Rick Britto

Description:

Screen Name:

Rick Britto

Sex:

M

Age:

53

Studio Musician:

Yes

Level Of Commitment:

Very Committed

Years Playing Music:

35

Gigs Played:

Over 100

Tend to Practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to Gig:

2-3 time(s) per week

Most available:

Nights

Born in New Bedford, MA., Rick Britto is a well known jazz educator and musician in the New England area.

As a jazz player, Rick has performed with many artists in the New England area including Karl Berger, Santi Debriano, Harold Jones, Bobby Greene, Jimmy Lomba, Jim Robitaille, Semenya McCord, John Harrison, Chris Poudrier, Bruce Gertz, Jackie Santos, Dave Zinno, Herb King, Matt Richard, Kenny Wensel, Lou Columbo, Paul Delnero, Todd Baker, Jack Mena, Frank Wilkins, Lavene Simms, Alon Yavnai, Lonnie Gasperini, Marcelle Gauvin and numerous other local musicians.

Nationally he has been double billed with such notables as Buddy Rich, Ray Brown, Rosemary Clooney, The Artie Shaw Band and Count Basie's Orchestra.

As an educator at both the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and Wheaton College, Rick teaches saxophone, jazz piano, jazz ensemble and African-American Music History. He also coaches the jazz bands for New Bedford High and Old Rochester Regional High Schools and teaches private lessons for piano and music theory at The Symphony Music Shop in North Dartmouth, MA.
Rick owns a recording studio, "Saurus Studio", in New Bedford, MA where he has produced numerous commercials for radio & TV and recordings for many local artists. He composed and produced the musical soundtrack of "Profiles Of Living History" a video documentary on Black History for the Black Heritage Foundation of New Bedford funded by The Polaroid Corporation.
His most recent studio projects include digitally mastering a CD for Tazinho a well known Cape Verdean musician from the New Bedford area. CD mastering for a new book, Music of South India published by Professor Matthew Allen of Wheaton College released by Oxford University Press. Scoring for a new book by Prof. Paul Asterlitz, "Jazz Consciousness Music, Race, and Humanity" by Wesleyan University Press distributed by University Press of New England.

His jazz composition, “Hot Summer’s Night” is on Dan Moretti's CD "Saxual” on which Rick also plays keys plus two of Rick’s jazz compositions “Nova Samba and “Xumusca” are on the “Whaling City Sound Superband Live” CD.

Performance on new CD release, "Holy City" with The Lord's Orphans, best described as a modern day American version of Pink Floyd with a mix of other influences that include Peter Gabriel, late Beatles, The Doors, Alan Parsons Project and Led Zeppelin.

Rick's avante garde jazz trio "TRINE" featuring fellow musicians Jim Robitaille on guitar and Chris Poudrier on drums just released a new CD on the Fuller Street Music label called "POLITICS".

He is also on a new CD release by Andy McWain. "The Andy McWain Ensemble: RESEMBLANCE" released this Spring 08. It features eight musicians (including Sofia Koutsovitis, Assif Tsahar, Rick Britto, Chris Poudrier, Jeremy Udden, David Landoni, and Albey Balgochian) in various combinations from solo piano, duos, and trios to sextet.

Influences:

Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, etc...

Equipment List:

Tenor Sax
Soprano Sax
Clarinet
Penny Whistle
WX5 MIDI Wind Synth

Multiple Synth and Sampler Keyboards and GIGA Studio

24 Track Digital Studio
Cubase SX/Sound Forge/CD Architect/VST Instruments
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Multiple Computers: 3 desktops, 3 laptops all

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