Jazz Oddity is a reworking project of some pieces of David Robert Jones, best known as David Bowie, in a jazz/rock key, released in March 2011 for the label “La Frontiera” (CNI) !!- David Bowie’s Music holds a very special place in my heart since I was very young, and this old love brought me to conceive a radical contamination between Rock and Jazz, a borderland upon which all my souls join together.

A real “Jazz Oddity” - ! Federica Zammarchi ! - Jazz players, rock players... Thinking musicwise leads to creating divisions. We divide, thus classifying styles, artists, trends, music stores departments (or their leftovers). But reality is simpler. Nowadays, we live a music "pangea":  a total music that is listened to, that is played, deconstrucetd and re-built, being  the synthesis of all that experienced by each musician actually living this music. Federica Zammarchi perfectly represents such reality, giving life to her own original reinterpretation of the awesome Bowie - someone we all have got under our skins, somehow. It's an incredible blend of the strongest elements of the worlds of Jazz and Rock. As side-musicians we found ourselves at game - behind any false purisms - with arrangements, rhythmic inventions, piano textures, bass and guitar lines designed by Federica with such musicality and talent, as if "Loving the Alien" - as Bowie would say - loving all that different. ! Marco Siniscalco !“Jazz Oddity”, consists in eleven re-arrangements of songs of David Bowie. Its concept came up a few years ago, when she needed to mix together her two main musical loves, namely jazz and 70’s rock, both so important during her forming years. It was recorded with an Italian all-star band and it showcases a uniquely innovative sound, slightly influenced by european bands like the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, coining a new genre definition called "PowerJazz".

Federica Zammarchi/Vocals & Arrangement Antonio Jasevoli/Guitar Enrico Zanisi/Piano Marco Siniscalco/Bass Emanuele Smimmo/Drums

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Federica Zammarchi (Major Tom)

Vocals & ArrangementMarco Siniscalco

(The Ground Control) Bass & Supervision

Enrico Zanisi (The Spider From Mars)

Piano

Emanuele Smimmo (The Spaceship)

Drums

All The Madmen (Live Lineup)

A great studio band A great live band!

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One of more active bass players in Italy. He co-founded the Aires Tango ensamble and he collaborated with Paul McCandless, Kenny Wheeler, Antonello Salis, Paolo Fresu, Enrico Rava, Hilton Ruiz, Randy Brecker and many others. As sideman he worked wirh some of the more representative artists of the pop scene (Alex Baroni, Carmen Consoli, Claudio Baglioni, Nada). He teaches bass & ensemble music at the Saint Louis College of Music of Rome and at the public academies of Frosinone & L’ Aquila

A young piano prodigy, he is considered a promise of the italian jazz. He’s first album “Quasi Troppo Serio” was recorded with Ettore Fioravanti e Pietro Ciancaglini, then two albums more as a leader for the prestigious label “CAM jazz”, He collaborate with some of the most important names of our jazz scene and he worked with Sheila Jordan, David Liebman, Andy Sheppard, Sarah Jane Morris, Stefano Di Battista, Javier Girotto, Giovanni Tommaso, Francesco Cafiso, Ares Tavolazzi, Fabrizio Bosso, Anthony Pinciotti, Roberta Gambarini, Massimo Nunzi, Roberto Gatto, Fabrizio Sferra, Paolo Fresu, Dario Deidda, Gabriele Mirabassi and many more..

Eclectic drummer, he’s active in the jazz scene with Maurizio Giammarco, Fabrizio Bosso, Javier Girotto, Ares Tavolazzi, Giovanni Amato, Daniele Tittarelli, Dario Deidda, Daniele Bonaviri, Eddy Palermo, PMJO (Parco della musica Jazz Orchestra), Aires Tango, Louis Bacalov and in the pop scene he recorded and played with Tony Esposito, Teresa De Sio, Bungaro Marco Rinalduzzi, Aidan Zummit. He co-founded the Wasabi Trio with Lorenzo Feliciati and Alessandro Gwis, having as guest the Vietnamese trumpet player Cuong Vu.

Federica Zammarchi is a musician with an eclectic background. Singer, composer and arranger, in 2000 she took a degree in Philosophy at the University of Studies of Siena, then she totally dedicated to music. She released 3 albums under her own name, from the jazz standards and original compositions (Fires ‘n Pyres-2009), to the jazzy-oriented versions of some legends of the rock history as David Bowie (Jazz Oddity - 2011) and Jimi Hendrix (The Jazz Cries Jimi - 2012), working with some of the most influent jazz musicians of the italian (and international as well) scene. Co-founder with Davide Alivernini of the new, innovative project, named ANTICHORDS, a duo-project merging electronica, jazz, pop, classical, experimental, sound design in a unique new sound that they like to call "cross-electro”, in 2013 she also started a fascinating collaboration with the historical ethno/world group AGRICANTUS, for the new album “Turnari”, taking part at the Primo Maggio concert (1st may 2014) in Rome, Piazza San Giovanni, one of the most important music events in Italy, worldwide broadcasted by RAI TV. Music theory, arranging and composing professor, she teaches jazz singing and choir at the Saint Louis College of Music of Rome.