Wave - Marcio Montarroyos-Alessio Menconi in Rio de Janeiro

Live a "Espaco bis" Rio de Janeiro 2006
Alessio Menconi was born in Genoa - Italy. He approached guitar when he was 10 as self-taught.Cosidered a prodigy, he start in 1986 is professional career with best italian musicians. In 1992 he won the award as "Best Soloist" in Gran Prix du Jazz" (Aosta-Italy). In 1993 (23 years old) he participated, in Monteroduni-Italy in "Eddie Lang festival"contest (the most important competitions for guitarists in Italy), winning the first prize as best italian jazz guitarist. He play in tour in Europe, Asia and America and recorded in over 40 cds with several musicians. In 1995 Paolo Conte call him for play in several world tour until 2004 and he recorded four cds.Billy Cobham wanted him since 1998 to 2003 to play with him in several concerts.Some collaborations: Paolo Conte, Billy Cobham, Marcio Montarroyos, Danny Gottlieb, Gary Husband, Enrico Rava, Bob Mover, Daniel Humair, Flavio Boltro, Adrienne West, Dado Moroni, Roberto Gatto, Tullio De Piscopo, Franco Cerri, Albert "tootie" Heath, Red Holloway, Franco Ambrosetti, Rosario Giuliani, Carl Anderson, Paolo Fresu...Playing in several festivals: London "Royal festival hall",Quito jazz festival, Sao Paulo "sesc", New York "Beacon theatre", Nice jazz fest.,Rio de Janeiro "centro justica federal", SanFrancisco jazz fest., Den Hag, Los Angeles "Ucla", Bruxelles" jazz fest.", Umbria jazz, Paris"JVC", Kolcata "jazz and beyond" and many others... In May 2000 he have been selected to play with ONJ (orchestre national du jazz) In 2003, He partecipated as only italian to the cd "Voodoo crossing-a tribute to Jimi Hendrix" with Robben Ford, Steve Lukather, Hiram Bullock, Larry Corryell and many others.Lately he did with trio a long tour in India, in Brazil and Ecuador. He partecipated in several TV shows and films music.Today he plays in different own situation of jazz, latin jazz and jazz rock, with acoustic and electrics guitars and is jazz guitar teacher in the conservatory of Genoa and Cuneo.

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[09cinder]

Beautiful!

[markatier]

Wow!, Smooth groove. I really like . Never heard of Marcio.

Will check out more. Nice post

[jujulion91]

Encantamento total. Esse músico está tocando no céu, merecimento de sua musicalidade fabulosa conhecida por poucos.

[joserenatovidal]

Marcio Montarroyos, que pena que nao conheci em vida, que musico, como toca, que loucura, me penitencio por nao conhece-lo pessoalmente...