PIERO BITTOLO BON
Genres: Eclectic Fusion, 21st Century Modern, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Avant-Garde Jazz • Italy

Piero Bittolo Bon is one of Italian Jazz most acclaimed rising stars. A mostly self-taught player, he mainly plays alto but is also at ease on baritone, bass and alto clarinet and flute. Piero has also had a long-standing affair going on with the electric bass, which he played at the beginning of his musical journey in funk, reggae, and rock bands, before committing himself to wind intruments and improvised music. Passionate and vibrant, his music, densely composed or totally improvised, reverberates with echoes of the best of free jazz, fire music, torrid improvisations, sharp attacks and continuous inventions bar after bar. Member of the fresh and much regarded italian collective/record label El Gallo Rojo Records, he's currently leading his own sextet "Jümp The Shark", an ironic blend of compositon, freeform and hard groove, with Gerhard Gschloessl on tuba and trombone, Domenico Caliri on guitars, Pasquale Mirra on vibes, Danilo Gallo read more...