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Alessio Menconi
was born in Genoa - Italy. He approached guitar when he was
10 as self-taught.Cosidered a prodigy, he start in 1986 is
professional career with best italian musicians. In 1992
he won the award as "Best Soloist" in Gran Prix
du Jazz" (Aosta-Italy). In 1993 (23 years old) he
participated, in Monteroduni-Italy in "Eddie Lang
festival"contest (the most important competitions for
guitarists in Italy), winning the first prize as
best italian jazz guitarist. He play in tour in Europe,
Asia and America and recorded in over 40 cds with several
musicians.In 1995 Paolo Conte call him for play in
several world tour until 2004 and he recorded
four cds.Billy Cobham wanted him since 1998 to 2003
to play with him in several concerts.Some collaborations:
Paolo Conte, Billy Cobham, Marcio
Montarroyos, Danny Gottlieb, Gary Husband, Enrico Rava, Bob
Mover, Daniel Humair, Flavio Boltro, Adrienne West, Dado
Moroni, Tullio De Piscopo, Franco Cerri, Albert "tootie"
Heath, Red Holloway, Plas Johnson, Franco Ambrosetti,
Rosario Giuliani, Carl Anderson, Paolo Fresu...Playing
in several festivals: London “Royal
festival hall”,Quito jazz festival, Sao Paulo
“sesc”, New York “Beacon theatre“, Nice
jazz fest.,Rio de Janeiro “centro justica
federal”, SanFrancisco jazz fest., Den
Hag, Los Angeles “Ucla”,
Bruxelles” jazz fest.”, Umbria
jazz, Paris“JVC”, Kolcata “jazz
and beyond” and many others... In May 2000 he have been
selected to play with ONJ (orchestre national du
jazz) In 2003, He partecipated as only italian to the
cd "Voodoo crossing-a tribute to Jimi Hendrix"
with Robben Ford, Steve Lukather, Hiram Bullock, Larry
Corryell and many others.Lately he did with trio a long
tour in India, in Brazil and Ecuador. He
partecipated in several TV shows and films music.Today
he plays in different own situation of jazz, latin jazz and
jazz rock, with acoustic and electrics guitars and is jazz
guitar teacher in the conservatory of Genoa
and Cuneo.
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