ANDREA MASSARIA
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Post Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Hard Bop, 21st Century Modern • Italy

Italian guitar player and composer based in trieste, italia, born in trieste on 10/4/1965, he bagan studying classical guitar at the age of eleven under the guidance of masters guido percacci and pierluigi corona. After having performed an intense activity as a classical guitarist, since 1990 he has dedicated himself to jazz, to contemporary music, to experimentation and expecially to creative improvisation. He works in the field between experimental jazz, improvisation, and contemporary music drawing from a wide range of influences. He spans from free jazz to textural soundwork to noise to contemporary classical music, he works on exploring the natural rawness of his instrument and dives in to experimenting on what the guitar is capable of in sound and expression, with and without preparation. Among the many italian and american teachers he studyed whit, there are very different stylists like joe pass, kenny burrell, mike stern, bruce forman, stefano battaglia, read more...