CURRICULUM VITAE In 1975 the Pisa Jazz Society promoted concerts of American bluesman Cooper Terry and Don Cherry - Frank Lowe Quartet). Later I was a charter member of CRIM (Center for Research about Improvised Music) in 1976.
CRIM promoted the Pisa Jazz Festival and many others ad hoc events from 1976 to 1983.
The focus was contemporary improvised music from Europe and USA.
CRIM coproduced the italian editions of the books by Leo Smith and Derek Bailey and several records (Evan Parker's Improvisors' Symposium on Incus, Paul Rutherford duo with Toni Rusconi, Pisa by Maarten Altena Quartet on Claxon, Detto Fra Di Noi by Alex von Schlippenbach trio on PoTorch.
After 1983 CRIM basically disbanded and I personally promoted events for the Town of Pisa, including La Nuova Onda, a Festival of contemporary italian jazz, and another edition of the Festival in the winter of 1992, planning concerts and events for other Festivals all over the country including for some time the Controindicazioni Festival in Rome.
After planning and promoting in December 1997 a major three days Festival dedicated to the Italian Instabile Orchestra, I produced a double Cd for Leo Records documenting the event; the Cd was critically acclaimed worldwide, and the collaboration with Instabile went on for ten editions of the festival until 2006.
My articles have been published on several magazines: the Italian musiche (about Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Klezmer Music, Sun Ra), Musica Jazz (about Billie Holiday, Lucky Thompson, Anthony Braxton, Kenny Wheeler, Lester Bowie, John Surman), Il Sismografo (SISMA newsletter), Nerosubianco (SISMA musicological review), French Improjazz, Canadian Coda, Austrian Jazz Live, English Avant, American Signal To Noise; in books like Mixtery - A Festschrift for Anthony Braxton edited by Graham Lock for Stride, the book dedicated to the Instabile Orchestra, the Black Music and Blues Encyclopedia (Arcana), the Italian Jazz Encyclopedia on CD-Rom (Editori Riuniti).
My liner notes appear on Cds by FMP, Maya, Leo, Chronoscope, Braxton House, Splasc(h), Nuscope, Soul Note. back