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Filippo Vignato

Born in Northern Italy in 1987 and raised in a musical family, he took his first trombone at the age of 10. Nowadays he performs intensively in Italy and Europe as a sight-forward sideman and as a leader of his own bands and he is considered as one of the most interesting Italian musicians of his generation. He is active in different fields of jazz and improvised music, embracing contemporary music, Avantgarde jazz and world music. From 2014 he leads an electric trio with Attila Gyarfas on drums and Yannick Lestra on fender Rhodes. His latest project is a quartet alongside Giovanni Guidi on piano, Mattia Magatelli on bass and Attila Gyarfas on drums, which recorded ‘Harvesting Minds’, released in September 2017 by Cam Jazz. He won the ‘Best New Talent’ award in the 2016 ‘Top Jazz’ critics pool promoted by the historic Italian jazz magazine ‘Musica Jazz’ , following the release of his debut album ‘Plastic Breath’ (Auand). Throughout his career he received several other awards: from the  as a best soloist at Barga Jazz 2011 to the Burghausen European Young Artists Jazz Award 2017. He has also got a sound academic education: he’s graduated summa cum laude at the Conservatoire National Superiéur de Danse et Musique de Paris and he studied also at the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam and in the italian conservatories of Ferrara and Rovigo. As a soloist, arranger and composer, he had the opportunity to work with several musicians and bands including: Giovanni Guidi Rebel Band, Ghost Horse, Francesco Diodati, Hank Roberts, Pipe Dream, Piero Bittolo Bon Bread & Fox, Zeno De Rossi Zenophilia, Giovanni Falzone Quintet, Enzo Favata & Tenores di Bitti, Vink Globokar Ensemble, Enzo Carniel Sextet, Vincent Le Quang Quintet, Rosa Brunello Y Los Fermentos, Ada Montellanico Quintet, Hank Roberts, Pasquale Mirra, Dan Kinzelman, Alfonso Santimone, Stephane e Lionel Belmondo, Dave Milligan, Onno Govaert, Reiner Baas. In March 2017  he was invited as ‘resident artist’ by the ‘Vicenza Jazz New Conversations’, one of main italian jazz festivals where he performed 3 concerts, presenting his trio, his quartet and the trombone solo performance ‘Solologue’. With his own projects or as a sideman he has appeared in the most relevant festivals in Italy: Novara Jazz, Correggio Jazz, Vicenza Jazz, Umbria Jazz Winter, Young Jazz Foligno, Sudtirol Jazz Festival Musiche Sulle Bocche, Time in Jazz, Fano Jazz, By The Sea, Fiemme Ski-jazz, Young Jazz Foligno, Festival di Nuova Musica di Macerata, Jazz Club Ferrara, Roma Casa Del Jazz, Cross- Roads Emilia Romagna, Festambiente Sud, Narni Black Festival, Isea Jazz, Pescara Jazz etc; and in Europe: Festival Jazz à la Villette (Paris), Jazz sous les Pommiers (Coutances), Edinburgh Jazz Festival (Scotland), Valijevo Jazz Fest (Serbija) , Bimhuis (Amsterdam). He has performed all over Europe, and in particular Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbija, Russia, The Netherlands and Scotland.

PBB's Bread & Fox: This Is Sour Music

by Neri Pollastri
June 15, 2020

L'avevamo visto dal vivo in uno degli ultimi concerti prima dello scoppio della pandemia e adesso possiamo ascoltarlo su CD: parliamo del quintetto Bread & Fox di Piero Bittolo Bon, giunto con questo This Is Sour Music (Trouble in the East Records) al secondo lavoro dopo Big Hell on Air, uscito nel 2016 per Auand.

Filippo Vignato/Hank Roberts: Ghost Dance

by Ian Patterson
February 12, 2020

Usually the watering hole comes after a gig, but there would have been enough wine to float a ship at this concert by cellist Hank Roberts and trombonist Filippo Vignato, held as it was in the Vigne di Zamò Winery in North-Eastern Italy. The interplay between the veteran American and the younger Italian on these nine ...

2019: Striking A Balance In Review, Part 1

by Henning Bolte
February 8, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 Every year the 'Best-of' game is underway again. But, “best of what?" is the immediate question. It's almost impossible for fishes of prey to hunt in a huge herring swarm, or for birds of prey to hunt in those huge budgerigar swarms. 'The best' is a choice from the ...

Piero Bittolo Bon Bread&Fox al Pinocchio di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
January 24, 2020

Piero Bittolo Bon Bread&Fox Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 21.12.2019 L'ultima data 2019 del jazz club fiorentino Pinocchio vedeva in scena il quintetto Bread&Fox di Piero Bittolo Bon, il quale—a tre anni da Big Hell on Air, uscito per Auand—presentava il nuovo album, pubblicato da Trouble in the East e anche questo ...

Hanksgiving: A Tribute to Hank Roberts, Part II

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 4, 2020

For the second part of our Hanksgiving tribute to Hank Roberts [click here for the first part] we focus on a number of other projects he is the leader of, including yet unreleased material of his current sextet. This segment also spotlights his work as a member of 858 Strings, the string section he shares with ...

This Is Sour Music

By Piero Bittolo Bon

Label: Trouble in the East Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Egosurfer’s Delight; Extreme Menstrual Monster from Mestre; Vulpecula; Spice Girls from Arrakis (mel b + mel c = melange); Tavolini.

Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra alla Sala Vanni di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
December 6, 2019

Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra A Jazz Supreme Sala Vanni Firenze 29.11.2019 Fresca dell'uscita del suo primo, omonimo disco (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione), si è esibita sul palcoscenico della Sala Vanni, per A Jazz Supreme, la Tower Jazz Composers Orchestra, formazione che prende il nome dal Torrione di ...

Ghost Horse: Trojan

by Neri Pollastri
November 11, 2019

Estensione di Hobby Horse—il trio di Dan Kinzelman, Joe Rehmer e Stefano Tamborrino, uno dei più interessanti gruppi italiani (anche se due musicisti su tre sono statunitensi)—Ghost Horse è un sestetto che della formazione d'origine mantiene lo spirito iconoclasta e di sperimentazione, ma anche i ritmi contemporanei e la pluralità stilistica. Accanto ai tre che ne ...

12 Points Festival 2019

by Henning Bolte
October 12, 2019

Bimhuis 12 Points Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands September 25-28, 2019 Jazz, as a diverse and heterogeneous field by nature, is represented at each 12 Points edition by young musicians and groups (age 35) with a strong artistic profile and solid and attractive performance capabilities. The festival represents in a nutshell what the ...