South African composer/bassist, Egberto Gismonti, has recorded and performed at numerous international festivals including the Rome Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival and the Stockholm Jazz Festival. He also participated in the ‘Leipziger Jazztage’ festivals and Banlieues Bleues festivals in Paris and Norway. Egberto Gismonti and he also recorded with Lee Konitz on Enja Records. He also contributed music to the 1989 tribute to Jaco Pastorius, “Basstorius”, which also featured Mathew Garrison (bass) and Carles Benavent (bass). He spent two years working for the Paris-based Lutherie Urbaine, where he helped to build instruments from recycled materials. Back home, he can be heard on many recordings as a bassist with, among others, Marcus Wyatt and Simphiwe Dana. He was a producer on Shane Cooper’s album “Oscillations”, which won the jazz album award at the 2014 SAMA Awards. He has choreographed many ballets to his music and has received composition commissions for the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet’ as well as his 2013 composition for the Grammy-winning New York String Quartet, ‘Ethel’. He has also been nominated for three SAMA (South African Music Awards), for his recordings. He currently teaches at Wits University, Johannesburg, where he received his doctorate in composition in 2009. from http://www.carlomombelli.com
