FRANCESCO DIODATI

Guitarist, composer and improviser, Francesco began his musical studies with Jazz. After his graduation in Statistic and Economy decided to dedicate his life to music: as a young guitar player he was composing original music for his own bands, traveling to New York and Paris, where he dig into Jazz while starting to be interested in many other genres and styles. Nowadays he is one of the main improvisers of his generation and a much in demand musician: he has collaborated with many Italian, European and American personalities such Gianluca Petrella, Antonello Salis, Jim Black, Bobby Previte, Francesco Bearzatti, Shane Endsley, Dave Binney, Fabrizio Bosso, Paolo Fresu, Nils Landgren just to name a few. He was also part for 6 years of the projects Myanmarmeetseurope supported by Goethe Institute which led him to Asia an Europe. In 2015 he obtained Top Jazz (The Italian Musica Jazz annual pool) for the album Wild Dance read more...