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Dominick
Farinacci
 Dominick
Farinacci, a 25-year-old graduate of The Juilliard School, will release
his highly anticipated debut U.S. album, Lovers, Tales & Dances, on
February 24th, 2009 on KOCH Records. The album features some of the
greatest players in jazz, including Kenny Barron, James Genus, Marc
Johnson, Lewis Nash, Jamey Haddad, Joe Lovano, and Joe Locke. The
record also features guest vocalist Hilary Kole, and orchestral
arrangements by Rich DeRosa. Lovers, Tales & Dances was produced by
the legendary Russ Titelman.
Dominick has won various awards over the years in the United States and
in Japan. Having previously recorded six albums as a leader on Japan's
M&I label, he received Gold Disc awards
for two of those recordings from Swing Journal Magazine: Say It and
Besame Mucho. In 2003 he received the International New Star Award in
Japan, an honor previously awarded to Diana Krall
and Christian McBride. Many of his Japanese releases have placed #1 on
the Swing Journal Jazz Charts. In the United States, Dominick was the
recipient of the ITG Carmine Caruso
International Jazz Trumpet Competition in 2003. Over the years he has
performed and/or recorded with many high-profile jazz artists such as
Joe Lovano, Wynton Marsalis, Ira Sullivan, Mulgrew Miller, Carl Allen,
Jason Miles, and Joe LaBarbera.
In September 2001, Dominick moved to New York to attend Juilliard.
Within the first two months of school, Wynton invited Dominick to be
featured in a concert at Lincoln Center; a tribute to two of his
favorite trumpet players, Freddie Hubbard and Lee Morgan: Night of the
Cookers. Upon graduating from Juilliard, Dominick signed with The
Jazz Tree, a well-known management company in New York City whose
roster of past clients over the years has included Diana Krall, Joshua
Redman, Christian McBride, Freddie Hubbard and J.J. Johnson, among
distinguished others.
n 2006 Dominick was featured at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
on Dee Dee Bridgewater’s JazzSet for NPR, as well as at the Tanglewood
Jazz Festival. He was a member of Miles to Miles, a band led by Jason
Miles, and was featured on various recordings Jason produced: What’s
Going On: A Tribute to Marvin Gaye, and 2 Grover With Love: a Tribute
to Grover Washington Jr. He also performed and recorded with
saxophonist Joe Lovano in 2007.
In 2008 Dominick debuted his own band at the Montreal International
Jazz Festival, the Detroit International Jazz Festival, and the Tri-C
JazzFest. He toured Korea and Japan and signed his first major USA
recording contract with KOCH Records.
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