Biography

Born in 1974, Phil Cavalieri grew up in an era where jazz-rock was at it's peak. His formative musical years took place in Ferrara (Italy) where he played in the clubs with all kinds of bands playing everything from Jimi Hendrix to Barry White. As he was learning his instrument, Phil was influenced by Santana, Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, and the guitarist of the classic rock band of the seventies. Even though Cavalieri claims to be more of a blues-rock player, it was the influence of jazz that led him to the style of playing and composing in a different way of look at the improvisation.
Phil finished school and then moved to Holland where he studied and played with different jazz players , like Jan Kuiper, Winfred Buma and Leonardo Amuedo and attended the workshop of John Abercombie, Charlie Haden, Scott Henderson, Gary Willis, John Taylor, Tuck Andrews.
Cavalieri started to play as pro in different bands around Italy in the middle nighties and in the meanwhile Phil has proven himself as a full class player and composer.
In 2000, he started to play and compose with an independent label called “ Stranisuoni” and worked in different projects with the Italian pop singer Luca Bui, and bring his new tunes on national broadcast.
After this experience of commercial music he turned back to jazz music and started again a new season of studies that took him far from the music for a full immersion research for a personal way of playing and compose. He attended the classes of new generation Italian jazz player like Paolo Ghetti, Fabio Petretti and graduated himself with a study in John Scofield music.
The new way as independent artist started with the new composition that reflects the interest of the outside playing of John Scofield and the latest Wayne Krantz. The result it this new self release called “ The first third” that mix outside playing and a bit of psychedelic (“never forget the Grateful Dead!” seems to read between the guitar strings), where Phil played different instruments in every tracks, with of course the guitar as main instrument; that will be sell soon on Cdbacy jazz department.
He currently teaches and play in Ferrara and he is now writing his method of outside playing for fusion jazz guitarist, a revolutionary way for students to study the pluralities of outside playing with guitar.





Italian version:

Nome Gruppo: Phil Cavalieri
Provenienza: Italia ( Ferrara)
Genere: jazz/fusion Influenze: John, Scofield, Chuck Loeb, Medescky Martin e wood, Wayne Krantz

Descrizione/Storia: Nato nel 1974 a Ferrara, Phil Cavalieri è cresciuto in un'epoca in cui il jazz-rock era al suo apice. , Phil è stato influenzato da Santana, Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, ed i chitarristi dei gruppi rock classici degli anni settanta. Anche se Cavalieri conferma di essere più di un musicista blues-rock , fu l'influenza del jazz che lo ha portato al modo di suonare e comporre in un modo diverso di guardare alla improvvisazione. Dopo aver rivestito per lungo tempo il ruolo di musicista turnista sia live che in studio, Phil Cavalieri ora come artista indipendente, ha iniziato con una concezione nuova che riflette l'interesse nell' outside playing di John Scofield e di Wayne Krantz sviluppando progressivamente un proprio modo di esprimersi che si rilette sia sulla composizione che sullo strumento. Il risultato è il suo nuovo album, "The first third", che mescola jazz e un po 'di psichedelia ("Non dimenticare mai i Grateful Dead!" sembra di leggere tra le corde della chitarra), dove Phil suona diversi strumenti e naturalmente, la chitarra come strumento principale. L'album è disponibile su CDBaby, Reverbnation e Google Play