Rome, Latium, Italy
Steve Mariani Double bass and electric bass player “Active since the 80s, he has worked in various musical genres from progressive to jazz. He collaborated with many great Italian artists including: Nini Rosso, Massimo Urbani, Franco Bolignari, Fabio Mariani, Marcello Rosa, Leo Cancellieri, Enzo Scoppa, Tony Formichella, Carlo Battisti, Andrea Beneventano, Riccardo Biseo, Ettore Gentile, Enrico Zanisi, Alberto Parmegiani, Ezio Zaccagnini, etc ... He participated on 3 April 1998 with the Joe De Vecchis Jazz Quintet at the Ciampino Jazz Festival and at the "National Jazz Music Competition" Baronissi (June 1998). With the Joe De Vecchis Jazz Quartet he recorded the album "Triathlon", published by ISMA Record in February 2003 On June 4, 2003 he participated, with Joe De Vecchis and Arturo Valiante, to the radio broadcast "Misteri della notte" on Radio Uno Rai conducted by Elisabetta Grande and Sandro Capitani directed by Ugo Traini. In 2004 he founded Lestrio, a band with which he also experimented with his leadership as composer and arranger. From 2009 to 2012 he collaborated with Fabio Mariani with whom he performed throughout Italy both in Trio and in the Fabio Mariani Group. In 2010 he participated to the arrangements and recording of the album "Cyber Alice" made by guitarist Alberto Tebaldi. He collaborated with Rosario Fugà and his jazz quartet, with whom he recorded the group's second CD in June 2013. In 2013 with Alessandro Picucci (cajon and percussion), Roberto Palermo (accordion) and Omar Darder (piano) founded Alma de Tango, a band that traces the furrow of Maestro Astor Piazzolla in the proposition of Tango Nuevo and opens to the contamination of other styles and / or musical genres , focusing its sound on acoustic elements and respecting the emotional amplitude suggested by Piazzolla's notes. With Alma de Tango, in September 2013 he released a CD called "Alma de Tango plays Piazzolla ... and others", where the "others" are represented by songs written by Richard Galliano, Roberto Palermo and by Steve himself. In 2017 he produced the CD TangoSphère with the collaboration of Alma de Tango containing only music he composed. In August 2017 he participated with Giazz Quintet at the MuntagninJazz Festival in Anversa degli Abruzzi. He composed the music and co-directed as director at the comedy of Monica Vecchio MAI DIRE MAI, who made his debut at the San Luca Theater in Rome on February 16, 2019.
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la musica è la mia vita.... ho sempre suonato anche durante le altre attività lavorative. Ho studiato prevalentemente da solo, col contributo di amici e tanta curiosità e mi sono perfezionato seguendo corsi al St. Louis Music School ed al CIAC di Roma. Da alcuni anni mi sto dedicando alla composizione. Sono anche leader di una band, L4, oltre che freelance performer.