After some weeks without posting I just want to post some pictures I had from my Aikido practice. These pictures were made by my mother, father and girl, during the practice I did before my brown belt exams. I really love and enjoy aikido! In the past two months I had not the possibility to go to the dojo 'cause my photographic work for the TriesteLovesJazz festival, but this evening I will restart the new season and I'm very excited for it! :)

Brazilian All Stars play Jobim

TriesteLovesJazz 2009

Trieste, July 19, 2009

I had the possibilty to photograph another lovely concert with great musicians during the TriesteLovesJazz 2009. I met the famuos stars Duduka DaFonseca, Eddie Gomez, Toninho Horta.. and also Dick Oatts, Helio Alves and Maucha Adnet. The location, as usual, was situated on the biggest and beautiful square in Trieste, Piazza dell'Unita' d'Italia. During the afternoon I spoke some words with them, taking some pictures during the backstage. I arrived on the stage some moments before the sunset and I did some shots of the stage and the staff working on the stage lights. With the beautiful colours of the orange and blue dusk the show started givin' us a very nice concert!

Brazilian All Stars play Jobim
Duduka DaFonseca, drums;
Eddie Gomez, bass;
Dick Oatts, sax;
Toninho Horta, guitar, vocal;
Maucha Adnet, vocal;
Helio Alves, piano

ph Massimo Goina ©2009 Goina.com

more pictures here and here.

Brenda Rattray Jazz Gospel Band

TriesteLovesJazz 2009

Trieste, July 20, 2009

Brenda Rattray Jazz Gospel Band

feat. Trieste Gospel 2009 Choir

Brenda Rattray: vocals

Chris Wilson: keyboards

Dominic Ashworth: guitars

Delmar Edwards: bass

Winston Clifford: drums

more on my website or here.

Carlos Santana. Supernatural Tour 2009.

Yesterday evening I was to shoot for the Carlos Santana's Tour 2009. Supernatural! I love to shoot for the big concert, it's very different by the small ones even if shooting for the smallest is lovely because you can have free access to all areas. For the biggest organizations you have restrictions to areas and you need to deal with the staff for having someting more.

Anyway! It was a gorgeous concert and great musicians too!

The room for the photographers under the stage was a few little but we all had the possibility to do our work.

Carlos Santana Supernatural Tour
Carlos Santana: guitar,
Dennis Chambers: drums,
Chester Thompson: keyboards,
Raul Rekov: congas,
Andy Vargas: vocals,
Tony Lindsay: vocals,
Karl Perazzo: percussions,
Benny Rietveld: bass,
Jeff Cressman: trombone,
Bill Ortiz: trumpet,
Tommy Athony: guitars/vocals,
Jeff Cressman: trombone











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Brian Auger's Oblivion Express

Tomorrow I will meet again Brian Auger and his band. I'm very happy for that, after I photographed them last year during the TriestLovesJazz Festival. This year I will go to meet them near Padova, in the Veneto Region; they are touring Europe since august.
The band is formed by Brian Auger (the Godfather of acid jazz!), his sons Karma and Savannah Auger, and the revolving bass player Andreas Geck. Here some of the pictures I did to them last year in Trieste:














more pictures about this event: MySpace, MyWebsite

Venice: just a trip

The first days of june we went to visit Venice, for just a little trip. In the days before the trip we had a lot of bad days with rain and storms: not usual for the june's period in Italy. Anyway we went to visit to my girl' sister and we stayed with them for a day, relaxin', drinkin', eating lovely dishes cooked with supremacy by my brother in law. During the afternoon of the sunday we decided to go for the trip to Venice, just because the weather was turning to a lovely sunny, even if the storms were all around the city of Venice.

