at the 2010 the improvisor festival represents the sense of community that brings
veteran collaborators back together after 30 years.
Centazzo,
improvising
drummer/percussionist,
then the
official USA
representative
of Ufip
cymbals in
1978,
discovered
Alabama’s
pioneering
Transmuseq
artists,
Davey
Williams &
LaDonna
Smith,
invited &
hosted them
on their
first tour
to Europe,
which in
effect was
instrumental
in launching
their
international
musical
success.
In an
artistic
career that
spans
over thirty
years,
Andrea
Centazzo
has given
more than
1000
concerts...
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A
raconteur of the highest order,
there are few figures in
contemporary music who have had
as unique an impact and
influence on "outsider" music in
the South (and beyond) than Col.
Bruce Hampton. With a career
that spans over four decades, he
has been an inimitable
figurehead to legions of radical
Southern aesthetes who dared to
subvert conventional assumptions
about what music is and can be.
As lead singer of legendary
avant-rock group the Hampton
Grease Band in the late-1960's
and early-70's, the Col. began
his artistic life as an
anomaly-among-anomalies in the
era of psychedelic music.
Playing to the same audiences as
the Allman Brothers, the
Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and
the original Fleetwood Mac, the
Hampton Grease Band created some
of the most challenging,
controversial, and
groundbreaking sonic excursions
to ever fall under the banner of
rock n' roll. Peers to the likes
of Frank Zappa and Captain
Beefheart,
