Episode 11 - Giulio Carmassi

Hello everyone,

This is Mirko Guerrini, and I welcome you to the Jazz Transcription Clinic, a monthly interviews podcast where we talk with accomplished jazz doctors about their lives, careers and their personal transcription secrets. 

On this episode of the Jazz Transcription Clinic Podcast Mirko Guerrini interviews the guest jazz doctor: Giulio Carmassi.

Listen to Giulio Carmassi's answers to the questions below: 
Why do you transcribe? 18:36
What is your transcribing methodology? 28:05
How you got the gig with Pat Metheny? 43:30

Giulio Carmassi is a performer, composer, arranger and producer.
Carmassi recorded 2 albums and toured 42 countries with the Pat Metheny Unity Group, with Antonio Sanchez, Chris Potter and Ben Williams, starting with the 2014 album "Kin", on piano, vocals, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, flute, saxophone, vibraphone, french horn and cello.

The album debuted #1 in the jazz charts, and the group brought home both the "best album" and "best band" nods from DownBeat magazine. He's also the pianist, singer and trumpeter on Metheny's "The Unity Sessions" (2016).

He’s recorded and toured with the Will Lee's Family band, alongside Steve Gadd and Chuck Loeb, alternating tenor saxophone, trumpet, hammond organ, guitar, percussion and vocals on stage.

He was also in NY the keyboard player of the Lew Soloff's band, alongside Mark Egan, Keith Carlock, Will Lee, Oz Noy, Lou Marini and many others.   

With his writing partner Bryan Scary, he founded the film music production team Hummingbirds.  Their latest score premiered at Sundance 2020, for the movie "Black Bear" with Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott and Sarah Gadon. They are currently scoring “Please Baby Please”, starring Andrea Riseborough, Harry Melling and Demi Moore. As a team, they’ve scored and sound designed dozens of national commercials for Adidas, Uber, Ford, Volvo, Toyota, AARP, Royal Caribbean, Visa, Coca Cola and Unicef, and many others. Their music is also in several Netflix, NBC and CNN shows. 

Carmassi's YouTube channel has collected nearly 2 million views.In his videos, Carmassi plays, records, films end edits video songs of all kinds, from symphonic rock extravaganzas, to broadway songs, to fusion jazz music and hard rock.  

Born and raised in Italy, after living in both Paris and New York, Giulio Carmassi is now based in Los Angeles. 

You can check Giulio Carmassi here:
https://www.giuliocarmassi.com/

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