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Daniel D'Agaro was born in Spilimbergo (Friuli, Italy) in 1958. He started his professional activities in 1979, playing with the Mittel Europa Orchestra, an Italian big band that performed improvised music along with many international guest artists. In 1979 Daniel D'Agaro has moved to Berlin, and later on to Amsterdam, where he has resided since 1984. He has performed and toured with many musicians representative of the improvised music, among others Tom Harrell and Han Bennink. He was a member of many famous Dutch bands like J.C. Tans Orchestra, Sean Bergin's M.O.B. and has toured with the Caribbean group Frankie Douglas' Sunchild. He formed the Lingua Franca Trio with the American cellist Tristan Honsinger and the Dutch bassist Ernst Glerum. In October 1991 he composed and performed a piece commissioned for the international "October Meeting '91" festival in Amsterdam, for an ensemble which included improvisers and the Val Resia Ensemble, an ethnic string conclave from the Eastern Italian alps. In the fall of 1993 he toured with a project, consisting of his Lingua Franca Trio, the Griot singer from Senegal Mola Sylla and the computer and electronica specialist Richard Teitelbaum. Today the group features the original clarinet, cello and bass combination, plus the Senegalese singer Mola Sylla, percussionist Paco Diedhiou and dancer Issa Sow. Together with fellow tenorists Sean Bergin and Tobias Delius, D'Agaro leads the Trio San Francisco, a formation that combines many aspects of improvised music, such as South African Kwela, Jazz, Folk Music, etc. They perform on different sets of instruments, like saxes, clarinets, flutes and concertina. Recently he toured with his new project "Hidden Treasures, the unpublished music of Don Byas", a quintet featuring veteran trumpeter Benny Bailey and drummer Han Bennink, also appearing at the North Sea Jazz Festival 1996 at the Hague. Selected discography: * Trio Lingua Franca, Lingua Franca, Nimbus Recs., Santa Barbara, CA, 1991 * Sean Bergin's M.O.B., Live at the Bimhuis, BV Haast, Holland, 1992 * Amsterdam Drama, Amsterdam Drama, VPRO, Holland, 1992 * D'Agaro/Delius Quartet, Byas a Drink, Nota, Italy, 1993 * Trio San Francisco, Prisoners of Pleasure, BV Haast, Holland, 1996 * Gijs Hendricks, The Construction Company, feat. Tom Harrell, VPRO, Holland, 1996 * D.D'Agaro/B.Bailey Quintet, Hidden Treasures - the unpublished music of Don Byas,    to be published

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