GRETA PANETTIERI

From New York to Italy, from the major Italian Festivals and Clubs to television. She is one of the most fascinating voices on the Italian and international scene: Greta Panettieri, who grew up artistically in New York, where she released her debut album for Decca/Universal, is a musician, singer, radio host, composer and author, writer and jazz singing teacher.


In recent years, in addition to having supported Toquinho as lead vocalist in four Italian tours, she has carried out incessant live work with her projects, touching the main Italian jazz festivals and arriving in China, Russia and Spain with highly successful tours. In 2022 Greta published for Mimesis “La voce nel pop e nel jazz” a book later adopted in the university course at IULM and Bicocca in Milan.


Jazz singing teacher at several conservatories, she has participated in several conferences and held masterclasses on jazz vocals in recent years. For several years she has been a radio host together with Fiorenza Gherardi of the Gpills program “Anche Le Formiche Pizzicano..”


His latest album will be released by GBM in 2024, entitled “Fly Me To Sinatra”, preceded by the single “My Way”, previewed on Rai News24, which features accordionist Vince Abbracciante and Japanese violinist Nanaco Tarui. The album will also be released as an attachment to the prestigious magazine MUSICA JAZZ. [...]


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    In 2016 and 2018, the Jazzit Awards consecrated her as one of the ten best Italian jazz singers. In the same year she participated in more than twenty episodes as a regular guest of the program "L'aria che tira" (La7) where she performed with various jazz musicians from the Italian and international scene including Max Ionata, David Pietro, Piji, Ameen Saleem, Francesco Puglisi, Domenico Sanna, Andrea Sammartino, Marcello Allulli, Francesco Diodati, Daniele Mencarelli and many others. Among the various television programs in which Greta participated, we point out "Splendor" on Iris TV in 2017 where, in addition to performing some songs live accompanied by Andrea Sammartino on the piano, Jacopo Ferrazza on the double bass and Valerio Vantaggio on the drums, she talks about herself in a beautiful interview by Mario Sesti. But it was between 2014 and 2015 that Greta won over the press and the public by performing at the major Italian clubs and theaters with her “Viaggio in Jazz” through the songs from the soul jazz album “Under Control” and her highly acclaimed “Non Gioco Più” (Italian '60 in Jazz), an album that reinterprets the hits performed by the great Mina with a completely new and original style, also re-proposing the virtuoso song “Brava” thanks to the excellent vocal skills of Greta who duets with the trumpeter Fabrizio Bosso. An album much loved by the radio, “Non Gioco Più” immediately won over the Italian public, selling out several theaters and clubs, not only in Italy but also in the States, where Greta presented the album on important stages including the Rockwood Music Hall in New York. “Non Gioco Più” and “Shattered-Sgretolata” are also distributed in Japan by the labels Albore Jazz and Tower Records. “Under Control” is instead an autobiographical album released in 2013 that tells the story of the transition from the management of a major like Universal, with which Greta published her debut album 'The Edge of Everything' in 2010, to a more creative and independent dimension, where she can finally find the right amount of freedom to create her own music in an authentic way. Among the illustrious collaborations on the album, the invaluable one of Larry Williams, famous producer and arranger for Al Jarreau, Michael Jackson (“Thriller”, “Off the Wall” and “Bad”) and Quincy Jones.

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“I’ve always called myself a jazz singer… but not really. I improvise, but I don’t scat. I like soul and R&B but I don’t do melismas. I like melody but I’m not a pop singer. So who am I? I am what I play. I sing what I like, how I like. I let my voice be free without trying to fit it into a style. I “study” styles but they “crumble” on me.”

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Two artists of extraordinary class, a voice that fascinates, and the incredible fusion of piano and guitar that creates unique rhythms and harmonies: the concert of Greta Panettieri and Andrea Sammartino is a musical journey that crosses different worlds and styles, apparently distant, but perfectly intertwined.


This event marks the culmination of a thirty-year career full of successes and emotions, an unmissable opportunity to experience the creativity and power of music.


Get Closer, a project that also reflects union in life, is an intimate experience in which every note becomes a springboard for a poetic and profound flight. The dialogue between the piano and the guitar, which enrich and respond to each other, accompanies Greta's extraordinary voice, which expresses itself in its purest and most enveloping form. The setlist alternates great pop classics with original compositions, creating a unique playlist of sounds and nuances, which strip the songs of every artifice, revealing their most authentic essence.

