Sigurta / Casagrande - Conversations

Conversations” is the first CD from the partnership of Sigurta & Casagrande on trumpet and guitar respectively.

Sigurta & Casagrande met in Boston, 2003, where both studied jazz at the Berklee College of Music

Their sound draws on classical and jazz influences. Written parts and improvisation blend seamlessly. The result is an intimate and artful music.

An immensely talented musician, Fulvio is a trumpet player in demand not only in the UK but also in his native Italy. He has played with some of the best names on the Italian jazz scene like Gianluigi Trovesi and is a member of the ECM artist Gianni Coscias’s quartet. He has also just featured on a recording date with Keith Tippett here in the UK.

In 2007 Federico Casagrande won the first prize at the Gibson Montreux Jazz Festival Guitar Competition with George Benson as president of the jury. He leads his own trio and is co-leader of a quartet with Portugese vibraphonist Jeff Davis.

Tracks from Conversations have already made it on to the play lists of RAI Radio 3 in Italy and here in the UK Sigurta has already caught the ear of the press. “Fulvio Sigurtà is outstanding on trumpet and flugel.”John L Walters in The Guardian

Come la neve 

I didn't know I can fly  

Eyes 

Joker 

Stella Alpina 

Red Cloud 

Friend 

Dedicated to my mother