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Pasquale Calò

Born in Barletta on June 19th 1987, he started the study of the saxophone from the young age of 12, in the “N.Piccinni Conservatory” of Bari, in the classical saxophone class of the teacher Ausonio Calò.

He studied in various workshop and master on improvisation, including "International Festival of the Saxophone City of Faenza" 2003 and 2004 and In.Ja.m (International Jazz Master, 2009-2011) at the Siena Jazz Fondation, where he had the opportunity to study with great personalities of international jazz as George Garzone, Achille Succi, Ralph Alessi, Enrico Rava, Gianluca Petrella, Michael Blake, Jeff Ballard, Billy Hart, Tim Berne, Anders Jormin, Nguyen Lee, Steve Turrè, Gianluigi Trovesi, Marc Ducret, Bruno Tommaso, etc.

From 2003 to 2008 he worked with Project Impression on a multidisciplinary artistic path, based on the codification of multidisciplinary interplay mechanisms in rhythmic music.

Between 2007 and 2008 he lived between Italy and Spain, where he performed in various concerts working on the fusion between jazz and folk musics (flamenco and sephardic music) strongly based on improvisation.

He has collaborated with the improvisers Collective Franco Ferguson (Rome) and the CrossRoads (Naples) since autumn 2009.
A few months later he founded the improvisers Collective Mediterraneo Radicale. The Collective is still active in many European cities with artists from all over the world. With the Collective he founded urban laboratories on radical improvisation in various Italian cities, recovering and developing the idea of a multidisciplinary creative art strong of different languages perfectly interpenetrated between them (contemporary music-dance-circus-visual arts- theater etc.).

He taught saxophone, harmony and several masterclasses on geometric harmonic systems and improvised music in Italy (Torino-Milano-Bari, 2010-2021), Spain (Cordoba-Vilanova i la Geltrù, 2006-2011/2021) and Brazil (Rio De Janeiro, 2019).
From 2012 to 2017 he lived between Turin and Milan, where he collaborated with numerous artists and coordinated the work of Mediterraneo Radicale Collective and the indie label of music related to improvisation Mediterranean Creative Records; he carries on the research project L.U.R.S.M. (Urban Laboratories of Research and Musical Experimentation, 2010-2017) and L.U.M.I. (Urban Laboratories of Improvised Music, 2018-2019) in the cities of Turin, Milan, Bologna, Bari, Barletta and Terlizzi.

During his career he played in Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands and Switzerland.
He played with great personalities of jazz, improvised and electroacoustic music including Gianluca Petrella Cosmic Renaissance, Achille Succi, Antonello Salis, Furio Di Castri, Eugenio Colombo, Nicola Conte, Gianluigi Trovesi, Bruno Tommaso, Andrea Dulbecco, Kaja Draksler, Gianluca Elia, Franz Rosati, etc.

Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella: People Need People

Read "People Need People" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 12, 2021

For over twenty years, the Italian producer, composer and guitarist Nicola Conte has pursued a resolutely independent path in jazz and jazz-related music. The Schema label, with whom he has almost exclusively partnered since his breakthrough album, 2000's acid-jazz masterpiece Jet Sounds, is based in the fashion-centric northern city of Milan. But Conte nearly always records at Sorisso Studio in his hometown, Bari, a seaport on the heel of Italy's boot on the country's southern Adriatic coast. This off-the-beaten-track location ...