Contemporary Italian Jazz
Currently, all Italian music conservatories have jazz departments, there are dozens of jazz festivals each year in Italy, the best-known of which is the Umbria Jazz Festival, and there are prominent publications such as the journal, Musica Jazz. In Italy, today, it is virtually impossible to find a medium-sized city without a jazz club.
Notable contemporary Italian jazz Musicians include Franco Cerri, Enrico Rava, Antonello Salis, Massimo Urbani, Paolo Fresu, Stefano Bollani, Antonio Farao, Dado Moroni, Aldo Romano, Stefano di Battista, Pino Presti, Enrico Intra, Tullio De Piscopo, Fabrizio Bosso, Luigi Grasso, bassists Giorgio Rosciglione, Riccardo Del Fra, Pippo Matino and Rosario Bonaccorso; Giovanni Falzone, Giovanni Mirabassi, Enrico Pieranunzi, Gianluigi Trovesi, and others members and collaborators of the Italian Instabile Orchestra.
Gianluca Petrella is internationally considered one of the best young jazz trombonists. Italy has many young and promising jazz musicians including Rosario Giuliani, Claudio Quartarone, Claudio Ottaviano, Marcello Giuliani, Mauro Gargano, Francesco Bearzatti, Michel Rosciglione, Massimo Biolcati and Flavio Boltro.
"Piano, Solo" (2007) is a biographical movie by Riccardo Milani based upon the life of Luca Flores, an Italian jazz piano player .
Michel Petrucciani, André Ceccarelli or Alfio Origlio are notable French musicians whose families come from Italy.
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