Nicola Conte

Italian DJ and nu jazz musician

Born: 1964
Bari
Country: Italy
Record labels: Blue Note, Far Out Recordings, Schema

Biography

Nicola Conte is a jazz musician who plays guitar and sampling. Nicola Conte was born in 1964 in Bari. The music is usually filed under jazz and bossa nova. Record labels: Blue Note, Far Out Recordings and Schema.

Nicola Conte (born 1962, Bari, Italy) is an Italian DJ, producer, guitarist, arranger and bandleader, known initially for introducing an innovative style of acid jazz that incorporates bossa nova themes, melodies drawn from Italian film scores of the 1960s, easy listening themes, and traditional Indian music. His Latin jazz focus is evident on his albums Other Directions (2004, Blue Note & Schema) and Rituals (2008, Schema), and remixes he has done for contemporaries across genres. Conte, a classically trained musician, is a part of what was known as The Fez Collective, based in the Apulian city of Bari, and the Idizioni-Ishtar/Schema Records, a record label known for promoting a distinctly Italian approach to acid jazz as well as jazz music as a whole. Conte's first album was Jet Sounds (2000). The single "Bossa Per Due" gained international recognition and was an underground hit.

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