Singing is the unifying idea of different materials that are root cause of this group’s musical philosophy: original compositions and old-new italian songs; a jazz treatment using improvisation, timbre and pronunciation, items that filter every musical idea leading to the jazz idiom; the habit of musicians to look for each other, to find and to clash into each other; the ambition to go on the stage with a personal project showing our european background (say italian seems like say too much?)

Above all, outside and inside all, there is the meaning of chant, namely the deepest and hardest thing I ever tried to express in my musical life. 

Ettore Fioravanti

Ettore Fioravanti: drums, percussions (b.1958). Graduated in percussion, he played with a big part of  italian jazz scene (G.L.Trovesi, P.Fresu, E.Colombo, B.Tommaso, A.Salis, ecc.); he played also for K.Wheeler, D.Liebman, S.Swallow, S.Lacy, P.Favre, T.Oxley, E.Reijseger, G.Coleman. He teaches in Siena Jazz Clinics and in jazz courses of Academies of Music. He recorded about 40 CDs, 4 under his own name.

Tino Tracanna:  saxophones (b.1956). A graduate of the University of Bologna Arts Department (DAMS ), he has been member of F.D'Andrea bands and of the Fresu Quintet and Sextet (three records have been awarded "record-of-the-year" in the "Musica Jazz" annual critics poll). Musicians Tino Tracanna has played with: D. Liebman, S. Lacy, J. Kneeper, M. Helias, T. Stanko, G. Ferris, M.R. Abrams, M. P. De Vito, G. Trovesi, T. Ghiglioni, S. Battaglia. More than 50 CD in his personal list.

Stefano De Bonis: piano (b.1968). Active since 1977, he is founder of “Bassesfere” association, whose group he is one of the major voices. He recorded with “Doppio Specchio” tentette, E.Fioravanti Group, C.Zavallone Quartet, and he played with “Il Paese degli Specchi” Orchestra (with S.Swallow, C.Bley, S.Coleman, B.Tommaso). One of the new names of italian jazz piano.

Beppe Caruso:  trombone,tuba (b.1967). After long presence with “Nexus” group and bands leaded by G.Trovesi, he recorded in the last two years 2 CD under his name,  awaring very positive respondances: today he is working with G.Gaslini Orchestra and Italian Instabile Orchestra. A real master on his instruments.

Achille Succi: saxophones, clarinets (b.1971). Self-taught, he studied at Berklee School in Boston with B.Pierce and P.Wilson. He worked with D.Liebman Octet and with “Il Paese degli Specchi” Orchestra (like De Bonis). He took part in a tour in Israel for IASJ (International Association of Schools of Jazz). He is regularly playing with S.Guiducci Quartett and “Homage to a dream” group, and won a scholarship at Copenhagen Academy of Music. He teaches in Siena Clinics since 2000.

Giovanni Maier: bass  (b.1965). After obtaining a classical degree in 1988, he recorded and toured with a lot of italian and not-italian musicians (E.Rava, G.L.Trovesi, A.Salis, R.Galliano, H.Robertson, T.Berne ecc.). He works regularly with “Electric five”(lead by  E.Rava), I.I.Orchestra and Nexus, and with them he played in several festivals in France, Yugoslavia, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Finland, etc. He was voted in “Musica Jazz” magazine 1996 pool as one of the best new talents.

Belcanto (1996)
Florilegium (2001)
Più (2003)
Pierino, il lupo e.. (2006)


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