directing the Pozzuoli Jazz Festival and the Bari Jazz on April 7, 2016 he participated in Manu & Friends, sharing the stage of the Olympia in Paris with Sting, Richard Bona, Noa, Stephan Eicher, Raul Midon, and Tore Brunborg. In 2017 a signature trumpet model "Aquino" was handcrafted by the Dutch artisan Hub Van Laar. In 2017 Aquino developed Bell's palsy, an injury to the seventh nerve in his face, forcing him to cancel the Jazz Bike Tour which included fifty concerts to be traveled by bike from Benevento to Oslo.

Style

He was influenced by the early playing of Chet Baker and Miles Davis, for which he was given the nickname "Apostle of Miles",[4] and by the rock bands The Doors and AC/DC. He is known for research on natural sound, the use of electronics, and his passion for musical experimentation in unusual places.[5]

Discography

As leader

  • Sopra Le Nuvole (Emarcy, 2008)
  • Lunaria (Universal Classics & Jazz, 2009)
  • "Icaro Solo" - Universal Music 2010
  • Chiaro (Tuk, 2011)
  • aQustico Tuk/Bonsai, 2013)
  • Did You Hear Something? (Leo, 2013)
  • Live in Concert (ACT, 2014)
  • Rock 4.0 (Musica Jazz, 2014)
  • OverDOORS (Tuk, 2015)
  • Petra (TAGI, 2016)
  • Aqustico Vol 2 (Losen, 2017)
  • Italian Songbook (ACT, 2019)


AS SIDEMAN & COOLEADER

2020

w ED quartet

w Sade Mangiaracina & Salvatore Maltana

w Mauro Sigura 4et


2016

Vesevus w Solis String & Gianluca Brugnano - Egea

Manu Katchè - Unstatic - Anteprima Production

Sade Mangiaracina – “La terra dei Ciclopi” - Innerc Circle Music

Autor de Chet - Verve

Paolo Freu - Around Tuk - Espresso

Rita Marcotulli - A Pino - Espresso

Francesco Mascio “Ganga’s Spirit” - Emme Produzioni


2015

Planet E - Parco della Musica

Fortitho - 12 Lune

Matthieu Borè - Naked Songs - Bonsai Music


2014

Manu Katché Live in Concert - Act Music

My Summer Jazz - Bonsai Music

Carmine Ioanna Solo - Bonsai Music

Sardegna Chi_Ama

Niccoló Faraci It Came To Broadcast The Yucatan - Auand

Nina Pedersen Sweet Mornig

Piero Delle Monache Thunupa - Auand


2013

Lucio Dalla Dalla in jazz - Sony Music

Lucio Dalla Qui dove il mare luccica - Sony Music

Joe Barbieri Chet Lives - Le Chant Du Monde

Stefano Costanzo Tricatiempo - Auand

Chaos Conspiracy Who The Fuck Is Elvis?- Overdub Recordings

Swedish Mobilia Did you hear something - Leo Records

Mas en Tango Alma - Picanto Records

Il Pentagramma della Memoria


2012

Giovanni Francesca “Genesi” - Auand

Jano Quartet “Distante” - Via Veneto Jazz

Gianni De Nitto “Remixin Standard” - Universal

Lucio Dalla - Qui dove il mare luccica - Sony Music

“The Italian Jazz Job” - Universal Music

“Giovani in tour” - Musiclive/Ismez

La Costituente “Per quanto vi prego” - Altipiani

Mariella Nava “Come un amore” - Edel


2011

Omparty “Petra Janca” - Label Picanto Records

Cherillo meets Aquino “Soffice” Picanto

Marco Bardoscia “The dreamer” My Favorite Records

“The Skopje connection meets Ernst Reijseger” - Losen Record


2010

Pieluigi Villani “Tempus Transit” Univeral Music

The Skopje Connection “Amam” - Egea

Remo Anzovino “Igloo” Egea 2010

Chaos Conspiracy - Warner Chappel

Rita pacilio “Se io fossi luna “Splash Record

Aquino “Live Proposals”

Chaos Conspiracy “Indie Rock Makes ME Sick” - Mondadori


2009

Ghemon “Beleave” Digital Record

Marco Zurzolo “Migranti” - Egea

Gentile Giovanni - Mike day 2

Omeparty e Leon Pantarey “L’isola della pomice” - Picanto Records

Marzo Zurdolo "Migranti" - Egea

Fabrizio Savino feat. Luca Aquino “Metropolitan Prints” Alfamusic


2008

Omeparty “L’isola della pomice” - Picanto Record

Rosso Rubino “Tecniche di approccio” - Altipiani


2007

Giuseppe Del Re “Sings Cole Porter” - Abeat Record


2006

Leo Quartieri “Bambimbi Viaggi nel mondo” Leo Rec


2005

Live in BN with Chuck Findley – Riverberi


2004

Eight caught planning - Time in Jazz Record

Wide 5et “Meet me in Sardinja” - Splash Music

References

  1. Rella, Sara (6 May 2015). "Luca Aquino, Overdoors". InsideArt (in Italian). Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/unesco-jorchestra-discover-petra's-melody'
  3. http://www.un.org.jo/events/journey-discover-petra's-melody
  4. Prisco, Francesco (21 May 2015). "I Doors secondo la tromba di Luca Aquino, apostolo del Miles elettrico". Il Sole 24 ORE (in Italian). Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  5. Mondello, Nicholas (8 August 2015). "Luca Aquino: OverDOORS". All About Jazz. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
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