We used the train to reach the center of Venice, after that three hours by feet to see the famous venetian city. As usual I used my camera, without thinking the pictures would be so interesting for that day.. we were there for some hours and I had not the time to walk for takin pictures. But the weather gave me the possibility to take some really interesting moments, expecially in the famous San Marco's Square, when the sea started to grow up. These are some of the shots I did that day, I hope you will enjoy them as I did while I was photographing.

more pictures about this event: MySpace, MyWebsite

Festival di Musica per Bambini

Festival di Musica per Bambini

"La Musica dello Gnomo Mirtillo"

di Vincenzo Stera

Ornella Serafini (voce), Gabriele Centis (batteria), Daniele Dibiaggio (piano), Vincenzo Stera (fiati)

E' uno spettacolo per bambini dai 2 ai 6 anni e cita la storia dello Gnomo Mirtillo alla ricerca della sua nuova casa passeggiando durante la notte ascoltando i suoni del bosco. Alla fine dello spettacolo i bambini portano in dono foglie e ghiande nella dimora dello gnomo.

Music Festival for Children

"The music of Dwarf Blueberry"

A show for kids from 2 to 6 years old. The history of Dwarf Blueberry searching for his new home, walking during the night through the forest listening to its sounds. At the end of the show children give a gift of leaves and acorns under his tree-home.

More photographs of the show HERE

Paul Gilbert Guitar Clinic

Paul Gilbert Guitar Clinic @ Casa della Musica, Trieste

Paul Gilbert: guitar, voice

Mauro Berardi: drums

Alessandro Leonzini: bass

More pictures on my MySpace album.

Just the time to have a picture with Marco, a friend who was playing with me some years ago!

Buster Williams "Something More" Quartet

Yesterday I met the biggest of the jazz music Buster Williams, Lenny White, Bennie Maupin and Georg Cooligan. As I said to Mr Williams, the quartet played "surfing the groove", with a fantastic selection of jazz music played with supremacy. The fact is that they play speacking a language between them, and they tell to eachother things that we can hear, but we can't enjoy as the do. I don't know if you understan what I mean.
Yesterday I did the photographs and today the selections of the best shots. For some of them I did some digital retouches just to take off some guys in the back of the piano player.
I do not want to write more on this concert, just 'cause I'm at the end of the day and of the week, and I want only to get my poor eyes!

Buster Williams "Something More" Quartet (website)
Buster Williams: bass
Lenny White: drums
Bennie Maupin: sax
George Colligan: piano

More pictures on my MySpace page.

Carl Verheyen Trio

As usual in the last months I'm always busy for my work and my engagements. But really I want to mantain this blog alive and I will do everything for doing it!

Carl Verheyen Trio.

Carl Verheyen: guitar and voice

Dave Marotta: bass

Walfredo Reyes Jr.: drums

Carl Verheyen was one of the guitarists of the Supertramp, and he signed the soundtrack of "The Crow" movie, Dave Marotta played with Manhattan Transfer, Phil Collins, Burt Bacharach and Walfredo Reyes with Santana, Steve Winwood, Jackson Brown.

I met them two weeks ago in the Auditorium of Casa della Musica in Trieste. They are actually touring Europe presenting the new album of Carl Verheyen Band. All of them are very interesting persons. The one who hit me more than the others is Mister Walfredo Reyes Jr., the BIG Walfredo. Obviously this is 'cause I'm a drummer and I have a certain feeling when I'm in contact with musicians like him.

The Auditorium where they played is a little room, but here the musicians can play for the true fans, in a familiar atmosphere. And they did!

I met them in the backstage before the concert, when they were relaxing after a dinner into a restaurant of traditional Napolitan food. I asked myself why give them a traditional dish from Naples when in the North East of Italy we have more tasteful dishes than them, but maybe I'm too much linked to my roots than others or maybe this was a request of the musicians. But I'm not here to speack about the food, so anyway, I'll go for the Trio.

In the backstage they were very kind with me and I had some time to speack with them about music and photography.

Tasty concert between some intimate friends in the Auditorium of the Casa della Musica of Trieste. Carl led the entire concert commenting on their songs as if he was spending a quiet evening with friends. He was occasionally supported by the jokes and the gags of the big Walfredo Reyes and by the rhytmic machine Dave Marotta. During the evening every musician had the opportunity to demonstrate its total musical abilities, which range in all directions. At the end of the concert the group went with a funny encore with Walfredo at the voice and percussions, while Carl and Dave were supporting him with their personal instruments; really a cool encore for the enjoyed audience!

Here some of the pictures I did, more on my MySpace page.