Artist description I'm a versatile composer of film scores and jazz. I'm also an experienced acoustic and electric bass player and band leader. My new jazz quartet is a long term project focusing on bringing up from the dephts "life-music impressions" with the help of the jazz freedom and the italian melodic approach.

Music Style Jazz, Fusion, Ethnic-latin-mediterranean, Film Scores

Musical Influences Classical, Jazz, Mediterranea, world

Similar Artists Ray Brown, Holland, Gomez, Carter, Coltrane, Davis, Mingus, Rota, Piovani, Shorter, Metheny, Corea, Pastorius, Miller

Artist History Anthropologist, he plays basses sice more than 20 years. He traveled through Europe, West Africa, India, Mediterranean Countries and South America making documentaires. He studied music with John Patitucci, Lincol Goines, Nilson Matta, Hill Greene, Pablo Aslan He founded the fusion sextet Taranta Steps, and the Jazz sextet Ugetsu Collective He's now leading his new jazz quartet He wrote many film scores.

Instruments Double Bass, 6-string bass, fretless bass, fender jazz, alto bass

Albums Taranta Steps, Blending (w/Ugetsu), 'Round Eleven (trio), Live @ Between the Lines (trio), new jazz quartet 2002 CD in progress

Location New York, NY - USA

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