Paolo Alderighi (Piano - ITALY)

Born in Milano in 1980, he graduated in piano at 19 years of age at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi and later graduated cum laude at Università Bocconi. He then decided to devote his professional life to jazz music. Awarded as best young talent at the Breda Jazz Festival. He was invited to play sessions in Japan several times. He recorded part of the soundtrack of Ermanno Olmi's documentary dedicated to the artist Jannis Kounellis.

The journalist and music critic Franco Fayenz defines his as the best emerging jazz pianoist. He was selected as best Brand New Jazz Act in the 2008 Italian Jazz Awards. He just recorded his third record, A Touch of Swing, fort the Jazz Connaisseur label. He teaches at Bocconi in the Degree of Management of Culture and the Arts.

He has collaborated with the following jazz musicians: John Allred, Carlo Bagnoli, Dan Barrett, Gianni Basso, Lillian Boutté, Gianni Cazzola, Franco Cerri, Evan Christopher, Colin Dawson, Bruno De Filippi, Tullio De Piscopo, Isla Eckinger, Giovanni Falzone, Alfredo Ferrario, Sandro Gibellini, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Dusko Goykovich, Eiji Hanaoka, Duke Heitger, Dick Hyman, Luciano Invernizzi, Tom Kirkpatrick, Eiji Kitamura, Ed Metz jr., Luciano Milanese, Gabriele Mirabassi, Lino Patruno, Ed Polcer, Valery Ponomarev, George Robert, Marcello Rosa, Randy Sandke, Antti Sarpila, Karin Schmidt, Paolo Tomelleri, Engelbert Wrobel.

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