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Giuseppe Continenza

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Giuseppe Continenza
Background information
Born (1968-02-01) February 1, 1968 (age 56)
Turin, Italy
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)musician, composer, author
Instrumentsguitar
Years active1986-present
LabelsWide Sound
Associated actsBiréli Lagrène, Vic Juris, Gene Bertoncini, Dominique Di Piazza
Websitecontinenza.com

Giuseppe Continenza (born February 1, 1968) is an Italian guitarist from Pescara, Abruzzo.

Biography[edit]

Born in Turin, Piedmont, but always lived in Pescara, Abruzzo, he approached the study of classical guitar at the age of 7 thanks to his father Nino who was a talented jazz guitarist.[1][2]

In September 1985, he joined the Unreal Terror, an heavy metal band very active in Italy at the time and immediately demonstrating his excellent skills as a guitarist, despite his young age.[3]

After having performed in several concerts, and after having shot some video clips, in 1986 he published with the Unreal Terror the album Hard Incursion which received excellent feedback from critics and audiences, and whose single "Pulling The Switch" was included in the compilation Rock Meets Metal - Vol. II.[4]

In the early 1990s he moved to Hollywood, California, where he attended the Musicians Institute and graduated with honors, and where he also studied privately further perfecting his musical knowledge with Jeff Berlin, Joe Diorio, Ron Escheté, Robben Ford, Ted Greene, Scott Henderson, Pat Martino, Don Mock, Howard Roberts, Steve Trovato and Gary Willis.[5]

Back in Italy, he combined his career as a musician with that of a teacher.

In 1994, he founded the European Musicians Institute (EMI) in Pescara, where collaborate with him, as teachers, Howard Alden, Tuck Andress, Gene Bertoncini, Paul Bollenback, Jimmy Bruno, Dominique Di Piazza, Joe Diorio, Robben Ford, Scott Henderson, Vic Juris, Biréli Lagrène, John Stowell, Jack Wilkins and Gary Willis.[6]

Later, he joined the teaching staff of the Conservatory of music "Luisa D'Annunzio" where he is head of jazz guitar department.[7]

Particularly appreciated by critics, who count him among the best European jazz guitarists of the new generation, his style ranges from modern jazz to bebop, to mainstream-jazz.[8]

He has played and carries out an intense concert activity as a leader or in formations ranging from duo to quintet, with Michael Baker, Rossana Casale, Gene Bertoncini, Jimmy Bruno, Pietro Iodice, Biréli Lagrène, Martin Taylor, Geoff Warren, Gary Willis, and many others.[9][10][11][12][13][14]

He has performed in important jazz music festivals, including the Beat Onto Jazz Festival (Bitonto, 2013), the Pescara Jazz (Pescara, 2013), the Eddie Lang Jazz Festival (Monteroduni, 2013), the Jazzkaar (Tallinn, 2019) and others.[15][16][17][18]

The performances at Pescara Jazz and at the Eddie Lang Jazz Festival were filmed, respectively, in a short film for TV and in a film, to which the writer David Meeker has dedicated several pages of his book "Jazz On The Screen".[19][20]

His collaboration with Biréli Lagrène began in 1998, when they met in backstage of a festival and started talking about their mutual musical interests.[21]

In 2000 they performed their first tour together and, even today, their collaboration continues on stage both as a duo and as a quartet together with the bassist Gary Willis and the drummer Michael Baker.[22]

Together with Vic Juris, known thanks to the mutual friend Joe Diorio, in 2003 he released his first jazz album, Journey, which contains ten well-known jazz standards reinterpreted in a personal way.[23][24][25]

The album, whose liner notes were written by Roy Patterson, is cited in the bibliographic notes of the book "The Recorder: A Journal of the American Irish Historical Society" in the paragraph dedicated to "Bronze By Gold" by Louis Stewart, where the author defines the requirements of a well-rounded jazz set.[26]

For the record label Wide Sound, he released Seven Steps To Heaven, a ten-track album recorded with the participation of the guitarist Vic Juris, the bassist Dominique Di Piazza and the drummer Pietro Iodice, which has received excellent feedback from critics and audience, ranking fourth of best-selling jazz albums on iTunes, while the single "Stella By Starlight” was in 2nd place.[27][28][29][8]

He writes columns and guitar lessons in various magazines such as Just Jazz Guitar, Jazz Guitar Today, Guitar Club and Chitarra Acustica.[30][31][32]

He collaborates as an endorser with Benedetto Guitars, of which he plays a Cremona Custom built personally by Robert Benedetto, as well as with the Buscarini, DV Mark, Seymour Duncan and La Bella companies.[33][34]

Discography (partial)[edit]

Unreal Terror[edit]

  • 1986 - Unreal Terror, Hard Incursion (Action Label Productions – ACT 33005)

Soloist[edit]

  • 2003 - Journey, with Vic Juris (Jardis - JRCD 20345)
  • 2003 - Seven Steps To Heaven, with Vic Juris, Dominique Di Piazza, Pietro Iodice (Wide Sound, WD 133)

Compilations[edit]

