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Emanuele Cisi

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Emanuele Cisi May 11, 2014

Tenor sax, soprano sax, composer

“ When I first heard him, his big sound almost knocked me over. I couldn't believe it. But then the things he was playing fully touched the deepest grotto of my heart. This man is an "adventurer" just like the wild game hunter in Africa who hunts dangerous lions and tigers. Why do I say this? Because he's not afraid to take chances concerning the things he conceives from his imagination. He gives his ideas life and breath as he creates things that did not exist before. Taking chances -- and not playing it safe -- is where one discovers new things waiting there to be discovered.
Emanuele exists and plays with one foot in the present and the other in the future.”


Benny Golson, September 2005

“Emanuele Cisi plays with drive and sensitività and is a lyrical musician with a strong personality. As a saxophonist and composer he is developing into one of the most personal voices on the European jazz scene today.”


Joe Lovano, July 2000

“Concept, communication, sensitivity, character, lyricism, tone, swing, colors, textures, - communion with nature – Emanuele have this – even maturity.
Is the light? The food? Or the seas surrounding three sides? – Italy is a fertile ground for the creative impulse. He honors the tradition with his musical offering.”


Charles Lloyd, October 1996


"Emanuele Cisi has it all. Sound,
Time and a great imagination. He has his own voice that inspires me"


Jerry Bergonzi, September 2011


Emanuele Cisi and I have grown a great deal since we first met in 1984; as musicians and as people. While a great saxophone player, he is an even better musician, which is ultimately what this is all about.
Branford Marsalis, August 2013

New York is where you belong. Great things will now happen for you because you are one of the great ones.
Benny Golson, October 2013


Born in Torino, Italy, in 1964, self-thaugt musician, he’s one of the most representative voices in today’s international jazz scene.
His unique tone, along with a deep knowledge of the tradition mixed with a personal taste for composition, are became a landmark for jazz lovers.
Since he won the Musica Jazz magazine critic’s prize in Italy as New Best Talent back in 1995, he recorded 12 cd’s as a leader or co-leader and more than 50 as a sideman, for labels based in Italy, France, Belgium, Japan and U.S.A.
During his career, he played and recorded with many great artists like Clark Terry, Jimmy Cobb, Albert Tootie Heat, Walter Booker, Joe Chambers, Ron Carter, George Cables, Nat Adderley, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Owens, Billy Hart, Cameron Brown, Billy Cobham, Joey Calderazzo, Kenny Wheleer, Aldo Romano, Daniel Humair, Enrico Pieranunzi, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Sting and many many others.
He has toured extensively in Europe, U.S., China, Oceania, South America.
In spring 2012, the north american première of the Detroit Torino Urban Jazz Project (a multimedia project he founded in and co-leaded since 2006 with the Detroit born tenor player Chris Collins) took place at the Detroit Orchestra Hall along with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
In last years he also recorded and toured extensively around Europe as a jazz soloist with the baroque ensemble “La Venexiana”, considered as a world class interpreter of Monteverdi’s music.
He’s visiting more and more the U.S. scene, and his new trio project, recorded in New York, has been released in October 2013 for the prominent jazz label Maxjazz.
Since 2013 he conceived and promoted a collaboration between the Conservatory of Torino and the Juilliard Jazz School of New York, through workshops and concerts in the frame of the Torino Jazz Festival.

He’s full professor of Jazz Saxophone at the Conservatory of Torino since 2012.

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