Each song opens a world to explore, where jazz, soul, blues blend elegantly with the song form, giving life to a multifaceted and profound sound experience. Piano, voice, guitar and a promise: to get closer to the heart of music.


An invitation to immerse yourself in a sophisticated and enveloping sound world, where every chord resonates with the heartbeat, every melody becomes a whisper and every word becomes an emotion. The duo, with its ability to create a deep and intimate connection, gives the audience a musical embrace that touches the soul and makes every moment unforgettable.

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GRETA PANETTIERI | VOICE & GUITAR

ANDREA SAMMARTINO | PIANO

Get Closer: Story, Voice, Sound..


Two artists of extraordinary class, a voice that fascinates, and the incredible fusion of piano and guitar that creates unique rhythms and harmonies: the concert of Greta Panettieri and Andrea Sammartino is a musical journey that crosses different worlds and styles, apparently distant, but perfectly intertwined.


This event marks the culmination of a thirty-year career full of successes and emotions, an unmissable opportunity to experience the creativity and power of music.


Get Closer, a project that also reflects union in life, is an intimate experience in which every note becomes a springboard for a poetic and profound flight. The dialogue between the piano and the guitar, which enrich and respond to each other, accompanies Greta's extraordinary voice, which expresses itself in its purest and most enveloping form. The setlist alternates great pop classics with original compositions, creating a unique playlist of sounds and nuances, which strip the songs of every artifice, revealing their most authentic essence.

Each song opens a world to explore, where jazz, soul, blues blend elegantly with the song form, giving life to a multifaceted and profound sound experience. Piano, voice, guitar and a promise: to get closer to the heart of music.


An invitation to immerse yourself in a sophisticated and enveloping sound world, where every chord resonates with the heartbeat, every melody becomes a whisper and every word becomes an emotion. The duo, with its ability to create a deep and intimate connection, gives the audience a musical embrace that touches the soul and makes every moment unforgettable.

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FLY ME TO SINATRA
GRETA PANETTIERI | VOICE AND GUITAR
ANDREA SAMMARTINO | PIANO AND KEYBOARDS
GIUSEPPE BASSI | DOUBLE BASS
MIMMO CAMPANALE | DRUMS

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VINCE HUGGER | ACCORDION

Unlike Sinatra, Greta indulges in complex improvisations, sometimes playful, as in the opening track Young at Heart in duo with double bass player Giuseppe Bassi, other times more complex and sophisticated, as in Jobim's piece with a free solo that looks to Bach. However, like Sinatra, Greta enters deeply into the textual narration, identifying with the subject. More closely linked to the sounds of traditional jazz are the songs Fly Me to the Moon, re-proposed in the original version in 3/4, very fresh and swinging, embellished by solo moments of voice, piano and double bass; Cole Porter's masterpiece Night and Day with an original and revitalized rhythm in 5/4 proposed by Giuseppe Bassi, a poignant Strangers in the Night that, thanks to an unexpected inversion of tonality from major to minor, and the presence of the accordion and violin, dresses itself in a sumptuous and dramatic dress. A classic, yet bold and innovative project, with a touch of lightness in perfect Sinatra spirit.


Around Greta Panettieri, there is an ensemble that enhances her work of reinterpreting Sinatra's songs: Andrea Sammartino, artistic and life partner, who once again took care of the production and the sparkling and refined arrangements from A to Z, the solid creativity of the double bass player Giuseppe Bassi who also contributes to the Live with arrangement ideas, from the multifaceted drummer Mimmo Campanale, who with Bassi forms one of the most requested rhythm sections in Italy and abroad.


The project can be requested with the participation of accordionist Vince Abbracciante who with his creativity contributes to giving depth and an intense emotional shock to songs such as It Was a Very Good Year and Strangers in the Night,

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GRETA PANETTIERI | VOICE AND GUITAR
ANDREA SAMMARTINO | PIANO AND KEYBOARDS
DANIELE MENCARELLI | BASS
ALESSANDRO PATERNESI | DRUMS

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FULVIO SIGURTÀ | TRUMPET AND ELECTRONICS
MAX IONATA | TENOR SAX

Greta says: “The songs we decided to reinterpret are great successes that belong to our past: for us they have a strong evocative power and from the first notes they are able to take us back in time, as in a quantum leap, making us experience the same emotions of those years.” With a band of great international musicians, with whom over the years she has built artistic affinity, affection and friendship that reverberate in the refinement of the songs. In addition to the stable presence of Andrea Sammartino, we find Daniele Mencarelli, one of the most interesting and complete bass players in the Italian scene; on the drums Alessandro Paternesi, another great artist, among the best in European jazz. A formation that makes this Live a high-quality show that best enhances Greta's voice and her music.


