LEGACY – Out Now!

A self-made-man, Italo-Belgian virtuoso drummer Bruno Castellucci has been a leading musician worldwide for six decades.
He can be heard on hundreds of recordings and in thousands of concerts, from the few leaders with whom he has played for sometimes more than thirty or forty years, such as Toots Thielemans, Peter Herbolzheimer, Jan Akkerman, to many other luminaries such as Jaco Pastorius, Chet Baker, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, Chaka Khan, Sammy Davis, Jr., John Scofield, Dizzy Gillespie, Dianne Reeves, the Count Basie Big Band, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Wheeler, Astor Piazzola, …. It would be much quicker to draw up a list of our favorite musicians with whom he has not played.
Besides his exceptional career as a performing artist, he also has a long experience as a music pedagogue (Séminaire de Jazz à Liège, Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles, Rotterdam Conservatory of Music, Hamburg Conservatory of Music, his own Drums High School – Brussels, and countless international workshops), and a creator/inventor of musical gear and instruments (for instance the “Duo Ride” cymbals series for SABIAN, which he created in 1988).

With his new group “LEGACY”, Bruno is celebrating a brilliant career spanning over sixty years, as well as his 80th birthday.
To this end, he has surrounded himself with Belgium’s most international jazz guitarist Jeanfrançois Prins, master pianist Vincent Bruyninckx, and virtuosa bassist Bo Waterschoot. The quartet was originally hired to participate as the only musical group at the centenary celebrations of music pedagogue Dante Agostini in 2022 in Urbino, Italy, where the Castellucci family has its roots. Their performance there was a resounding success, and they have been performing regularly ever since. While on the road, the guitarist, pianist and bassist realized that we were all students of Bruno’s at some point, hence the band’s name: Legacy.
And the name makes even more sense since Bruno’s daughter Catherine joined them for one song (Fragile), and his son Ugo took the beautiful cover photo.
Castellucci LEGACY’s music travels easily through various styles and influences of the jazziztic heritage, putting their personal stamp on it, by means of original compositions and arrangements of great standards, underlining their interactivity, and the fluidity of their musical communication.