DMA Urban Jazz Funk

The main concept behind DMA's musical project is to merge jazz music with different kinds of "urban music" like hip-hop, funk, acid and nu jazz, and also with ethnic and world music. DMA, since their birth in 1995, have gained a large international cult following, having played in Jazz festivals around the world: Canada, Spain, Mexico, Jamaica, Antilles, Greece, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Venezuela, Switzerland, Slovenia and Croatia. DMA’s creative unit is composed by venetian saxophonist Marco Castelli (founding member), by Brazilian bassist Edu Hebling and by pianist Alfonso santimone, also working on samples and electronics. The group from 1995, has found increasing critical and public acclaim in prestigious festivals such as the Montreal Jazz Festival (Canada), St. Sebastian Jazz Festival (Spain), Cervantino International Music Festival (Mexico), Ocho Rios Jazz Festival (Jamaica), the Curaçao Jazz Festival (Dutch Antilles), Jazzkaar Tallin (Estonia), Cervantes en todas partes and Merida Music Festival (Mexico), Downtown Toronto Jazz Festival and Atlantic Jazz Festival Halifax (Canada), Corinthos Jazz Festival (Greece), Gostenhofer Jazztages Nuremberg (Germany), Half Notes Athens (Greece), Kaunas Jazz Festival (Lithuania), and in concerts in Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Switzerland, Slovenia and Croatia. The band has been widely re-formed in 2003, and with the new line-up new musical borders came along, leaving acid jazz to develeop a “contaminated” sound, adding poetic and literary echoes to the music. Before “Urban Vox” DMA have recorded two albums: “Urban Jazz Funk” and “Up To the Beat”. You can find some of their tracks in many acid jazz and nu jazz compilations.. Marco Castelli sax, electronics Edu Hebling electric and acoustic bass Alfonso Santimone keys, electronics Luca Bortoluzzi batteria Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.