The participation of trumpeter Fulvio Sigurtà or tenor saxophonist Max Tonata can be requested for the project, according to request and availability.


The harmony between stage and audience creates a show that is fast-paced but at the same time soft and harmonious. Panettieri's concerts arouse more and more enthusiasm among the audience, who are involved and accompanied in a crescendo of emotions.

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FLY ME TO SINATRA
GRETA PANETTIERI | VOICE AND GUITAR
ANDREA SAMMARTINO | PIANO AND KEYBOARDS
GIUSEPPE BASSI | DOUBLE BASS
MIMMO CAMPANALE | DRUMS

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NANACO TARUI | VIOLIN
VINCE HUGGER | ACCORDION

Exactly ten years after the album Non gioco più, Greta Panettieri has returned to try her hand at a new and important reworking. In this album Greta Panettieri reinterprets in an introspective and at the same time luminous way pearls such as Strangers in the Night, Fly Me to the Moon and My Way, but also more “dark” and extremely fascinating songs, such as the masterpiece by Tom Jobim and Chico Buarque The Song of the Sabiá - where a dense vocal arrangement in Bachian style serves as the basis for a Pindaric free solo, the iconic In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning by David Mann and Bob Hilliard and the fascinating One for My Baby by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. Characteristic of the new arrangements proposed by Greta Panettieri and Andrea Sammartino, is the search for contemporaneity within an album with more classic colors and sounds, with a personal interpretation.

INTO MY GARDEN

Into my garden, released on January 6, 2023 and preceded by the fascinating video clip of the song “No more” presented in video premiere by Repubblica TV, is the album of maturity, carefully composed, arranged and created during three long and intense years of work.



Seven original songs plus a cover of Bob Dylan's I believe in you, with music and lyrics by Greta and her faithful producer Andrea Sammartino, who present themselves to the world as a tool to untie the knots of a contrasting world that is difficult to interpret in a univocal and definitive way.

WITH LOVE

A real playlist of memories “With Love”, the new album by Greta Panettieri. From Vasco Rossi to Phil Collins, from Lucio Dalla to Supertramp, from Pino Daniele to Stelvio Cipriani, the new album immediately entered the programming of over 20 Italian radios as the best “Jazz Album” of the week.


The album's tracklist includes: “Vivere” (Vasco Rossi), “Goodbye Stranger” (Supertramp), “Attimo per attimo” (Antonio Amurri), “Easy” (Lionel Richie), “Anonimo Veneziano” (Stelvio Cipriani), “Se io fossi un angelo” (Lucio Dalla), “Never Can Say Goodbye” (Clifton Davis), “La voce del silenzio” (Mogol/Limiti), “Please Don't Go” (Harry Wayne KC Casey/ Richard Finch), “Against all odds” (Phil Collins), “Anima” (Pino Daniele).

SHATTERED/SGRETOLATA

Released in October 2016, Greta Panettieri's album "Shattered - Sgretolata" is the fifth in the production of the multifaceted singer and composer, recorded between Rome and New York. This work, composed almost entirely of original songs, is a 360° portrait of her multifaceted personality and her virtuoso artistic path, which has always gone beyond the definition of genre and style.


Special guests on the album: Claudio “Greg” Gregori, great vocal protagonist and author of the lyrics of “Oppure no”, from New York the drummer Mauricio Zottarelli and the bassist Itaiguara Brandao, one of the leading jazz guitarists Francesco Diodati and three pillars of the Italian jazz saxophone Max Ionata, Alfonso Deidda and Cristiano Arcelli.

I DON'T PLAY ANYMORE

Non Gioco Più is an album in which the suggestions of two almost parallel worlds live: that of jazz, with its escapes forward and improvisations associated with nocturnal and smoky atmospheres and the Italian singer-songwriter songs of the Sixties and Seventies, which also drew on overseas sounds and which take us back to a time when television entertainment proposed, without competitors, musical genres and social models.

Some of those songs that have remained imprinted in the hearts and memories of millions of Italians, written by composers including Ennio Morricone, Bruno Canfora and Gianni Ferrio, for great voices like Mina, are present in this work that Greta Panettieri has created with her great friends and collaborators such as: Andrea Sammartino, Armando Sciommeri, Giuseppe Bassi and with three exceptional guests: Alfonso Deidda, Gaetano Partipilo and Fabrizio Bosso.

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