You can now 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 4 of David Occhipinti's CD's are now available on MP3 from iTunes. You can also visit CD Baby to make MP3 purchases.

Forty Revolutions, the latest CD by guitarist/composer David Occhipinti, was nominated for a 2007 Juno Award in the contemporary jazz category.

There are new audio clips of the latest CD and of "Four Pieces for String Quartet". Reviews (from CODA, JAZZTIMES and more....) of Forty Revolutions and new audio interviews from the tour...

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Guitarist/composer David Occhipinti lives in Toronto, Canada. He has four CD's featuring his own compositions: David Occhipinti (1997), Syzygy (1999), Intersection (2003) and Forty Revolutions (2007) which was nominated for a Juno Award.

David has 2 duo CD's out with saxophonist Mike Murley. Their first CD, Duologue (2002) was nominated for a Juno Award, a National Jazz Award and a Canadian Music "Indie" Award.

David has been commissioned to compose works for string quartet and other chamber ensembles.

David studied in New York with the legendary jazz guitarist Jim Hall during the mid 1990's.

David has toured in Canada, the US, Europe and Japan.

David Occhipinti teaches guitar, composition and ensembles at the University of Toronto and at Humber College.

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(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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