9.26.12 Andrea Marcelli + Mitch Forman + Doug Webb + Jeff Littleton

During his career he performed in USA, Japan, India, Brazil, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tunisia, Italy, Germany, England, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Estonia, France, Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, Lebanon and others. More than 190 of his compositions have been recorded in CD. Two of his compositions have been included on both the “European Real Book” and “The Digital Real Book part 2″ by http://www.shermusic.com.

Graduated in 1986 from the L. Refice Conservatory in Frosinone (Rome) in Classical Clarinet, Jazz Composition and Arrangement. He also attended clinics with Tommy Campbell, Peter Erskine and others.

Worked as featured drummer playing shows for RAI Television from 1982 to 1988 also with the St.Louis Big Band directed by Bruno Biriaco (82/86), including the Live TV Show, “Unicef”, “Il Nastro D`Argento”, “Domenica In” 82,83,84 for Pippo Baudo. The big band has included occasionally Baldo Maestri, Sal Genovese and Paolo Fresu. Among other TV shows that Marcelli performed are: Tandem, DOC, Blitz, Orecchiocchio,”La Musica c`e`, Il Piacere dell`Estate, Vediamoci sul 2, Cartoni Magici.

Andrea, between ’85-’96 composed and recorded 7 CDs of Library music for Films, TV and Radio for Primrose Music, Flippermusic and Fonit Cetra broadcasted world-wide.
Andrea moved to USA in 1989 spending 8 years in Los Angeles and 4 in New York and quickly gaining a Special Green Card Visa as a “First preference Alien wth Extraordinary abilities in the Field of Jazz” .

Andrea is resident in Berlin since 2001.

He is leading a very active musical life, he performed live and/or recorded with Wayne Shorter, David Liebman, Don Menza, Bob Mintzer, Mitchel Forman, Eddie Gomez, Mike Stern, Bob Berg, John Patitucci, Allan Holdsworth, Alan Pasqua, Dave Carpenter, Ralph Towner, Eberhard Weber, Marc Johnson, Gary Thomas, Chuck Loeb, Bendik, Mike Mainieri, Jeff Andrews, Rick Margitza, Alphonso Johnson, Alex Acuna, Eric Marienthal, Frank Gambale, Jimmy Earl, Hiram Bullock, Michael Manring, Jeff Berlin, Bob Sheppard, Steve Tavaglione, Benny Maupin, Jack Nimitz, Sam Most, Harold Land, Doug Webb, Brandon Fields, Sid Jacobs, Tony Dumas, John Beasley, Kei Akagi, Mike Garson, Bill Cunliffe, Jon Hassell, Freddie Ravel, Gary Willis, Jimmy Johnson, John Leftwich, Brian Bromberg, Andy Summers, L.Subramaniam, Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Frank Colon, Guilherme Vergueiro, Teco Cardoso, Meia Noite, Carolina dos Santos Shorter, Moacir Santos, Bill Reichenbach, Tom Fowler, Steve La Spina, George Garzone, Billy Drews, Tony Malaby, Adam Kolker, Rez Abbasi, Roberta Piket, Russ Lossing, David Berkman,. Ed Schuller, Harvie S. (Swartz), Mark Egan, Cameron Brown, Kyle Eastwood, Scott Lee, Markus Stockhausen, Simon Stockhausen, Wolfgang Lackerschmid, Davide Petrocca, Thomas Clausen, Jesper Lundgaard, Bo Stief, Bjarne Roupe, Palle Danielsson, Arild Andersen, Ekkehard Wölk, Johannes Fink, Larry Porter, Dirk Engelhardt, David Friedman, Pietro Tonolo, Puccini Moods, Lorenzo Petrocca, Andrea Pozza, Riccardo Del Fra, Alexey Chizhik, Andrei Kondakov and many others.

Andrea recorded in USA two acclaimed CDs for legendary Major Jazz Label VERVE with his original compositions:
“Silent Will” (Verve/PolyGram and Polydor K.K.1989/90) and “Oneness”(Verve/Polydor K.K. and Lipstick Rec.1992/94)
Top 10 Jazz CDs of 1991 (#8) for Tower Records’ PULSE
Top 20 Jazz/Fusion New Released sales, Ad Lib Japan
Among the Top Jazz Picks of 1991 for Jazziz Magazine
Guitar World Critic’s Choise new releases 4/1992.

He has produced Chema Vilchez’s debut CD “El sueno del navegante” best Jazz CD of 1996 at Radio 1 Spain and “La Naturaleza Sagrata de la Vida”.
He has performed (1994) drums and synth programmings on the film “Mississippi Masala” Columbia Tristar for L.Subramaniama with Andy Summers and Emil Richards.
Partecipated in 2002 on the award winning film “Good Bye Lenin” X Films with Antonello Marafioti.

