JIM SNIDERO QUARTET (USA/IT)

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JIM SNIDERO QUARTET (US/IT)

Grammy-winning alto saxophonist, composer and author Jim Snidero gets to the heart of what is so unique and captivating about jazz. Hailed as an "alto saxophone virtuoso" (Downbeat) with "astounding" improvisational skills (The Guardian), he has amassed over 12 million streams on Spotify and Apple Music and presents acoustic jazz of the highest caliber, including his 2021 album Live at the Deer Head Inn (Savant), which received a 5-star rating in Downbeat Magazine.

Growing up in Camp Springs, Maryland, near Washington, DC, Snidero immediately fell in love with jazz as a teenager and studied with jazz giants Phil Woods and David Liebman, then studied at the U of North Texas and became a member of the famed One O'Clock Lab Band. After arriving in New York in 1981 at the age of 23, Snidero Snidero first got on the jazz radar when he joined Brother Jack McDuff's band and recorded two albums with a jazz great. This was the first of many notable sideman stops including the Mingus Big Band, Eddie Palmieri, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Frank Wess, Sting, Frank Sinatra and Brian Lynch (who won a Grammy as a soloist) to name a few.

Snidero was credited with On Time (Toshiba/EMI 1984), the first of 25 notable notable dates he would record under his own name. An early high point was Blue Afternoon (Criss Cross, 1989), named in the Penguin Jazz Guide as one of the best jazz records in history. Penguin Jazz Guide: The History Of The Music In The 1001 Best Albums. And his album Strings (Milestone, 2003/Savant 2022), which he both composed and arranged for a string ensemble and which has been hailed as a "masterpiece" (San Francisco Guardian), is considered one of the best in the genre.

For the past 15 years, Snidero has been on the highly respected Highnote/Savant label, earning him a perennial ranking in the prestigious Downbeat Magazine International Critics Poll. Highlights of his Savant catalog include the critically acclaimed Far Far Away with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Project K with Dave Douglas and the aforementioned Live at the Deer Head Inn.

In 1996, Jim Snidero revolutionized jazz education by publishing the first of three jazz book series "Jazz Conception" (Advance), cementing his place as the best-selling jazz author of his generation, and then continued his contributions with The Essence of the Blues (2018) and The Essence of Bebop (2020), considered a masterpiece of jazz pedagogy. He is a member of the New School faculty and has been a visiting professor at Indiana University and Princeton University.

With:
Jim Snidero - alto sax (USA)
Bruno Montrone - piano (Italy)
Doug Weiss - bass (USA)
Rick Hollander - drums (USA)