Name Max Meazza | Role Singer | |
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Albums Stormy Noir, Charlie Parker Loves Me, West Coast Hotel Similar People Marc Jordan, Skip Battin, Bill LaBounty, John Martyn | ||
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Max Meazza (born Milan, Italy 19 May 1952) is a singer/songwriter and recording artist. He records for Polydor Records and Ariola Records, Appaloosa Records.
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Meazza is a former member of the country rock band PUEBLO, which was produced by La Bionda. He started with the band recording at Apple Studios in London in April 1974. He recorded a single in Germany for Ariola and went back to Milan in 1979.
He signed for Appaloosa Records recording three albums: Shaving The Car, Personal Exile with Skip Battin of the American band The Byrds and Better Late Than Never. During 1985 he signed for Solid Air Records, recording the album Nightime Call with guest Paolo Fresu.
He met his mother's relatives in San Josè California and returned to his hometown where he recorded Summer of 71 published by Solid Air records via I.R.D.
He rejoined Pueblo in 1999, recording the reunion CD The Big Thunder with his partner blues guitarist Claudio Bazzari. An EP called The Sleepless City came out in 2005, recorded with Luigi Bonafede and one year later the CD Highway 101.
During 2007 Meazza started to play live with he help of his friend guitarist Lucio Bardi in Francesco Degregori Band and the same year he recorded one of the most successful CD's West Coast Hotel in USA and Japan.
In 2009 he played live with the Australian guitar Rock/Blues musician Rob Tognoni, recording the album Race Against Destiny, featuring the cover of the song Down and Dirty written by Bad Company and Tognoni on guitar. Other guests included jazz guitarist Gigi Cifarelli on the song Solid Air written by John Martyn.
Another CD came out in 2013, entitled In Cold Blood under the name Max Meazza & Pueblo, featuring on vocals and keyboards Tony O'Malley, a member of English bands including Arrival and Kokomo, 10cc and Frank Collins, member of Arrival and Kokomo and background vocalist for Bob Dylan and Bryan Ferry.
Meazza expected to release a new CD Charlie Parker Loves Me with vocalist Marc Jordan who wrote the song. Mark Winkler wrote and did the vocals for "Forward Motion".
In December 2015 P-Vine Records in Japan published Charlie Parker Loves Me CD. In March 2016 it published a collection For The Weekend including Incognito featuring Mario Biondi and Chaka Khan and "Face in the crowd".