Collaborated with the Rytmiskkonservatorium of Copenhagen recording and producing 1999/2004 several projects, including Paolo Russo/Bo Stief “Alchemy” top best 5 Jazz CD of 2004 in Denmark.

Marcelli`s music credits include among others: Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Berlin, New Delhi, Muenchen. Stuttgart, Paris, Lille, Frankfurt, Wolfsburg, Cologne, Hamburg, Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Moscov, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Tokyo, Kyoto, Tunisi, Beirut, Luxembourg, The Foreign Minister of Germany, The Minister of Foreign Affair of Germany, Berlin Senate, The Goethe Institute, The Jazz Services England, The Danish Jazz Federation, JazzKaar Estonia, Finnish Jazz Federation, Italian Embassy in Sweden, India and Estonia, Italian Konsulat Dortmund, Kolkata, Mumbai, Danish Embassy in Berlin and Tokyo, English Embassy in Berlin, USA Embassy in Berlin, Los Angeles County, Nowegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Sibelius Music School in Helsinki, Osaka Tennoji School and Kultuuriakadeemia in Vijandi Estonia among others.

Andrea Marcelli website

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Born in Brooklyn 55 years ago, MITCHEL FORMAN began studying classical piano at age 7. At 17 he entered the Manhattan School of Music for three years of study and began working with bands in New York.

Shortly after graduating from MSM Mitchel began touring and recording with Gerry Mulligan, playing in both his big band and quartet. Work with Stan Getz followed. In 1980 his solo career began with a piano performance at the Newport Jazz Festival. This recording became Mitchel’s first album, “Live at Newport”.

The next few years brought new challenges to MITCHEL FORMAN with work on the road with Phil Woods, Carla Bley, Mel Torme, and Astrud Gilberto. He also recorded two solo piano albums for Soul Note and toured in Europe regularly.

FORMAN spent the early 80′s as one of the most sought after studio musicians in New York, working with a multitude of gifted artists (see discography) not the least of whom was guitarist John McLaughlin.

MITCHEL joined MacLaughlin’s Mahavishnu and spent a year and a half on the road with McLaughlin, recording and contributing to two of the band’s benchmark recordings – the seminal “Mahavishnu” and “Adventures in Radioland”.

MITCHEL FORMAN then joined legendary ex-Weather Report saxophonist Wayne Shorter, touring, recording and contributing to Shorter’s “Phantom Navigator”.

With all this world-class experience under his belt FORMAN naturally progressed to leading his own band and recorded his group debut for Windham Hill, “Train of Thought”. At the same time he continued to work with other luminaries like guitarist John Scofield (“Blue Matter”), Mike Stern (“Upside Downside”) Janis Siegal, Dave Samuels, Diane Schuur, Gary Burton (Reunion GRP), Pat Metheny, Wayne Shorter, Simon Phillips, Freddie Hubbard, Bill Evans, and Ricki Lee Jones.

MITCHEL FORMAN continues to record and play under his own name and has recently started his own record label, “Marsis Jazz”. His most recent releases have been “Perspectives” “Mr. Clean” and “Patience”, all on his own label. He also co-leads the band Metro with guitarist ,Chuck Loeb. Metro’s six albums, the debut “Metro” the follow-up “Tree People” (Lipstick), “Metrocafe”, “Metrolive”, “Express”and “Grapevine” have all met with critical acclaim. The quartet with Wolgang Haffner on drums and Mel Brown on bass tours annually in Europe.

Mitch Forman website

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Doug Webb was born in Chicago and moved to California at the age of 3. He is a graduate of Edison high school in Huntington Beach, CA and received a Bachelor of Music from Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He began playing the clarinet at the age of 8 and added saxophone and flute at 15. He lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful wife Alex and his son, Ryan.
Over his career Webb has played and recorded with such notable talents as Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Sal Marquez, Stanley Clarke, Quincy Jones, Mat Marucci, Kyle Eastwood, Billy Childs, Rod Stewart, Carly Simon, Art Davis, Kenny Rogers, Bonnie Raitt, Pancho Sanchez and Vikki Carr. He played with the house band for the Dennis Miller TV show, the Jimmy Cleveland orchestra and continues to tour with the Doc Severinsen big band. He has recorded music for hundreds of movies and television programs. He solos on the sound track for Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby. Webb has been featured on hundreds of recordings.

Doug Webb website

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Jeff Littleton website