Biography
Davide Pannozzo was born in Formia on 7 December 1983. Raised to the rhythm of Jimi Hendrix and baby bottles, thanks to his parents' shared passion for the blues, he began studying classical guitar at the age of just six, showing his natural inclination for music. At the age of 14 he took his first exams at the conservatory but despite his classical studies, the devil's music continued to attract the young guitarist who soon became close to his demons.
Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters, but also Scott Henderson, Mike Stern, Cannonball Adderley and Miles Davis: a new sonic versatility that presents a tribute to the old blues of the past with deep black roots and a look to the new musical world that the millennium, which has just begun, is proposing.
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His skill has been recognized by great people, such as Magic Slim and Big Time Sarah, Scott Henderson, and by all lovers of good music, which underline not only his technical ability, the result of study and dedication to music, but also his genius, the naturalness of the unawareness of surprising and enthusing.
Great festival event, therefore, in which the most precocious talent of Italian blues participates: June 2000 opens the Magic Slim concert ("Davide Pannozzo is one of the best blues guitarists of the new generation. I think he's great!" - Ceccano, July 2003 ), the last great bluesman of Chicago on the occasion of the 14th edition of the 'Liri Blues Festival', concluding the concert together with the American band with great satisfaction on the part of the musicians themselves.
Since February 2001 he has been leading the rock-blues band Almost Blue's Band (Ranieri De Luca on drums, Mario Mazzenga on bass, Matteo Addabbo on Hammond organ, Cris Pacini on sax), with whom an album 'Down From the Roots' in 2003 and has just recorded the second one produced by the record label of Milano VIDEORADIO (formerly producers of De Piscopo, Braido, Faso) entitled "Soul & Notes".
The new trio BESIDE Project is recently formed together with Daniele Chiantese on drums and Mario Mazzenga on bass, with which they tackle a repertoire of electric jazz, extremely open to sound and harmonic contaminations.
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