Musical Career
At the age of 16, Nocelli formed his first band, Destiny with his cousin Steve Francischetti, the drummer while Nocelli was lead vocalist and lead guitarist. Destiny toured all over the Tri-State area playing at colleges, high schools, dances, churches and private events performing rock covers from Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Doobie Brothers, The Beatles, The Stones, Thin Lizzy, Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, and Grateful Dead.
By the age of 17, Nocelli's musical interest shifted to Fusion, an instrumental mix of rock and jazz featuring rock rhythms and melodic jazz melody. His began to listen more to Fusion artists Chick Corea Al Di Meola and Larry Carlton. He began studying with a Jazz teacher, Tony Scally who taught him that he needed to learn straight Jazz first before beginning to understand Fusion. Nocelli co-formed a new group at this time for his new musical tastes. World of Difference featuring a diverse sound of Rock, Jazz, Pop and Funk music styles combined.
Continuing his Jazz education, Nocelli studied with Tal Farlow, a renowned Jazz guitarist. Advancing rapidly in his playing his new style, he focused solely on Jazz fusion for the next 12 years. He purchased a Heritage Jazz guitar and toured the New York City Jazz circuit with his trio Lucien Nocelli and The Jazz Experience.
Nocelli at this time wrote an advanced guitar method book, Modes In Motion: The Nocelli Guitar Method, and began to teach advanced guitar students at a prestigious music school Von Bartheld School for Music in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Soon after he opened his own music school in Forked River, New Jersey, The School for Musical Instruction which remained in business for 6 years.
Eager to create music equal in lyrical content and guitar, Nocelli formed Bebop Gypsies, who released one album before the group disbanded due to internal politics. He briefly joined his cousin's group at the time, Test Infection, an industrial metal band who released a few songs and toured live.
Throughout the years Nocelli toured off and on portraying John Lennon in the off Broadway production, Beatlemania. He is still currently touring internationally with Beatlemania.
In 2005,. Nocelli signed with Infinite Trend Productions, and released Message For Peace / Electric Train (CD Single), and a limited edition acoustic album which sold out immdiately, Acoustic Lullabys (2006). His major rock release Deal With It was released in 2008, followed up by a concept Jazz Fusion album EvoLucien released in (2011).
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