Aldemaro Romero
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Pino Presti, byname of Giuseppe Prestipino Giarritta, has distinguished himself as one of the most significant personalities of the Italian music business, he ranges between different musical genres, pop, jazz, funk, latin music, dance, considered an example for current musicians and producers.
Son of art (his father Arturo Prestipino Giarritta was a well known violinist), began studying piano and music theory
at the age of 6. He started to play bass guitar professionally at the age of 17, with his Ampeg B-15 amp, after
learning the instrument from self-taught, developing his special technique with pick or thumb.
Pioneer of electric bass, he was probably the first to play a Fender Jazz Bass in Italy.
His talent, a considerable groove in his bass lines and a unique sound, immediately led him to collaborate in the
60s with major Italian pop artists, including Mina (the most famous Italian pop singer) who demanded him for all her
recordings and tours from 1971 onwards also as an arranger and conductor up until her last public apparances in 1978.
For the singer Presti arranged and conducted 86 tracks and several legendary albums, including some masterpieces like:
"Grande, Grande, Grande", "E poi…", "L'importante è finire”.
Presti composed four songs for Mina: "Tentiamo ancora", for the album “Frutta e verdura” (1973), "L'amore è un'altra cosa",
for “Mina” (1974), "Amante amore", for “Mina con bignè” (1977), and "Bignè", for “Ridi pagliaccio” (1988).
In 1976 Pino Presti released and produced for Atlantic Records the Album “1st Round”, considered the first funk-dance production in Italy and one of the most innovative albums of the 70's in the Italian music scene.
During his prolific career on recordings on stage as bassist, composer, arranger, conductor he has collaborated with some of the biggest names in Italian and international music scene, like Mina, Gerry Mulligan, Astor Piazzolla (the bassline in the famous composition "Libertango" belongs to him), Shirley Bassey, Quincy Jones, Wilson Pickett, Franco Cerri, Ornella Vanoni, Milva, Stéphane Grappelli, Maynard Ferguson, Tullio De Piscopo, Aldemaro Romero, Ellade Bandini and many others.
Presti is currently active with new productions and reinterpretations of his successes like “Funky Bump” , "You Know The Way”, "Disco Shitan", "To Africa / Soul Makossa”, licensed to Best Records Italy for Special Extended Vinyl Edition.
In 2009 Pino Presti released and produced on Edizioni Musicali Curci, "A La Costa Sud (La Musique De La Côte D'Azur)", a compilation album that consists of 3 CDs performed by 28 vocalists and / or instrumentalists who are from various continents and nations but who regularly play in theaters, clubs and festivals in the French Riviera.
In 2011, he composed a five hours soundtrack comprising music of different genres for Grand Heritage Hotel Group (and for its related media). These genres range from classic jazz, to nu jazz, bossanova, world music, and ambient music.
In 2013 Presti co-produced the tribute album Shirley Bunnie Foy, consisting of seventeen tracks performed by jazz vocalist Shirley Bunnie Foy in her 60 years career. The album includes such noted artists as The Dell-Tones, Tony Scott, Archie Shepp, Franco Cerri, Lou Bennett, among others.
In 2014 Presti composed, co-produced and released, under the pseudonym Mad of Jazz, the album Deep Colors, with the collaboration of keyboardists, synth programmers and composers Claudio and Andrea Calzolari.
In 2016 he has composed the music for the Advertising campaign 2016 of Scavolini, an Italian kitchen and bathroom products designer and manufacturer. ( “Wikipedia-Ref” )
Born and resident in Milan for a large part of his life but always a lover of the sea, in 2004 he landed in Nice.
To be cited inevitably, also the discipline of Karate that has earned Pino Presti san the 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate obtained in 1987, after 20 years of training with Master Hiroshi Shirai.
