PINO MINAFRA
Avant-Garde Jazz / Eclectic Fusion / Third Stream / 21st Century Modern • Italy
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This instigator of the Italian Instabile Orchestra was born in 1951 in Ruvo, a small town in Apulia where he still lives and teaches. Pino Minafra sang in the church choir before starting on the trumpet in his hometown's brass band. He then worked in a classical group, but in 1980 began his career as a jazz soloist, and eventually a composer and leader of his own group. While gaining national and international exposure with his first ensemble, Praxis, he soon began to create events, contemporary jazz concerts in the South of Italy being even rarer than in the rest of the country. An improvised trio with Dutch musicians Ernst Reijseger and Han Bennink is documented on record (Noci...strani Frutti, Leo); his own quintet/sextet released Colori, (Splasc(h) 1986), while the well-received Sudori was released in Canada (Victo 1995). Considered a master of the trumpet and flügelhorn, Minafra plays energetic and
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Sudori
Eclectic Fusion
1995
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Terronia
21st Century Modern
2005
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