MARIO PAVONE

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Mario Pavone (November 11, 1940 – May 15, 2021) was an American jazz bassist, composer and bandleader.

Pavone was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. Pavone attended B. W. Tinker grammar school, Leavenworth High School, and the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he graduated with a B.S. in engineering. When his Town Plot neighbor, world-renowned guitarist Joe Diorio, recognized him as an unrealized musician Mario was inspired to take up the bass. Primarily self-taught, he was a natural on his instrument. Pavone began playing bass soon after witnessing John Coltrane at the Village Vanguard in 1961.

His career took off in the 1960s when he toured Europe. Also in the 1960s, he was involved in the jazz loft era, playing in jam sessions nightly in New York City.

He began performing in 1965. The New Haven-based Creative Musicians Improvising Forum (CMIF) was founded in 1975 by Pavone, Wadada Leo Smith, and Gerry Hemingway, influenced
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Digit
Avant-Garde Jazz 1979
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Shodo
Avant-Garde Jazz 1981
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Sharpeville
Avant-Garde Jazz 1988
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Toulon Days
Avant-Garde Jazz 1992
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Song For (Septet)
Avant-Garde Jazz 1994
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Dancers Tales
Avant-Garde Jazz 1997
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Remembering Thomas/ Nu Trio
Avant-Garde Jazz 1999
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Totem Blues
Avant-Garde Jazz 2000
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Motion Poetry
Avant-Garde Jazz 2000
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Op-Ed
Avant-Garde Jazz 2001
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Mythos
Avant-Garde Jazz 2002
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Orange
Avant-Garde Jazz 2003
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Boom
Avant-Garde Jazz 2004
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Deez to Blues
Avant-Garde Jazz 2006
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Trio Arc
Avant-Garde Jazz 2008
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Ancestors
Avant-Garde Jazz 2008
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Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po
Avant-Garde Jazz 2010
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Street Songs
Avant-Garde Jazz 2014
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Blue Dialect
Avant-Garde Jazz 2015
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Vertical
Avant-Garde Jazz 2017
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Dialect Trio : Chrome
Avant-Garde Jazz 2017
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Mario Pavone Dialect Trio : Philosophy
Avant-Garde Jazz 2019
MARIO PAVONE Mario Pavone Dialect Trio +1 : Blue Vertical album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mario Pavone Dialect Trio +1 : Blue Vertical
Avant-Garde Jazz 2021
MARIO PAVONE Mario Pavone The Tampa Quartet : Isabella album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Mario Pavone The Tampa Quartet : Isabella
21st Century Modern 2021

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Avant-Garde Jazz 2013

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