Alex Gariazzo, biellese, dal 1995 è cantante e chitarrista della TREVES BLUES BAND, storico gruppo italiano con il quale ha all’attivo 8 cd e centinaia di concerti in Italia e all’estero, oltre a svariate partecipazioni radiofoniche e televisive e l’apertura di concerti di artisti come Bruce Springsteen, Counting Crows, Deep Purple, ZZ Top, John Mayall, Charlie Musselwhite, John Hammond e molti altri.
Si dedica in qualità di compositore alla realizzazione di colonne sonore, jingles pubblicitari, basi musicali, sonorizzazioni per installazioni artistiche, per il web e per il teatro.
Produttore artistico e insegnante di chitarra acustica ed elettrica collabora con le scuola di musica “Sonoria” di Cossato (BI), “House of Rock” di Torino e “Six Sound” di Mariano Comense (CO), suona anche mandolino, ukulele, dobro, lap steel, basso e sitar.
Tiene seminari sul Blues e sul rapporto tra blues e popular music da solo o in compagnia di Fabio Treves. E’ coautore del libro “I 100 dischi ideali per capire il blues” (Ed. Riuniti, 2001).
L’edizione 2015 del Dizionario del Pop Rock di Zanichelli lo cita tra i migliori chitarristi blues italiani nella scheda dedicata alla Treves Blues Band.
Vanta collaborazioni dal vivo e in studio con artisti italiani e internazionali, tra cui Joe Bonamassa, Warren Haynes, Eugenio Finardi, Mauro Pagani, Lucio Fabbri, Saturnino, Stef Burns, Elio e le storie Tese, Jake Clemons, Michael McDermott, Jono Manson, Bocephus King, Scarlet Rivera, Chris Jagger, Linda Gail Lewis, John Popper, Roy Rogers, Dennis Greaves (Nine Below Zero), Irama, Alex Britti e molti altri.
English version:
Born in Italy in 1972. He began to play guitar in early 80s after studying music theory, harmony and classical guitar.In the early 90s he attended master classes with Bill Frisell, Carl Verheyen, Scott Henderson and italian country virtuoso Beppe Gambetta.From 1995 he works as guitarist and singer with Treves Blues Band, the most important italian blues band lead by Fabio Treves (great harp player, ‘the father of Italian blues scene’ who worked with Frank Zappa, Mike Bloomfield amongs the others), with whom he has recorded 6 cds, played top clubs and festivals, appeared on several radio and Tv programs (local and nationwide broadcasting), worked with several American and British blues players touring Italy in session with Warren Haynes, Joe Bonamassa, Roy Rogers, Linda Gail Lewis, John Popper and many others.He is currently playing with Treves Blues Band (opening for Bruce Springsteen, Deep Purple, ZZ TOP, John Mayall, Charlie Musselwhite, John Hammond, Blues Brothers Band, Nine Below Zero, Canned Heat and others), as a soloist ( collaborations with many Italian pop top artits), he sings and plays in several tv jingles (in particular with Wolkswagen brand for worldwide productions) he starts a recent collaboration with London producer Tony Clark (sound engineer with The Beatles, Sir Paul Mccartney, Stevie Wonder, Cliff Richard, Sky and many others).He has been writing for Editori Riuniti ‘The best 100 blues albums of all times’, producing and playing (live and on CD) with some of the most exciting bands and soloists in his area and he also teaching and doing blues workshops all over the country
