{"id":68,"date":"2016-01-10T21:15:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tejo.it\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2024-11-25T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:33:32","slug":"chi-siamo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tejo.it\/en\/chi-siamo\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trieste Early Jazz Orchestra \u2013 TEJO<\/strong> is an orchestral ensemble of some of the top jazz players from Trieste and surrounding areas who are known also on the international jazz scene. It consists of: violin \u2013 Nicola Mansutti, 2 alto sax \u2013 Lorenzo Marcolina and Elias Faccio, tenor sax \u2013 Nevio Zaninotto, 2 trumpets \u2013 Andrej Strekelj and Roberto Santagati , trombone \u2013 Matija Mlakar, tuba \u2013 Daniele Spano, guitar and banjo \u2013 Tiziano Bole, piano \u2013 Giulio Scaramella and drums \u2013 Pietro Sponton.<\/strong>*<\/p>\n

The orchestra leader is Tom Hmeljak<\/strong>, who, 10 years after its inception, has replaced the founder Livio Laurenti<\/strong>, who also founded and leads the Joplin Ragtime Orchestra<\/a><\/strong>. With TEJO he has gone further to explore the decade 1924 – 1934 – when ragtime was forgotten and jazz became more and more popular in its early larger orchestrations – with pieces by D. Ellington,  F. Henderson, G. Gershwin ,<\/strong> etc. In other words, a trip through the “Roaring Twenties” with wild syncopated rhythms that ignite the atmosphere as used to happen at New York’s “Cotton Club” and with the very same sound too! Internationally there is only a handful of similar ensembles that have adopted this philological approach. It is worth mentioning that all arrangements were conceived for a kind of proto-big band .We still find the violin but not yet the string bass. The saxophone section is composed of 3 instrumentalists as is the brass section (2 trumpets and 1 trombone) . After the second half of the 30’s things had changed radically to arrive at the big band as we know it today with a total of 17-19 instruments,of which 5 saxophones , 4\/5 trumpets, 4\/5 trombones , no violin and the string bass to replace the tuba. Yet, in spite of its only 11 instruments , one of which the violin, TEJO’s sound impact is considerable both in the melodic and in the more rhythmic pieces, this due to the beauty of the original arrangements<\/strong>. As it was often the case at the time that many pieces were written for Broadway musicals, TEJO also has its own vintage crooner: Paolo Venier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Young accomplished Tip Tap<\/strong> dancers participate in the TEJO shows, as well as the female vocal trio Anakrousis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The pieces are introduced by Livio Laurenti<\/strong> in a logical thread enabling the audience to immerse in the times and better savour some gems of early jazz.With its gaiety and ease of listening, the musical genre will appeal to everyone.<\/p>\n

Consistently with its philological approach, TEJO employs little or no amplification at indoor concerts.<\/p>\n

*The following musicians have cooperated: Antonio Kozina and Sebastiano Frattini (violin), Matic Mikola, Giuliano Tull, Giovanni Cigui, Bostjan Simon and Marcello Sfetez (alto sax), Piero Purich (tenor sax), Stefano Muscovi, Flavio Davanzo (trumpet), Maurizio Cepparo, Alessandro Maras, Miron Hauser and Max Ravanello(trombone), Francesco De Luisa (piano), Marco Steff\u00e8 and Fulvio Vardabasso (guitar), Franco Feruglio (bass), Paolo Muscovi and Tom Hmeljak (drums), Marko Rupel (tuba), Petar Mato\u0161evi\u0107 (orchestra leader).<\/p>\n

The following artists have also cooperated:
– the singer Ana Pilat
– the vocal trio Les Babettes
– the dancers Giovanni Panasiti e Samantha Benedetti
– the Tip Tap dancers of the TocToc school of Trieste
– the Lindy Hop dancers \u0160pela Premel\u010d, Jure Rus, Eva Po\u010divav\u0161ek Janhar, Metod Javornik
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