Dorian’s Presents

Tommaso Moretti
Live at 9PM

Happy Hours 6-8pm Nightly
21+

$10 Cover after 8PM

Tommaso Moretti is a drummer and composer from Italy who relocated to Chicago in 2013. Upon arrival he has been actively involved in different local music scenes, frequently collaborating and releasing albums as a side musician with artists and bands such as: Ben Lamar Gay, Bottle Tree, Rob Frye, Eric Hines Pan Dulce, Chicago Samba and many others.

In 2017 he released, for the label Amalgam, his first album as a leader: SemoComeSemo. Since then, he has been playing his original music exploring different line-ups and instrumentations. In May 2022 he released the album Inside Out on BACE records. This “building blocks music project” stretches from a trio to a sextet and emphasizes the composer’s love for intimate melodies/harmonies and exposes his passion for Afro Latin and Brazilian rhythms. Inside Out is a studio album and a live performance that connects the dots between the intimate dimension of an inspiration and the aesthetic need to translate it into defined musical languages. It’s a quest to find the inner layer of humanity that allows a connection between the meaning of three words: Sentimento, Saudade, Soul.”

“Drummer Tommaso Moretti is from Italy but since relocating to Chicago in 2013 has become an itegral figure on the scene.”- Peter Margasak (DownBeat)

“It’s a remarkably pleasing album, with tunes (all Moretti‘s) that sound altogether fresh but with a feel that nicely throws back to classic Blue Note sides of the 1960s. Inside Out likely won’t top the charts, but it’d be a shame to let it pass by unheard.”—Kurt Gottschalk (Stereophile)

“ Inside Out is the most beautiful interweaving of the traditions of his homeland and his adopted home. But beyond that, it’s also a tapestry of styles across the decades, of avant-garde complexity and pop culture immediacy, and for all that, it’s an intimate personal statement too.”-Joe Muggs (Sound Of Life)

“An expressive, polyrhythmic intermingling of jazz and samba from the Italian-born, Chicago-based composer and his band.
Percussionist Tommaso Moretti takes listeners on a rhythmic trip around the world with a melange of jazz, samba, and canzone napoletana.”-(BandCamp New and Notable)