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Mina & Pino Presti orchestra on occasion of her last public performance in summer 1978
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Pino Presti
“Smile” - SINGLE - 7”, 1975
Pino Presti
”First Round” - ALBUM, 1976
Pino Prest
”Funky Bump” - SINGLE - 7”, 1976
Pino Presti
“Disco Shitan” - SINGLE - 7”, 1977
Pino Presti
“You know the way” - SINGLE - 7”, 1979
Pino Presti & Wayra
“Maja Andina” - ALBUM, 1990
Pino Presti
“Mad of Jazz” - SINGLE 12”, 1992
Various Artists
“A La Costa Sud” - ALBUM, 2009
Various Artists
“A La Costa Sud - JAZZ” - ALBUM, 2009
Various Artists
“A La Costa Sud - LATIN&WORLD” - ALBUM, 2009
Various Artists
“A La Costa Sud - LOVE_FLAVORS” - ALBUM, 2009
Shirley Bunnie Foy
“60th Anniversary” - ALBUM, 2013
Pino Presti
“Mad of Jazz” - ALBUM, 2014
Pino Presti
“Funky Bump” - SINGLE 12”, 2015
Pino Presti
“You Know The Way SINGLE 12”, 2016
Pino Presti
“To Africa Soul Makossa” - EP, 2017
Pino Presti
“You Know Why” - EP, 2018
Pino Presti
“Money -That’s what I want” - SINGLE 12”, 2018
Franco Cerri
”12 bacchette per 1 chitarra” - ALBUM, 1966
Puccio Roelens
“Love and more love” - ALBUM, 1969
Shirley Bassey
”This is my life” - ALBUM, 1970
Aldemaro Romero
“La onda màxima” - ALBUM, 1971
Augusto Martelli
"Black sound for white people" - ALBUM, 1972
Perez Prado
“Escandalo” - ALBUM, 1972/2014
Franco Cerri
“Ieri & oggi” - ALBUM, 1973/2004
Astor Piazzolla
“Libertango” - ALBUM, 1974
Gerry Mulligan/Astor Piazzolla
”Summit” - (Tango Nuevo) - ALBUM, 1974
Augusto Martelli
”The Real McCoy” - ALBUM, 1974
Mulligan - Intra
“Gerry Mulligan Meets Enrico Intra” - ALBUM, 1976
Aldemaro Romero
”Onda nueva - Instrumental” - ALBUM, 1976
Severino Gazzelloni
“Il flauto d’oro - in pop” - ALBUM, 1983
Mina
“Dedicato a mio Padre” - ALBUM, 1967
Mina
“Mina alla Bussola dal vivo" - ALBUM, 1968
Mina
“Quando tu mi spiavi in cima a un batticuore” - ALBUM, 1970
Mina
“Del mio meglio“ - ALBUM, 1971
Mina
“Mina" - ALBUM, 1971
Mina
“Altro" - ALBUM, 1972
Mina
“Cinquemilaquarantatre" - ALBUM, 1972
Mina
“Grande Grande Grande" - SINGLE, 1972
Mina
“Frutta e Verdura" - ALBUM, 1973
Mina
“Amanti Di Valore" - ALBUM, 1973
Mina
“E Poi" - SINGLE, 1973
Mina
“Lamento D'amore" - SINGLE, 1973
Mina
“Domenica sera(Domingo de noche)” - SINGLE, 1973
Mina
“Del mio meglio n 2“ - ALBUM, 1973
Mina
“Baby Gate" - ALBUM, 1974
Mina
“R” - ALBUM, 1974
Mina
“Und Dann" - SINGLE, 1974
Mina
“La scala buia” - SINGLE, 1974
Mina
“L’importante é finire" - SINGLE, 1975
Mina
“La Mina”- ALBUM, 1975
Mina
“Del mio meglio n 3” - ALBUM, 1975
Mina
“Nuda" - SINGLE, 1976
Mina
“Singolare" - ALBUM, 1976
Mina
“Mina Con Bignè" - ALBUM, 1977
Mina
“Città_Vuota" - SINGLE, 1978
Mina
“Mina Live ’78” - ALBUM, 1978
Mina
“Del mio meglio n 5” - ALBUM, 1979
Mina
“Del mio meglio n 6” - ALBUM, 1981
Mina
“Del mio meglio n 8” - ALBUM, 1985
Mina
“Oggi ti amo di più” - ALBUM, 1988
Mina
“Mazzini canta Battisti” - ALBUM, 1994
Mina
“Studio Collection” - ALBUM, 1998
Mina
“Love Collection” - ALBUM, 2000
Mina
“The Platinum Collection” - ALBUM, 2004
Mina
“The Platinum Collection 2” - ALBUM, 2006
Mina
“I am Mina” - ALBUM, 2011
Mina
“Je suis Mina” - ALBUM, 2011
Mina
“Yo soi Mina” - ALBUM, 2011
Mina
“The Collection 3.0” - ALBUM, 2015
Mina
“Tutte le migliori” - ALBUM, 2017
Mina
“PARADISO” (Lucio Battisti Songbook) - ALBUM, 2018
In the musical career of Pino Presti, one of the most significative collaboration was the work with bandoneonist, composer, arranger, Astor Piazzolla with whom he performed on several recordings, including the Grammy Winner "Libertango", defined « the composition that has radically changed the structure of Tango , symbolizing Piazzolla's break from a classical tango to Tango Nuevo ».
The bassline created and played by Pino Presti and the drumming of Tullio De Piscopo which marked the stylistic turning point of Piazzolla, were decisive.
« Abre el disco una intensa melodía de bandoneón propulsada por un excelente trabajo de la batería y el bajo eléctrico.La entrada de la orquesta de cuerdas aporta un toque cinematográfico y nos prepara para la parte central protagonizada por el propio Astor y un gran Pino Presti. “Libertango” es una composición muy breve pero condensa en menos de tres minutos toda la esencia de la música del argentino. Si embargo, se echa de menos una mayor duración para desarrollar algunas ideas » (Mike Shorter - La voz de los vientos)