Tomasso Moretti's Inside Out Quartet

BlueStem Jazz.

media release: 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. He performed worldwide in venues and festivals such as: North Sea Jazz Fest (Rotterdam), Sziget (Budapest), Sesc Pompeia (San Paolo), Chicago Jazz Festival, Barbican Center (London), Winter Jazz Fest (New York)  and many more.

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. 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 has become an integral figure on the scene."- Peter Margasak (DownBeat) 

Jake Wark is a saxophonist and composer. He has been active in Chicago’s vibrant creative music community since 2014, when he relocated from upstate New York. Jake has released two albums as a leader: 2020’s Scrawl, featuring Angel Bat Dawid, Jakob Heinemann, and Adam Shead, and 2017’s Tremor, with Drew Gress and Phil Haynes. He can be heard in numerous groups as a sideman and collaborator, including Javier Red’s Imagery Converter, whose first release, Ephemeral Certainties, was included in an NPR Jazz Critics’ Poll list of the best debuts of 2019. Jake has appeared at the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Constellation, the Green Mill, Elastic Arts.

Ben Dillinger is an upright and electric bassist, composer, and educator who has been working professionally in Chicago for the past 10 years. His formal training is in jazz performance and composition, but has also performed in many different musical settings including classical, musical theater, rock, and popular music. As an educator he has taught at Roosevelt University, Morton College, and The Chicago High School of Performing Arts (ChiArts).

Edinho Gerber possesses a rich musical vocabulary developed in the two countries where he was raised: the United States and Brazil. Navigating effortlessly between the genres of Choro, Jazz, Samba, and Blues, he is always in search of the intersection points within his dual cultural identity. He has performed in prestigious festivals and concerts throughout the United States, UK, Russia, Japan and, alongside Brazilian guitar legend, Rogério Souza, tours regularly as Duo Violão Brasil.