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ENRICO
CRIVELLARO (I) & RAPHAEL WRESSNIG COMBO (A/USA)
Saturday, July 7th, 18.00
Enrico Crivellaro - guitar
Raphael Wressnig - hammond b3
Lukas Knöfler - drums
Scott Steen - trumpet
Paul Griesbach - tenorsax
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..Enrico Crivellaro 
..Raphael Wressnig
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Born
in Padova, Italy, but later relocating to Los Angeles, Enrico Crivellaro
has been able to prove that passion and talent can transcend political
and cultural borders, becoming a well-respected, upcoming figure in
the international blues scene. His versatility in different musical
genres has allowed him to build an extraordinary experience, playing
all over the world with blues, rock, jazz and country bands.
He began to play the guitar at a young age, soon showing a serious
interest in the blues and in the various forms of traditional American
music, such as jazz, swing, zydeco, country, gospel. Still in his
teens he formed his own trio, with which he began to perform professionally
all around Italy, averaging over twenty gigs per month--while in the
meantime he was taking lessons (and inspiration) from guitar great
Tolo Marton.
A scholarship, obtained through a demo tape, helped him become a student
at the National Guitar Workshop in Connecticut, USA, where he had
the opportunity to take classes with some of the masters of blues
guitar--Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard, Kenny Neal, Paul Rishell, Roy
Bookbinder, John Jackson. Interestingly, one of his classmates and
friends--at the time only fourteen years old and already a prodigy--was
one of today’s guitar sensations, Sean Costello.
The experience at the Guitar Workshop and the encouragement of his
teachers, particularly Earl and Robillard, convinced Enrico to take
the big step and relocate to Boston. There he soon met Muddy Waters’
legendary guitarist, Luther “Guitar Jr.” Johnson, with
whom he played in several occasions; he also enjoyed Boston’s
stimulating music environment, jamming frequently with some of New
England’s best known blues and jazz players, including Broadcasters’
pianist/organist Bruce Katz and drummer Per Hanson. He also teamed
up with a young local harmonica player, Jason Ricci, who had lived
in the Deep South and had been a member of Junior Kimbrough and his
Soul Blues Boys. The friendship was to grow very significant for Crivellaro:
in fact, Ricci became his guide in Mississippi, introducing him to
the great local bluesmen--Junior Kimbrough, T-Model Ford, R.L. Burnside.
The two ended up recording together in Memphis, with two very special
drummers: Junior’s son Kinney Kimbrough, and Magic Sam and Earl
Hooker’s bandmate Bobby Little.
After the period in Boston, Enrico decided to move to the milder climate
of Los Angeles. Just two months later he scored second ranking in
a state competition organized by Fender Guitars, which awarded him
with an invitation to perform at the prestigious 1997 Fender Catalina
Island Blues Festival, opening for Jimmie Vaughan. In addition, his
relocation to California gave him the chance to play, tour and record
with some of the West Coast’s best blues bands, including the
James Harman Band, the Janiva Magness Band, the Freddie Brooks Band,
Lynwood Slim, and the late Lester Butler’s incredible punk-rock-blues
unit called “13”. With all of these bands Enrico has toured
the United States and Europe extensively, playing some of the most
renowned club and festival stages, often sharing the bill with or
opening shows for the greatest names in the business--John Lee Hooker,
B.B. King, Mose Allison, Anson Funderburgh, Bill Wyman, Buddy Guy,
Johnny Winter, John Mayall. He also plays regularly with a myriad
of top-notch artists, such as singer and Freddie King’s bass
player Finis Tasby, John Lee Hooker’s organist Deacon Jones,
guitarists Junior Watson, Alex Schultz, Kirk “Eli” Fletcher,
Kid Ramos, Rick Holmstrom, Abu Talib (aka Freddie Robinson), Roy “Guitar”
Gaines, Cal Green, Johnny Turner, and with Los Angeles’ legendary
bluesman J.J. “Bad Boy” Jones. Among his best appearances
can be counted the 1999 Long Beach Blues Festival, where he performed
with Chicago harp player Sugar Blue, and was invited to jam with Al
Green’s band. He also recalls fondly a jam with a drunk Roger
Clinton, brother of President Bill.
In Los Angeles, Enrico’s mature knowledge of 1940’s jazz
guitar styles was recognized by the swing-rock band Royal Crown Revue,
renowned for being featured in the movie “The Mask.” The
band took him to Australia for a tour that included a performance
at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics Games, and the participation at the
Livid Festival in Brisbane, in front of 80,000 spectators and along
with Lou Reed, The Cure, Green Day, No Doubt and several other rock
bands.
Despite the difficulties induced by continuous touring, Enrico found
the time to complete his studies and graduate at University of California
Los Angeles (UCLA). His interest in African-American culture, of which
music is undeniably a building block, allowed him to actualize the
dream to study with the director of the UCLA Jazz Department, his
long-time jazz guitar hero Kenny Burrell. Although Enrico doesn’t
consider himself a true jazz-bebop player, it is obvious that his
refined rhythm playing (so appreciated by blues singers and harmonica
players!) displays echoes of Burrell, as well as of those musicians
who combine the sophistication of jazz with the funkiness of blues--such
as pianists Gene Harris and Les McCann, organist Jimmy McGriff, and
guitarists T-Bone Walker and George Benson. The jazz influence in
his playing has definitely been stimulated by the lessons that he
took from George Benson’s bandmate Phil Upchurch, and by the
seminar that he attended with virtuoso Robben Ford.
Enrico Crivellaro is a quite articulate and elegant player, who not
only knows in detail several musical styles, but who also tries to
smooth off the boundaries between them. His attempt is to make music
that is interesting rather than conceptual, and that doesn’t
forget the two basic rules of blues and Black Music: groove and dynamics.
A quick look at some of Enrico’s regular or occasional jam partners
can confirm that his guitar playing branches out in hundreds of, often
unexpected, directions: from blues players, like Little Charlie and
the Nightcats or Junior Watson, to rockers such as Tracy Guns and
Teddy Andreas of Guns’n’Roses and L.A. Guns, Eric Singer
(drummer for Kiss), and Peter Tork of The Monkees; from jumping jazz
organists like Red Young (Joan Armatrading), Oscar Marchioni, Mike
Finnigan (Jimi Hendrix, Taj Mahal), to country pickers Al Bruno (Chet
Atkins), Marty Rifkin (Bruce Springsteen), or James Intveld; from
lions of the Doo-Wop such as Eddie Daniels of The Platters or Ice-T
backing singers The Real Seductions, to Brazilian bossa nova guitarist
Beto di Franco and to zydeco accordion players like Jimmy Thibodeaux.
No matter what kind of music he is playing--could it be gospel or
fusion--Enrico Crivellaro likes to be in the context, yet without
forgetting that the roots are in the blues.
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