Hank Roberts – Cello, Voice | Filippo Vignato – Trombone | Pasquale Mirra – Vibraphone | Giorgio Pacorig – Piano, Fender Rhodes | Zeno De Rossi – Drums
About
Pipe Dream is an international band featuring american cellist Hank Roberts and four of the most interesting personalities in the new italian creative scene: Pasquale Mirra, Zeno De Rossi, Giorgio Pacorig e Filippo Vignato.
The five musicians stretch among chamber music, african echoes, new music and american folk-rock, shaped in their own unique sound as a band.
Established as a live band gifted with impressive impact and magical alchemy since their debut on stage in autumn 2017, Pipe Dream performed in the most important Italian festivals including NovaraJazz, Cormons Jazz & Wine Of Peace, Crossroads, Musicus Concentus, Fano Jazz, Teatro La Fenice and many more.
The band found further confirmation in the publication of the eponymous album ‘Pipe Dream‘ (CamJazz 2018) acclaimed by Italian and international critics and reported as one of the best releases of the year (RaiRadio3, AllAboutJazz and the Giornale della Musica) and ranked #2 on the ‘Album of the Year‘ at the Top Jazz 2018 Critics Pool of historical Italian jazz magazine ‘Musica Jazz’.
Over his nearly four-decade career, Hank Roberts has forged a compelling original voice on the cello, encompassing abstract improvisation and soulful folk melodies, intricate new-music compositions and vigorous rock songs. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Roberts made his name on the legendary Downtown scene in 1980s New York. Faced with a dearth of mentors or peers on his instrument, he carved his own path through that fertile ground alongside such frequent collaborators as Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Marc Ribot and John Zorn.
Their first eponymus album ‘Pipe Dream’ will be released on September 7th, 2018 for Cam Jazz. Pre-order here or through the form at the bottom.
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Novara Jazz
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Crossroads Festival
Founded in 2000, Crossroads is a traveling exhibition throughout the territory of Emilia Romagna that since its first edition has established itself among the most original events of the Italian scene.
Novara Jazz
NovaraJazz is the main musical festival of Novara that brings to the city and the surrounding area a rich series of concerts and tastings, artistic residences, workshops and listening guides, exhibitions and installations, literary presentations and recording initiatives. A reference institution in the Italian jazz scene, NovaraJazz is one of the founders of the i-Jazz national association.
Novara Jazz
NovaraJazz is the main musical festival of Novara that brings to the city and the surrounding area a rich series of concerts and tastings, artistic residences, workshops and listening guides, exhibitions and installations, literary presentations and recording initiatives. A reference institution in the Italian jazz scene, NovaraJazz is one of the founders of the i-Jazz national association.
Jazz in provincia
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Cantine dell’Arena
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Sala Vanni
La Sala Vanni è una sala da concerti di Firenze. Il nome deriva da Giovan Battista Vanni, pittore fiorentino autore dell’affresco della Cena di Cristo in casa del Fariseo che la decora.
Ground Music Festival
Il festival jazz itinerante in Franciacorta e Val Trompia. Provincia di Brescia. Il festival che da la possibilità di godersi il jazz nelle azende agricole. Il concerto si svolgerà alle 21:30 presso azienda agricola il pendio
Ground Music Festival
Il festival jazz itinerante in Franciacorta e Val Trompia. Provincia di Brescia. Il festival che da la possibilità di godersi il jazz nelle azende agricole. Il concerto si svolgerà alle 10:00 presso la chiesa di San Michele a Ome
Artusi Jazz “Foodstock”
Festival di musica Jazz in Romagna, organizzato da “Dai de Jazz“. Il concerto si svolgerà alle 22.00 presso corte di casa artusi
Grado Jazz
Il concerto si svolgerà alle 21.30 presso il teatro pasolini
Cicaleto Concerts
Jazz Flirt
Monselice Jazz Festival
Il concerto si svolgerà alle 21.30 presso parco buzzaccarini
Venezia Jazz Festival
Il concerto si svolgerà alle 19.30 presso sale apollinee del teatro la fenice
Hank Roberts Workshop
Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige 2019
Il concerto si svolgerà alle 11.00 presso il museo di scienze naturali
Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige 2019
Il concerto si svolgerà alle 18.00 presso il centro culturale trevi
Press Quotes
A surprising incisiveness and compactness, a genuinely exciting sincerity (…) A small miracle made possible by the evident consonance between similar spirits, between convergent sensitivities (…) Overwhelming ovation for the true revelation of the festival.
Original and personal atmospheres, even if they are appealing to many musical areas: from the most avant-garde jazz, which contributes to the complexity of sound structures and mixes, to contemporary music, author of some more sublimated moments, up to American folk and blues ( …) A concert that has put on showcase a perfectly cohesive formation, made up of excellent soloists ready to exchange the front line, where next to the “American friend” took space now the trombone of an increasingly convincing Filippo Vignato, now a usual enthusiastic Pasquale Mirra, now a Giorgio Pacorig who alternated piano and Fender Rhodes, now the same Zeno De Rossi with fine and subtle soloist drums.
‘Uno scrigno pieno di meraviglie’
‘Una forza cinetica illuminante’
‘Wildly imaginative ensemble designs’
‘Un disco superlativo, tra i migliori dell’anno, assolutamente da non perdere’