Since at the tender age of six years I was trying to play... the drums. Every Christmas I asked for a new drums (toy), because it wore for just two weeks. 

 Later, I shifted my interest to the electric organ of my brother who was already playing.

Every Saturday afernoon I went to music school and after I met with a group of friends, all older than me, to play musich together.

When I started the secondary school I knew the percussionist Roberto Bovini and we formed a progessive group (the fabulous Joint) that gave us a lot of satisfactions.  

The basic group consisted of Maurizio Grimandi at bass and Giampiero Martirani at guitar, this latter is today a well-known performer of jazz standards in Django Reinhardt style.

During the liceo, I took part of "Tattini, Ferrari and group" with Roberto Bovini; and we played mustic in Medieval style (Angelo Branduardi was very popular at that time, in Italy).

In that period we performed several important concerts, we had some recording with RCA and attended some musical contents around Italy. At the end, we lost touch of each other.

In the following years, I played on my own or with friends in concerts, music contents or in recording sessions.

I moved in the piano-bar, I studied harmony and composition, I attended arrangement sessions held by Fio Zanotti; I wrote instrumental pieces (you can listen and download them free by clicking on We7 or here)… Well... a lot of things!

And now, again with a group, to play the music I love, to invent it. Glad to hear it coming out and grow up night after night, from ten to midnight .

The CD that will never get me tired:

Emerson Lake & Palmer: Pictures at an exibition

Genesis: Foxtrot

Deep Purple: Made in Japan

P.F.M.: Per un amico

Rick Wakeman: The six wives of Henry VIII

Tenmidnight: Tenmidnight

Mike Oldfield: Tubular bells

Pink Floyd: The dark side of the moon

Gavin Bryars: Vita nova

F. Chopin: The nocturnes (Rubinstein)

Miles Davis: Kind of blue

U2: Rattle and hum

Franco Morone: Melodies of memories

Jan Garbarek: Rites

Franco Battiato: Genesi

Frank Zappa & Inventions: The grand wazoo