MASSIMO FARAÒ
Genres: Hard Bop, Post Bop, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Third Stream, Latin Jazz, Jazz Related Soundtracks, Vocal Jazz, Swing, Soul Jazz • Italy

"The blackest of Italian pianists" was born May 16th, 1965,  in Genoa. He studied piano with Maestro Flavio Crivelli and began his career collaborating with musicians from the Genoa Area, especially with the bassist Piero Leveratto. In 1993 he was invited for the first time in the USA. He plays with Red Holloway and Albert "Tootie" Heath on a tour on the West Coast. In the same year he founded "We love Jazz" Workshop, now become one of the biggest events in Europe for jazz teaching. In 1994 he was hired by "Monad Records" in New York and back in the United States as pianoplayer and music director of Shawnn Monteiro's band, with Keter Betts and Bobby Durham. He has played in several european tours with the Nat Adderley Quintet, composed by Antonio Hart, Walter Booker and Jimmy Cobb. In 2001 he joined the Archie Shepp's "Just in read more...