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Dan Moretti

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Dan Moretti is a saxophonist, composer/arranger, and professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Dan has 15 CDs released in the United States and internationally. The last eight have charted in the top 40 on the Jazz Week and CMJ charts. He has toured throughout the United States, Europe, Russia, and India. His influences, ranging from jazz and classical to funk and Latin-jazz, come from his experience performing and recording with artists across the spectrum of music such as Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Mike Stern, Dave Samuels, Dave Liebman, Marvin Stamm, and The Crusaders, just to name a few.
At Berklee College of Music in Boston, Dan enjoys teaching in the Contemporary Writing and Production Department and was awarded “The Excellence in Curriculum Award” in 2006 for the course he developed called “Groove Writing.” His publications include Producing and Mixing Contemporary Jazz (Berklee Press 2008), Arranging: Contemporary Styles (online course, Berkleemusic.com 2004), and Contemporary Jazz Play along CD (Jazz Player Magazine, April 1996).
In the last few years, Dan has been active in Europe playing with various artists like Nile Rogers and Chic, and performing his original music in Italy, Turkey, England, Belgium, Holland, France, and Switzerland. One of the highlights was performing at the 40th anniversary of The Montreux Jazz Festival tribute to Atlantic records with Nile Rodgers, backing up Robert Plant, Stevie Nicks, Chaka Khan, Kid Rock, George Duke, Solomon Burke, and Steve Winwood. Throughout the years Dan has received awards for music education and has presented clinics and seminars at various universities and conservatories in America and in Europe. In January of 2009, Dan was awarded the prestigious MacColl Johnson Fellowship for Jazz Composers, which took him to Italy to compose and record an original project with the Piccola La Viola Orchestra slated for release in 2011. Dan is an endorser of Shure microphones, Vandoren reeds and mouthpieces and Yamaha saxophones.