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Javier Edgardo Girotto was born in Cordoba on 17 April 1965. He approached music thanks to his maternal grandfather ALCaroli, band director, first playing the snare drum, then the small clarinet in E flat, in the Infanto Juvenil de Cordoba and in the band of Villa del Rosario, to then move to the one in B flat. The passage, for a clarinetist, to saxophone is natural. Once chosen the alto sax, he starts attending Buenos Aires, looking for someone to start jazz, unfortunately with no luck. Returning to Cordoba he formed his first jazz-inspired groups, devoting himself also to the commercial music of the so-called "Cuartetos". At sixteen he undertook classical studies, enrolling at the Provincial Conservatory of Cordoba and since there is no saxophone chair, he enrolled in clarinet and flute courses reaching the average completion in both instruments. In parallel with his studies in the conservatory he forms and collaborates with various groups, including the Vertiente, a mix of Argentine fusion and folklore, the Jazz 440, "Jam", the Enzo Piccioni Quartet and the Juan Ciallella Quartet.
At 19 he won a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music and the doors of the jazz world finally opened up to him. He stayed at the prestigious Boston school for four years, graduating in Professional Music "Cum Magna Laude". The four US years are profitable, a period in which he deepened his composition and arrangement and sax and improvisation studies with masters of the caliber of Joseph Viola, George Garzone, Hall Crook and Jerry Bergonzi, learning then, "the trade", playing with Danilo Perez, George Garzone, Hall Crook, Bob Moses, Herb Pomeroy and many other musicians from whom he collected a spark of their experience.
Javier Girotto's Italian adventure begins at the age of 25, to take care of some of his family's Apulian-born business (through Italian citizenship), deciding quickly to start his professional career in this country. Also in Italy he alternates the collaboration with groups of commercial music, Latin, with the formation of different jazz groups, with which he begins his tireless activity as a composer and arranger. His first Roman training was "Tercer Mundo", along with Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, on the tracks of Latin jazz, a sextet formed by piano, bass, percussion, drums, trumpet and sax, closely followed by the "Six Sax" , a saxophone quartet, with bass and drums, composed by Rosario Giuliani and Tony Germani at the top, Gianni Savelli at the tenor, Javier at the baritone, Marco Siniscalco at the bass and Pietro Iodice at the drums, with whom he recorded his first cd “Homenaje ”In 1995 with special guest Bob Mintzer and Randy Brecker. In this same period the group was born for which Girotto's soprano and baritone saxes are best known, Aires Tango, with Alessandro Gwis at the piano, Marco Siniscalco on bass and Michele Rabbia on drums and percussion, in a combination of the reasons of tango with those of jazz that, starting from the pleasure of listening to the styles of Argentine music, reassures the listener in dealing with the "rapids" of the "diversity" of his suns. With Aires Tango he records as many as 10 records and in 2009 they celebrate 15 years of life with their album "10/15" (precisely to indicate the 10th disc and 15 years of the group's life) gems of a path in which Girotto has always been accompanied from the unconditional approval of the public, which encouraged him to "open" the project to the voice of Peppe Servillo and to the symphony orchestra. In 1999 another group was born, "Cordoba Reunion", formed by four Cordobese musicians, Javier Girotto on sax and flutes, Gerardo Di Giusto on piano, Minino Garay on percussion and Carlos El Tero Buschini on bass, engaged in a project with which returns to the roots of his music, with an eye to those times that preceded the tango, dragging the listener into an empathetic and emotional journey in search of the rhythms of Argentine folklore such as the milonga, chacarera, zamba and candombe, group, which has recorded a first album with the singer Mercedes Sosa. And a second in 2012 "Sin Lugar a Dudas" for the Swiss radio station Lugano Rete Due.
In 2000 Javier Girotto formed a double duo: the first with the bandoneon by Daniele Di Bonaventura, with whom he recorded three records: "Javier Girotto Plays Rava", "Recordando Piazzolla" and "Recordando Gardel" with an orchestra of 13 strings;
The second Duo with Luciano Biondini (accordion) with whom he recorded 3 C.D. with all original compositions, but returning once more to freer improvisation. the first record is from 2002 for the Philology label "El Cacerolazo", the second in 2005 for the ENJA RECORDS label "Terra Madre". The third disc and DVD "Iguazù" with live dvd in Ukraina. Also this duo sees them as protagonists in the festivals and clubs not only in Italy but mostly in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Holland, Eastern Europe, Argentina, Peru, etc.
In this same year he began his collaboration with the prestigious ONJ, the Orchester National du Jazz of Paris (France).
