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- Carmassi recorded 2 albums and toured 42 countries with the Pat Metheny Unity Group, with Antonio Sanchez, Chris Potter and Ben Williams, starting with the 2014 album "Kin", on piano, vocals, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, flute, saxophone, vibraphone, french horn and cello. The album debuted #1 in the jazz charts, and the group brought home both the "best album" and "best band" nods from DownBeat magazine. He's also the pianist, singer and trumpeter on Metheny's "The Unity Sessions" (2016).
He's recorded and toured with the Will Lee's Family band, alongside Steve Gadd and Chuck Loeb, alternating tenor saxophone, trumpet, Hammond organ, guitar, percussion and vocals on stage.
He was also in NY the keyboard player of the Lew Soloff's band, alongside Mark Egan, Keith Carlock, Will Lee, Oz Noy, Lou Marini and many others.
With his writing partner Bryan Scary, he founded the film music production team Hummingbirds.
Their latest movie "Please Baby Please" (with Harry Melling, Andrea Riseborough and Demi Moore), just won best narrative feature at Outfest LA, and is set for US theater release this fall.
Among their latest work, also the Sundance movie "Black Bear" (with Aubrey Plaza, Sarah Gadon and Chris Abbott), and the mock 70s disco one hour special "Give me Pity" (with Sophie Von Haselberg).
As a team they've scored and sound designed dozens of national commercials for Adidas, Uber, Ford, Volvo, Toyota, AARP, Royal Caribbean, Visa, Coca Cola and Unicef, and many others.
They also wrote 2 show themes for Netflix, and one for CNN.
Carmassi's YouTube channel has collected nearly 2 million views. In his videos, Carmassi plays, records, films end edits video songs of all kinds, from symphonic rock extravaganzas, to Broadway songs, to fusion jazz music and hard rock. Born and raised in Italy, after living in both Paris and New York, Giulio Carmassi is now based in Los Angeles.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Giulio Carmassi
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