ELECTRIC BASSIST AND MUSIC TEACHER
PREMISE
I was born in Rome in June 1965. 
I grew up listening to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles & The Rolling Stones della Joker, the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor of Bach, Ella and Louis, Giorgio Gaber, Enzo Iannacci, Milly, Harry Belafonte, Cuban e Chilean music, the sonorous tales of the Fabbri publisher and many other records, singles and LPs that belonged to my parents.
After an intermediate time in which I loved the Italian songwriters (first of all Guccini), and then when I became a teenager, the rebelled phase, I discovered rock music, first with Jimi Hendrix and then I fell in love with Who.
As soon as I discovered the Black Sabbath, the Zep, the west coast and especially the prog (King Crimson, Genesis, etc.), the punk era exploded, the disco (unforgettable Le Freak) and of the new wave (Police and Clash raged). It was in that period, when I was around 14 years old, that I started to play the bass guitar, the instrument that I have never abandoned since then.
STUDIES
I studied at the Scuola Popolare of Music in Testaccio with Valerio Serangeli, at the State Academy of Music in Latina with Massimo Giorgi, private lessons with Gianfranco Gullotto and at the Berklee College of Music di Boston.
And, naturally, I continue to study music, always!
DIDACTIC ACTIVITY
I began to teach the electric bass, both music theory and laboratory in 1990, both private lessons as well as in various Roman schools, among which: Musical Center of Studies, Music Pianeta, Synthesia (for the theoretical classes of the school I wrote the “The Theoretical-Practical Handbook of Musical Education vol. 1 & II”), Musica in Corso, Scuola di Musica Anton Rubinstein, Plauto High School (together with the initiative of the municipal of Rome Romarock-Romapop).
Currently I am teaching in two music schools: Musicology and John Coltrane Music School.
In 2004 I created the website www.didatticadelbassoelettrico.it which quickly became a italian point of reference for those who love this instrument.
In 2005 I launched the first version of the Multimedia Electric Bass Course, a project that, with the aid of videos, photos, midi basis, mp3, etc., introducing, in a complete way, the study of music and the electric bass.
In 2013 I carried out the transposition of the electric bass of the Cello Suite No. 1 by J. S. Bach, a complete score with tablature, videos and mp3 available through a multimedia pdf.
Since 2013 I have coordinated also the Jazz-Fusion laboratory inside the Jazz Lab Alessandrino, directed by Mario Saccucci and Peppe D’Argenzio.
Since 2017, I have had the pleasure to present my Multimedia Electric Bass Course completely re-conceived and based on a completely new didactic.
MUSIC ACTIVITY
My very first group was a cover band of Jimi Hendrix, then we moved on to soul and funk (from Otis Redding to Prince). I remember a legendary concert during the occupation of the “Pantera” in the faculty of geology and the Sapienza University in Rome.
After a period of dance with the Flowers, with whom we played in all of the nightclubs in Testaccio, I entered in the world of reggae and of the African music. My first experience was with Elia (Elie Hassou who then became Rasely Hassou), singer of the Benin, who had formed the group Evolution Time. With the Evolution Time I recorded a CD (Bea Reggae), and participated in a tour in Italy and in Europe and published one of our songs –Dassi- on the compilation of the Warner Music Afronesque The Real Afro Groove & Club Music. The group was also a guest, many times, on television programmes.
After my experience with Nick Sy and the Tchila Deu (afro-reggae), I became a member of the multi-ethnical group of the Awalè formed by Ivorian, Madagascar and Capoverde musicians. With the Awalè, besides the usual concerts in Rome, I participated in television programmes and international festivals such as “Roma meets the world – villa Ada, 2000” and “Sol music – Palermo, 2000”.
Other important collaboration in the reggae/ethnic field, were with the Aborigine (with the Somalian singer Ali Hizam and the Italo-argentinian guitarist Joe Candido), with them I recorded, in 1997, the music cassette Jookso, and with the Kous Kous lead by Safi Harjane (Moroccan ethnic).
In the meantime, while I was learning from my African friends, I never stopped studying jazz music (but does this music also have an African origin or not?). In the world of jazz I have played with the Big Band of the Pio IX School, directed by Maurizio Cherubini, with the Fiurdo Trio of the guitarist Giuseppe Salerno, with the Roch Blues (at the boundaries between jazz, rock and blues), with the Pompeo Group, lead by the trombonist Giorgio Pompeo.
I have also collaborated with the Ivorian afro-jazz guitarist Laurent Digbeu, I especially remember participating, in May 2010, at the international festival “L’emoi du Jazz” of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast.
In 2015 I participated together with Alex Barberis in the Marco Brezza Khelé project, sounding live, in the context of the R-Esistenza Jazz Festival at the Portaportese Theatre, the movie Baraka with highly contaminated ethno jazz music.
It was also nice meeting with Gianna Chillà, a powerful vocalist, with a very particular jazz pop/rock/funk aspect.
In 2016 I collaborated, together with Andrea De Petris, with the Napoleoni-Rosati, an Italian couple of refined composers of jazz and latin songs.
Another one of my great passions is funk music in all of its variations, among the various projects I would like to mention the trio with Joe Candido and Randy Roberts and the quartet of funk instrumental music of the Blax.
I also have not missed out on the progressive rock: in the first half of the 1990s I played live with the Gates group collaborating in the recording of the CD L’incontro (1997).
Since the 1990s, I have also dealt with the world of Italian and international pop music, first with the Villani Dance and then with the Viro Band.
At the beginningof the new century I have been greatly impressed by the genius Johann Sebastian Bach, I then decided to transpose for two electric bass “The Two-Part Inventions”, lastly, in 2006 I published, together with Tiziano De Angelis, the CD of the duo Electric Sebastian Bass, with duets and solo pieces of Bach. With this ensemble we participated in the international festival “Qui Italia”, organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in Sofia-Bulgaria in June 2009.
Since the time of Within You Without You I have always loved the Indian culture and music, this is why I was happy when Jyoti de Gregorio, symbol of Osho Master, made a proposal to me to participate in some “nataraj”, to accompany live meditation and dance.
Currently all of these multi-formed experiences have converged into the Trio Plus. With the violinist Rodolfo Baroncini and various collaborators in percussions and drums (Mauro Cola, Raniero Bassano, Antonio Merola and Federico Duende) we propose a mix of jazz/fusion/progressive/funk/classic.
