Renato D'Aiello Quartet

Event information

Renato D’Aiello - tenor sax
Jake Werth - piano
Lorenzo Morabito -  bass
Alfonso Vitale - drums

Renato D'Aiello returns to the East Side after impressing on his debut here last year . He is a British-resident Italian jazz saxophonist . He has become known as one of the strongest and most original saxophone sounds around. His treatments of jazz standards, and originals, both live and on cd, have won great admiration from audiences and the press. Renato studied with masters such as Sal Nistico, Tony Scott, Steve Grossman and Joe Henderson. He has played with great jazzmen like: Art Farmer,Sal Nistico, Steve Grossman, Eddie Duran, Kirk Lightsey, Keith Copeland, Duffy Jackson, Tony Scott, Jim Mullen, Bruce Forman, Gene Calderazzo, Phil Lee, G.Husband., Alain Jean Marie.

For 10 years before the Covid pandemic Renato ran the very successful Monday night Upstairs at Ronnie Scotts.

For this gig the band will be playing standards from the jazz canon

“Renato is a superlative saxophonist with a passionate and poetic soul. He has all the virtues - a beautiful sense of time and pacing and a technique which effortlessly projects his brilliantly flowing ideas.”
Ian Carr, Jazz writer