He was born in the small town of Castello di Annone, near Asti, in the north-western part of Italy, on January 22nd 1964. He has been working, both as a soloist as well as lead trumpet, with different kind of bands in pop and contemporary music, straight ahead and avant garde jazz playing with, among many others, Gianni Basso, Dusko Gojkovich, Benny Bailey, Tullio de Piscopo, Alvin Queen, Johnny Griffin, Toots Thielemans, Tiziano Tononi, Daniele Cavallanti, Giorgio Gaslini, Giorgio Occhipinti, Giovanni Maier, Carlo Actis Dato, Tony Scott, Claudio Roditi, Franco d’Andrea, Ray Charles, Slide Hampton, Roswell Rudd, Herb Robertson, Cecil Taylor, the Italian Instabile Orchestra…and performing in Italy,France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Macedonia, Portugal, Japan, Turkey, Canada and United States.
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