Renato D’Aiello
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Renato D'Aiello is an Italian saxophonist resident in London
London
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, United Kingdom
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.

He started his professional career playing with Giovanni Tommaso's big band
Big band
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 for a television programme in Italy. In 1987, Renato received a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...

.

Since October 2003 D'Aiello has been saxophone teacher at Sherborne School
Sherborne School
Sherborne School is a British independent school for boys, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. It is one of the original member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....

, Dorset.

Like Someone in Love (2000)

Like Someone in Love was recorded with Damon Brown and features seven songs, amongst them well-known titles like Like Someone in Love
Like Someone in Love
Like Someone in Love is an album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol...

 and I Remember You
I Remember You (1941 song)
"I Remember You" is a popular song. The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1941.The song was one of several introduced in the movie The Fleet's In...

.

Introducing (2001)

Introducing, also labelled as Renato D’Aiello Euro All Stars feat. Phil Lee was released in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2001. The Spotlite-Jazz
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Spotlite Records is a British jazz record label. It was founded in 1968, originally as an outlet for Charlie Parker's Dial recordings.- External links :*...

-published CD features Nicola Muresu (bass), Sebastian de Krom (drums), Phil Lee (guitar), Gary Husband
Gary Husband
Gary Husband is a British jazz and rock drummer, pianist and composer.- Short biography:Gary Husband is an English jazz and rock drummer, pianist and composer...

 (piano), and Mark Bassey (trombone).

Sintetico (2007)

Sintetico, which was recorded on November 17, 2005 at Fishmarket Studio, London, was first published in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2007 by 33 Jazz Records
33 Jazz Records
This article is about the UK based jazz label '33' Jazz Records'33' was created in 1990 to develop a wider market for jazz and related music artists passing through the defunct 33 Jazz Club....

.

It was produced by Paul Jolly, mastered by Francesco Gorini and mixed by Dave Wooster. Bass was played by Nicola Muresu, drums by Keith Copeland
Keith Copeland
Keith Copeland is a jazz drummer and music educator.- As a musician :His father Ray Copeland was a jazz trumpet player, and he learned some by watching him, but he decided to go into drums after study's Art Blakey's records with The Jazz Messengers. In his teens he was sitting in with Barry...

 and piano by Andrea Pozza.

Sintetico does not only contain songs by well-known artists like Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...

 (Ellington's Sound of Love) or Frank Loesser
Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...

 (If I Should Lose You), but also tracks written by Muresu (Sintetico and Spite) and D’Aiello (Never Doubt and Be Nice).

Appearances

D’Aiello appeared on several tracks and releases such as
  • Ohm Guru – Funk My Ass (1995)
  • DJ Rodriguez – World Wide Funk (1998)
  • Paolo Fedreghini & Marco Bianchi – Circus In C Minor (2004)
  • Bobby Blanco & Miki Moto – Black Sugar (2005)
  • The Invisible Session – To The Powerful (2005)

Media

On June 19, 2007, Renato D’Aiello was interviewed about his album Sintetico by BBC Radio Ulster
BBC Radio Ulster
BBC Radio Ulster is one of two Northern Irish BBC radio stations, the other being BBC Radio Foyle located in the city of Derry. BBC Radio Ulster is located at Broadcasting House in the Ormeau Avenue area of Belfast city centre...

’s Jazz moderator Walter Love.

He was featured in several articles in The Guardian
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 and The Observer
The Observer
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 as well as on The Guardians website, and the website of the Oxford Times.

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