Among the formations of Javier Girotto is the elegant duo formed with the Argentine pianist Natalio Mangalavite, with whom he recorded Colibrì, a CD that represents the synthesis of the entire South American feeling, to which the voice of Peppe Servillo has recently been added , thus going to create the GSM Trio Already Servillo had collaborated with Girotto in some Aires Tango projects as a guest and over time the collaboration solidified into a desire to create a project together where the singer was the protagonist from the beginning to the end and that sees the realization of this project on their first album titled "The Friend of Cordoba" for "The Manifesto CD" Peppe Servillo is the author of the texts and Girotto of the music. In 2008 the Trio G.S.M. registers the second c.d. from title "Futbol" with guest Toni Servillo and Fausto Mesolella.
In 2002 he joined the Enrico Rava quartet "Piano less" with which he recorded a CD. "Full of Life" together with Ares Tavolazzi and Fabrizio Sferra.
Then it forms and records the first album "Nauhel" and: from the "Il Manifesto" Javier Girotto & Vertere String Quartet, favoring a repertoire arranged by Luigi Giannatempo with original music by Girotto supported by the string quartet.
2006 Together with Paolo Silvestri Ensemble and Luciano Biondini he forms what would be the continuation of the "Anniversary" album made with Aires Tango and the Sofia Symphony Orchestra, recording the first album for Giotto Music
In the meantime, with the PMJO (Jazz Music Orchestra Park - Rome Auditorium), he records the album "Argentina: Escenas en Big Band" with original compositions by Girotto, arranged by Luigi Giannatempo; in December '08 he was invited by the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam for a tour throughout the Netherlands presenting this project of big band and in August 2010 he will be guest of the WDR big band (of the radio of Cologne - Germany) for a "Jazz tango" project with Gary Burton and Marcelo Nisinman.
In November 2008, together with Paolo Silvestri, he presents the "Concerto Latino" for symphony orchestra and soprano sax composed by Silvestri for Girotto and in addition compositions by Girotto himself, with the San Marino symphony orchestra, Marchigiana Philharmonic orchestra, Magna Grecia orchestra of Taranto, regional orchestra of Rome and Lazio, a project that will be seen again with all the best European symphony orchestras.
Also in 2008, together with Fabrizio Bosso, he created the "Latin Mood" documenting this project in the "Tribute" album and recording the "Sol" record for the Blue Note in the same year; and in 2012 the album "Vamos"
Another project is to have developed an original repertoire for saxophone quartet together with the Atem Saxophon Quartet soloist, composer and arranger himself Girotto, documenting this work in the album "SUIX" produced by the label Parco della Musica in Rome, and in 2013 the second record of this project for his own label "Araucanos".
2009 records a solo record for L’Espresso “live Italian jazz” recorded at the Casa del jazz in Rome ”together with Aires Tango and Luciano Biondini.
In 2011 he began his own recording adventure by inaugurating the "JG records" with his first album (recorded completely in Argentina and with musicians from Cordoba and old friends) "Alrededores de la Ausencia"
From 2009 to 2011 he was a teacher in the jazz professorship at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, he gave countless seminars in the conservatories of Pesaro, Lecce, Salerno, Como, Turin, Lima (Peru), Cordoba (Argentina), etc. ... and in the various music schools from all over Italy and the world.
In 2012 he formed a duo together with the renowned classical pianist Michele Campanella "Musique sans Frontiére" project where he proposed the repertoire of the great classical authors such as Debussy-RavelGuastavino, etc. .. contaminating this wonderful piano music with improvisation and extra insertion of the saxophone. Project disc in March 2014 for the CAM JAZZ label.
Also in November and December 2012 he made a tour in the South American jazz festivals (Uruguay - Argentina - Brasil) together with guitarist and pianist Ralph Towner
In November 2016, there began a disturbance in the left hand, and throughout 2017 and mid-2018 a hard battle began against a disease called FOCAL DISTONY OF THE MUSICIAN, a disorder that did not allow to play and the hand suffered a crumple that did not allow movements correct, fortunately solved (after a thousand attempts, research and personal work on this rare pathology) in May 2018, thus giving a restart to his musical activity with a tour in Argentina and Uruguay and a project all arranged by Javier on Lucio Battisti and the second album with Michele Campanella VERS LA GRANDE DE KIEV - LIVE AT JERMANN WINERY with music revisited on Mussorgsky - Rachmaninov - Stravinsky, etc. in 2017 he published a book and album "ESCENAS EN SOLO" MUSIC FOR SAXOPHONE SOLO "and disco in Sax just registered before getting sick
Infinite are the collaborations of Javier Girotto, from Enrico Rava with whom we find him an interesting baritone in the Pianoless quartet, a tribute to Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan, with whom he recorded Full of Life, to Roberto Gatto, backbone of the quintet, with whom has participated in three compacts "7 #," Sing sing Sing "and" Deep ", with the trombonist Gianluca Petrella, with whom he recorded" X-Ray ", by Rita Marcotulli, whose formations is the Argentine-ethnic soul in alternating with the Andean flute and the soprano, with which he recorded "The woman next door" "Koinè" and a disc for the magazine L'Espresso in 2009, "Nanà", "Variations on the theme", etc ...