photo by Nadia Molinari

photo by Nadia Molinari

Guitarist/Composer David Occhipinti released his new CD, Camera on December 7, 2012. Camera is now available on CD, MP3 and 24-bit WAV files. To order, please go to the Discography/Purchase page.

Here's what David's mentor and hero, legendary jazz guitarist and composer, Jim Hall had to say about Camera:

"David Occhipinti has created an absolute gem. His writing is unique, his playing is completely original and stunning. I just wanted to keep listening…
His music is an absolute work of art!"

-Jim Hall

There are new reviews of Camera on the Reviews page, along with an audio interview with fellow guitarist Andy Scott.

Click here to read an interview with David and Ottawa Jazzscene.ca from January 2012

You can order David's CD's with a credit card directly from the Discography/Purchase page. You'll be directed to Paypal from there. Lead Sheets are also available. All 5 of David Occhipinti's CD's and Duologue Vol. II are now available on MP3 from iTunes. You can also visit CD Baby to make MP3 purchases.

Camera, David Occhipinti’s fifth CD, features his composing and guitar playing in a chamber music setting.
David’s fourth CD featuring his own compositions, Forty Revolutions, was nominated for a 2007 Juno Award.
David has also released two duo CD’s with saxophonist Mike Murley. Their first CD, Duologue, was nominated for a Juno Award in 2003.

As a composer, David has received commissions to compose for solo artists, chamber groups and large ensembles.

In 2011, David founded The Walrus Quartet with fellow guitarists Roddy Ellias, Ted Quinlan and Kim Ratcliffe.

David has performed all across Canada, in the U.S., Europe, Japan and in Italy where he lived for a short time. David’s development as an artist has been aided by the composition, recording and touring grants received from the Canada Council for the Arts, Chalmer’s Arts Fellowship, the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the DFAIT.

David Occhipinti studied in New York with the legendary jazz guitarist Jim Hall during the mid 1990's. David presently teaches guitar, composition and ensembles at the University of Toronto and Humber College.

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(Camera)

"David Occhipinti has created an absolute gem. His writing is unique, his playing is completely original and stunning. I just wanted to keep listening…
His music is an absolute work of art!"
-Jim Hall

"Frank Zappa meets Stravinsky...a master composer and performer. I thoroughly enjoyed playing his music!"
- Beverley Johnston (played marimba on Camera)

"David Occhipinti is a badass. His latest CD, Camera, is like nothing I've heard."
Greg Wells (Producer)

"Beautiful work... Lyrical, challenging, and intelligent"
- Mike Murley (Saxophonist)

(Forty Revolutions)....

"Occhipinti's rare achievement is to say something new and moving in an idiom that could be considered exhausted, while also demonstrating that jazz played softly can have a mighty impact"

"The fourth album of original music from guitarist Occhipinti, who toured its suave, sophisticated music throughout Canada this past October, will surely make a number of 2007's top ten lists. It's a meticulous tapestry of tonal nuance and understated passion. A glowing, seven-tune album that should grace any guitar lover's rack - any jazz lover's rack in fact."

-CODA MAGAZINE (Geoff Chapman)

"Excellent chamber jazz from some of Canada's best conceptualists"

-JAZZEAST RISING

"(Intersection)...It's definitely music for today, streamlined yet atmospheric...a listener hears the rare but gratifying combination of lyricism and cutting edge music."

Geoff Chapman -THE TORONTO STAR

"With an exploratory compositional and playing style that incorporates influences from a variety of sources, David Occhipinti has delivered his strongest effort to date. Intersection positions him as one of Canada’s finest young composers and performers, and bodes well for the future."

-PLANET JAZZ

"...couldn't ask for a better showcase than his eponymously titled debut... a postmodern acoustic date that thrives on the guitarist's memorable, contemporary-sounding tunes...while recalling the impressionistic, delicate beauty of Occhipinti's hero, Jim Hall."

-JAZZIZ Magazine

“I’m working with a great guitar player here named David Occhipinti. We have a quartet with Andrew Downing (on bass) and Mike Murley who plays tenor.
It’s one of those groups where David writes in odd time signatures. He writes very fluently and fluidly in all genres but he’s kind of carved out his own niche and carved out his own sound. His music really challenges me in a way that I haven’t been challenged as far as exploring time signatures and different kind of moods. It’s the type of music that doesn’t have any precedent - so the four of us really create a sound that isn’t jazz, it isn’t classical, it isn’t folk, it’s just really good music.”

-drummer Terry Clarke (in an interview with Renee Rosnes for CBC radio)

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