Giuseppe Paradiso Meridian 71 at The Press Room

SUNDAY NIGHT JAZZ FT. GIUSEPPE PARADISO & MERIDIAN 71.
"Metropolitan Sketches" album release tour.

Giuseppe Paradiso- drum set
Mark Zaleski - alto & soprano sax, clarinet
Utar Artun - piano & keys
Galen Willett - elec. fretless bass
Malick Ngom - sabar drums


Meridian 71 is a music and a cross-cultural project created and led since 2012 by Italian and Boston-resident drummer, composer Giuseppe Paradiso. The name Meridian 71 comes from Boston’s longitude – the Meridian 71 West that passes exactly through East Boston; “location where I met musicians from different parts of the globe with whom deeply connected and spoke a same language. It felt like I had known for a long time that at some point in my life I would have met musicians just like them, from way before moving across the Atlantic in 2008” (G. Paradiso). The Meridian 71 becomes then the creative laboratory and space to develop this music....

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SUNDAY NIGHT JAZZ FT. GIUSEPPE PARADISO & MERIDIAN 71.
"Metropolitan Sketches" album release tour.

Giuseppe Paradiso- drum set
Mark Zaleski - alto & soprano sax, clarinet
Utar Artun - piano & keys
Galen Willett - elec. fretless bass
Malick Ngom - sabar drums


Meridian 71 is a music and a cross-cultural project created and led since 2012 by Italian and Boston-resident drummer, composer Giuseppe Paradiso. The name Meridian 71 comes from Boston’s longitude – the Meridian 71 West that passes exactly through East Boston; “location where I met musicians from different parts of the globe with whom deeply connected and spoke a same language. It felt like I had known for a long time that at some point in my life I would have met musicians just like them, from way before moving across the Atlantic in 2008” (G. Paradiso). The Meridian 71 becomes then the creative laboratory and space to develop this music.

Featuring a very eclectic and international ensemble of well-established musicians Boston-based, “Metropolitan Sketches” is their second release, following the debut album in 2012 “Otherness Collection”, both featuring original compositions by G. Paradiso.

A music that crosses boundaries, characterized by a very unique voice and a global sound with influences that range manly from Jazz and improvised music to Mediterranean and West-African music traditions, it is the representation of an extensive and ongoing research into various traditions and cultures.

Official Press Release: https://giuseppeparadiso.rockpaperscissors.biz/
Website: www.giuseppe-paradiso.com

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