Stefano Bollani

Jazz pianist Stefano Bollani was created in Milan, Italy, on Dec 5, 1972. He started playing piano as a kid to be able to accompany his performing, but soon focused solely over the instrument, searching for a conservatory in Florence when he was 11. There, he examined both jazz and pop music, and after graduating in 1993, added his key pad abilities to albums for most of Italy’s best pop superstars, including Laura Pausini, Irene Grandi, and Jovanotti. Whenever using the last mentioned in 1996 he fulfilled avant-garde jazz trumpeter Enrico Rava, who asked the youthful pianist to try out with him in Paris, a chance Bollani quickly recognized. He then begun to discharge even more jazz albums, initial along with his trio (finished by bassist Ares Tavolazzi and drummer Walter Paoli) but additionally as a single musician (like on 2003’s Småt Småt and 2006’s Piano Single) in addition to with various other trios (2002’s Fleurs Bleues drew in the abilities of bassist Scott Colley and drummer Clarence Penn, while 2005’s Gleda: Music from Scandinavia utilized his trio with bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund) and also a quintet (2006’s I Visionari). Bollani in addition has appeared on levels on the Umbria and Montreal Jazz Celebrations, among others, and it has performed with music artists like Gato Barbieri, Lee Konitz, Pat Metheny, Paolo Fresu, and Phil Woods. The pianist’s ECM debut being a head, Piano Single, was released in 2007. That same season he performed on Tati with drummer Paul Motian within a Rava-led trio, and in duet using the trumpeter on THE 3RD Guy. In 2008 Bollani shifted gears and led two large-group ensembles for Verve. The very first was entitled Carioca, as the second was basically called Big Music group! The following season, he as well as the trio shipped Stone within the Drinking water for ECM. This year 2010 Bollani made an appearance being a soloist with conductor Ricardo Chailly as well as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester within an all-Gershwin plan for Decca (Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Catfish Row; Concerto in F) released in European countries 2010 and internationally in 2011. Exactly the same season, Orvieto, his duet documenting with Chick Corea, made an appearance on ECM. The pianist released a slew of information in 2012 and 2013 in a variety of configurations, including two even more duet offerings: a self-titled record with Italian pop vocalist Irene Grandi and O Que Será, a series with Brazilian bandolim (a ten-string mandolin) participant Hamilton de Holanda. Ever ambitious, Bollani reconvened his trio and enlisted guitarist Costs Frisell and saxophonist Tag Turner as guests within a different plan of original materials arranged for different groupings from quintet to duo. Pleasure regardless of Everything was released in the past due summertime of 2014 on ECM.