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Michele Montolli
italian jazz doublebassplayer resident in London
About Me
Michele Montolli (Verona, Italy , 1986) studied violin from the age of
seven switching later to electric bass. By the age of seventeen he
had taken up classical double bass in Verona’s Conservatory .
Following this he moved to Graz in Austria where he graduated in 2009
in Jazz Double Bass with the great Wayne Darling.
Joining the London Jazz scene since 2010, Michele has toured various
Jazz and World music festivals all over Europe, New York, Tokyo and
the Balkan Peninsula performing and recording with such great artists
as Knoel Scott and Marshall Allen (Sun Ra Arkestra), top U.K. Jazz
singer Julie Dexter, L.A. saxophonist and big band arranger Don Menza
, Lami Bajram Istrefi, afro-blues band “ Seeds of Creation” ,
sudanese acclaimed singer Amira Kheir , Afro- Venezuelan jazz quintet
“Pataruco”, and various recordings for the London National
Television School and the BBC, thus building an extensive music
vocabulary based on Afro American tradition fused with years of
classical training and experimental form-free music.