  • 1987 - Rock Meets Metal - Volume II (Ebony Records – EBON S105)
  • 2004 - Jazz Magazine Vol. 21 (New Sounds 2000, JM 21)

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Lobuono, Domenico (September 2015). "In tour in Italia. Intervista a Biréli Lagrène e Giuseppe Continenza". Chitarra Acustica (in italiano): 18–21. Retrieved September 4, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Giuseppe Continenza". Jazzitalia.net (in italiano). February 26, 2001. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
  3. ↑ Petrovic, Klaus (2017). Unreal Terror … rules the night (in italiano). Falconara Marittima: Crac Edizioni. ISBN 978-8897389415. Search this book on
  4. ↑ "Unreal Terror". Metal.it (in italiano). Retrieved September 3, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ "Giuseppe Continenza". All About Jazz. Retrieved September 4, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ "Bireli Lagrene & Giuseppe Continenza". Jazzconvention (in italiano). July 2001. Retrieved September 4, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ "Elenco docenti A.A. 2020/2021". Conservatorio di Musica "L. D'Annunzio" di Pescara. Retrieved September 5, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Becker, Paul (August 2015). "Biréli Lagrène & Giuseppe Continenza "Virtuoso Jazz Guitarists and more..."". Just Jazz Guitar: 88–93. Retrieved September 4, 2021.
  9. ↑ Coppa Zuccari, Chiara. "Programma settimana mozartiana 2013". Documen.site (in italiano). Retrieved September 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ "Musica jazz al Parco dei Gesuiti". Pagine Abruzzo (in italiano). July 24, 2009. Retrieved September 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  11. ↑ "Giuseppe Continenza". Jazz Guitar Today. Retrieved September 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  12. ↑ "Pescara jazz all'Aurum". il Centro (in italiano). July 11, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  13. ↑ "Rossana Casale e il Di Fulvio Quintet". il Centro (in italiano). August 23, 2020. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  14. ↑ Ranghelli, Claudio (March 12, 2006). "Giuseppe Continenza e Gene Bertoncini". Jazzitalia (in italiano). Retrieved September 14, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  15. ↑ "Si chiude il Beat Onto Jazz Festival con grandi ospiti". Da Bitonto (in italiano). August 4, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  16. ↑ "Festival Internazionale del Jazz Edizione 2013". Pescara Jazz (in italiano). Retrieved September 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  17. ↑ "Giuseppe Continenza". Eddie Lang Jazz Festival (in italiano). Retrieved September 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  18. ↑ "Nõmme Jazz korraldab 7 Noorte Jazzartistide Konkursi". Jazzkaar (in eesti). Retrieved September 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  19. ↑ "Pescara Jazz Festival 2013". Library of Congress. Retrieved September 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  20. ↑ "Eddie Lang Jazz Festival 2013". Library of Congress. Retrieved September 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  21. ↑ Williams, Charles (November 12, 2019). "Bireli Lagrene and Giuseppe Continenza, European Masters". Jazz Guitar Today. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  22. ↑ Boddi, Enzo (July 1, 2013). "Pescara (Italie)". Jazz Hot (in français). Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  23. ↑ Ciminiera, Fabio (2003). "Intervista a Dominique Di Piazza". Jazzconvention (in italiano). Retrieved September 4, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  24. ↑ "Vic Juris, Giuseppe Continenza. Journey". Jazzitalia (in italiano). September 6, 2003. Retrieved September 4, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  25. ↑ Collins, Jay (December 1, 2003). "Vic Juris/Giuseppe Continenza, "Journey"". Cadence. 29 (12): 47–48. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  26. ↑ The American Irish Historical Society (2005). Cahill, Christopher, ed. The Recorder: A Journal of the American Irish Historical Society. 18, Nos. 1 & 2. New York: The Institute for America Irish Studies at Pace University. pp. 142–153. Search this book on
  27. ↑ Ayroldi, Alceste (March 3, 2005). "Giuseppe Continenza, Vic Juris, Dominique di Piazza, Pietro Iodice. Seven Steps To Heaven". Jazzitalia (in italiano). Retrieved September 4, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  28. ↑ Furfaro, Amedeo (2014). Il giro del jazz in 80 dischi (in italiano). Cosenza, Italy: CJG. pp. 125–126. Search this book on
  29. ↑ "Jazz meets flamenco. Giuseppe Continenza & Daniele Bonaviri Duo". Teatri in Comune (in italiano). March 3, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  30. ↑ "Giuseppe Continenza". Benedetto Guitars. Retrieved September 3, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  31. ↑ Continenza, Giuseppe (May 28, 2020). "Chromatic Movable Shapes – What the Government Doesn't Want You to Know". Jazz Guitar Today. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  32. ↑ Continenza, Giuseppe (June 15, 2021). "Giuseppe Continenza's Chord Melody Secrets Revealed, Part 1". Jazz Guitar Today. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  33. ↑ "Giuseppe Continenza - chitarra". Jazzitalia (in italiano). February 26, 2001. Retrieved September 13, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  34. ↑ "Giuseppe Continenza". DV Mark. Retrieved September 14, 2021. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)



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