I was born in Pisa, Italy and began organizing event in 1975 (Frank Lowe - Don Cherry Quartet). From 1976 to 1982 co-organized the Pisa International Jazz Festival where Evan Parker's Improvisors Symposium was recorded and Anthony Braxton's Composition for two pianos was premiered. Translated Derek Bailey's book about improvisation and Leo Smith's Notes About Music. Organized concerts and festival during the 80s and 90s (Steve Lacy, Sonny Rollins, AMM, Company, La Nuova Onda New Italian Jazz Festival) and since 1997 the Italian Instabile Orchestra in Pisa. Director of the Archive at Siena Jazz, regular contributor to the Italian monthly Musica Jazz. Wrote also on: Avant, Improjazz, The Wire, Signal To Noise as well as liner notes for Splasc(h), Leo, FMP, Cuneiform, Emanem, Chronoscope among others.
Discographies published: Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Mario Schiano, Joelle Leandre.
Translator of the Italian edition of “The Making of Kind of Blue”.
Guest lecturer for New York University and William Paterson College; faculty member of Istanbul's Bilgi University.
Non jazz music interest: contemporary avant garde, ethnic music of the Mediterranean and Near East, Jewish music.
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My Desert Island Picks
- Louis Armstrong - The Hot 5 & 7 (JSP remastering)
- Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
- Paul Bley - Turning Point
- Anthony Braxton - Willisau (Quartet) 1991
- Brotherhood of Breath - Live in Willisau
- Don Cherry - Complete Blue Note (Mosaic)
- John Coltrane - The complete 1961 Live at Village Vanguard recordings
- Miles Davis with Gil Evans - Complete
- Dedication Orchestra - Spirits Rejoice
- Duke Ellington - The Far East Suite
- Duke Ellington - The Blanton-Webster Band
- Sylvia Hallett - White Fog
- Billie Holiday - The Complete Commodore
- Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk
- Evan Parker - Conic Sections
- Esther Phillips - From a whisper to a scream
- Sun Ra - Jazz in silhouette
- Cecil Taylor - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
- Okay Temiz - Dervish
- Dinah Washington - Swings
What I'm Listening To Now (As of 2004-01-21)
- Joe Henderson - The Standard Joe
- Bruno Tommaso - Amare Terre
- Frank Gratkowski - Spectral Reflections
- Anthony Braxton - For Two Pianos
Favorite Web Sites
- Siena Jazz - The older and most prestigious Italian jazz teaching institute, now also a najor center of research with its archive, the most extensoive of the country and one of Europe's resources.
- EFIP - A precious resource of information about Free European Improvised Music
- RootsWorld - News, comments, sounds and Cds about World Music
