Guitar player, composer and concert-artist, Giovanni works in the area of crossing acoustic music, performing as a soloist of contemporary acoustic fingerstyle guitar as well as in different ensembles like the Acoustic Trio (guitar, vibraphone and accordion), and several duos. Giovanni plays original instrumental music in which folk reminescence, jazz harmony and improvisation converge with a touch of mediterranean melody, as for example in the last CD “Folk Frontiera” (2006 Wonderland Rec.), played by the Acoustic Trio and the outstanding clarinet player Gabriele Mirabassi as a guest. “Duos & Trios, guitar dialogues”, (2003,Acoustic Music Rec.), reveals Palombo’s cameristic approach with pieces played as a duo and as a trio: “Giovanni Palombo’s musical microcosm is characterized by an original amlgamation of mediterranean melodic phrases, impressionistic harmonic progressions and jazzy improvvisations. His compositions moves within that especially staked out area with a serene, broad swing, majestic, impelling, playful, always with a surprising twist “ (CD’sinside notes). This CD also contains the composition “Dove avranno nascosto il mare” choose for the movie soundtrack of “L’Orizzonte degli Eventi” directed by Daniele Vicari (Cannes 2005). Giovanni also composed music for the Italian TV documentaries “Geo&Geo” (Rai Trade). He teaches at the Ciac School of Music in Rome, Italy, as guitar professor and he is a columnist of the magazine “Chitarre”. Important partecipations in the last year : the European Jazz Festival of Athens (Greece), Verviers Music Festival (Belgium), La Palma Jazz Festival (Italy), Sarzana International Guitar Meetings (Italy), Edenkoben Guitar Festival (Germany).
DISCOGRAPHIE
DUOS & TRIOS - GUITAR DIALOGUES
Acoustic guitar and ensemble
Recording: 2001/2002
Time: 48:49
Musicians: Giovanni Palombo: acoustic guitars - Feliciano Zacchia: jazz accordion - Francesco Lo Cascio: vibes - Francesco De Fabritiis: soprano sax - Enrico Ghelardi: soprano sax - Rosario Jermano: percussion - Paolo Senni: fretless bass - Umberto Coletta: piano
CD-TRACKS
DOVE AVRANNO NASCOSTO IL MARE · LA BUONA SORTE · TROISI · LE PAROLE SONO ALTROVE · UNA GOCCIA NEL MARE/OMAGGIO AD ASTOR · MR. KELLY · PALESTINA · GIOIOSA MAREA · QUI E SEMPRE
FOLK FRONTIERA
Acoustic Guitar
Recording: 2005
Musicians:
Giovanni Palombo: Akustikgitarre -
Feliciano Zacchia: Akkordion -
Francesco Lo Cascio: Vibraphon
CD-TRACKS
Profezia dell'Armeno · Maggio bevuto 'o' suonno · Folk Frontiera · Promessa d'amore · Il treno di Madrid · Viaggio in Corsica · Invocazione e danza · Per Mano · La nostalgia dei poeti · Lunare