CLAUDIO FASOLI
Genres: Post Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, 21st Century Modern, Avant-Garde Jazz • Italy

Claudio Fasoli is a jazz composer, saxophone player, educator and photographer.First professional experiences: Perigeo QuintetBorn in Venice, he now lives in Milan, Italy. After a long apprenticeship and many sessions with various prominent musicians, he achieved popularity in the '70s playing with PERIGEO QUINTET, among whose other artists were Giovanni Tommaso and  Franco D’Andrea. This group performed throughout Europe and also overseas, and with it Fasoli gained considerable experience both as soloist and composer.Trios and quartets with great names of jazzWhen Perigeo disbanded in 1978, he became leader of his own groups, putting together mostly  trios or quartets. Some of the great names of the european and international jazz scene have played in these groups. For example: Henri Texier, Lee Konitz, Jean-François Jenny Clark, Aldo Romano, Kenny Wheeler, Manfred Schoof,  Palle Danielsson, Bobo Stenson,  Tony Oxley, Bill Elgart, Mick Goodrick etc. He introduced his own compositions read more...