SPECIAL EFX ALL-STARS
(5-8 piece band featuring a customizable array of world-class featured guests)
SPECIAL EFX featuring Chieli Minucci
(4-5 piece band)
Chieli Minucci – guitars/Special EFX & Special EFX All-Stars bandleader (GRAMMY-nominee, 3x Emmy Award winner)
Eric Marienthal – sax (Grammy winner, Chick Corea Elektric Band, Elton John)
Karen Briggs – violin (bandleader, Yanni, Stanley Clarke)
Lin Rountree – trumpet (bandleader)
Rebecca Jade – award winning contemporary vocalist
Elliott Yamin – vocals (American Idol finalist!)
Brian Bromberg – bass (Grammy nominee)
Nelson Rangell – sax, flute (bandleader, Dave Grusin, Patti Austin)
Paul Brown – guitarist, Grammy winning producer for George Benson, Boney James, Norman Brown
Lao Tizer – keys (bandleader The Lao Tizer Band)
Joel Rosenblatt – drums (Special EFX, Spyro Gyra, Michel Camilo)
Jay Rowe – keyboards (Special EFX, Jessy J, Nick Colionne)
Mino Cinélu – percussion (Weather Report, Sting, Miles Davis)
Dave Livolsi – bass (John Scofield, Roberta Flack)
Highlights
Special EFX, the GRAMMY-nominated Contemporary Jazz Supergroup with 34 combined albums, 7 Billboard #1’s and decades of domestic and international touring to their credit! Available as both regular Special EFX (quartet/quintet) and Special EFX All-Stars, a customizable package featuring a musical mix of renowned musicians and vocalists, all with extensive credits to their names.
“Cool Summer”, the latest single from Special EFX featuring Chieli Minucci reached the #1 spot on Billboard, a total of 5 charts at #1 simultaneously!
Billboard Magazine’s top honors, winning best-song-of-the-year – Deep as the Night
#1 contemporary jazz songs – Dreams, Seduction, Cruise Control
#2 contemporary jazz songs – My Girl Sunday, Kickin It Hard
Performance Highlights:
Jazz In The Gardens – Miami, FL
Seabreeze Jazz Festival – FL
Spaghettini – CA
Yoshi’s – CA
Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant -MN
MIM – Musical Instrument Museum – Phoenix
Soiled Dove – Denver
Wiggins Waterfront Amphitheater – Camden, NJ
A Celebration of Black Music – Cincinnati
Catalina JazzTrax Festival – CA
City Winery
John Coltrane Jazz Festival – NC
Beacon Theater – NYC
Mallorca Jazz Festival – Spain
John Coltrane Jazz Festival – NC
Berks Jazz Festival – PA
Winter Park Jazz Festival – CO
Queen Mary Jazz Festival – Long Beach, CA
The Bottom Line – NYC
Best Buy Theater – NYC
Montreux Jazz Festival – Montreux, Switzerland
North Sea Jazz Festival – The Hague, Holland
Grande Parade du Jazz – Nice, France
Umbria Jazz Festival – Perugia, Italy
The Pit In – Tokyo, JAPAN
Java Jazz Festival – Jakarta, Indonesia
West Embankment Music Festival – Shanghai , China
Chieli Minucci
Guitarist, composer, producer, and arranger Chieli Minucci is longtime leader of the Grammy-nominated jazz-fusion group SPECIAL EFX featuring Chieli Minucci, a major force on the jazz and world music scene for over 40 years.
CIn the summer of 2024, “Cool Summer”, reached the #1 spot on Billboard, a total of 5 charts simultaneously!
Chieli has also recently released 3 brand new projects – “Return to Budapest With Love”, the archived, 1990 live concert recording of Special EFX from their early days on tour in Europe, solo project, and mainly acoustic “Someone’s Singing”, as well as his 40th anniversary Special EFX CD, “Twenty Twenty 2” (both ChieliMusic). Chieli & Special EFX’s previous release saw title track, “Deep as the Night”, win Billboard Magazine’s 2018 top honors, best-song-of-the-year.
Besides writing and performing his own music, Chieli shares his guitar brilliance throughout the entertainment world. He has recorded and performed with many top artists, such as Celine Dion, Lou Reed, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Lopez, Jewel, Marc Anthony, Michael Bolton, Rupert Holmes, Eartha Kitt, Eddie Fisher, Anastasia, as well as contemporary jazz artists Kirk Whalum, Maysa, Jeff Lorber, Norman Brown, Bernie Williams, Marion Meadows, Lao Tizer, Mindi Abair, Rick Braun, Gerald Veasley, Omar Hakim, and many others. Although renowned in the jazz and pop world, Chieli is also a gifted television and film composer. He has won 3 Emmy Awards and been nominated 10 times for his eclectic compositional work. His music can also be heard on the soundtracks of the films No Country for Old Men, Bowfinger, Legally Blonde, Panic, and others. Chieli’s original scoring work can be heard in live stage productions of Peter Pan, Dora the Explorer, Thomas the Tank Engine, and others.
Special EFXMusic.com
The official Chieli Minucci website
Additional biographical and discography information can be viewed at:
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/chieli-minucci-mn0000113409/credits
International Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1474265
Contact
WORLDWIDE BOOKINGS
Lao Tizer Music Inc.
lao@laotizer.com
+1 (818)590-3163
MANAGEMENT
Axis Artist Management/Nelly Neben
www.axismanagement.com
Nelly@axismanagement.com
(818) 998-2595
