Italian jazz musician (born 1961)
Paolo Fresu
Fresu in 2010
Born (1961-02-10 ) 10 February 1961 (age 63)
Berchidda , Sardinia, ItalyGenres
Jazz Occupation(s) Instrument(s) Labels Website
paolofresu .it
Musical artist
Paolo Fresu (
Sardinian : Pàulu ; born 10 February 1961)
[1] is an Italian
jazz trumpet and
flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music.
Career
Born in
Berchidda , Sardinia,
[2] he picked up the
trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band
Bernardo de Muro in his home town Berchidda.
[3] Fresu graduated from the
Conservatory of
Cagliari in 1984, in trumpet studies under Enzo Morandini, and attended the
University of Bologna School of music and
performing arts in
Bologna .
[4] He made his debut in 1985, with the release of his first album Ostinato.
[5]
[6]
He has taught at the
Siena Jazz National
Seminars , as well as jazz university courses in
Terni , and is the director of Nuoro Jazz Seminars in
Nuoro , Italy.
[7]
Fresu composes music for theatre, poem, dance, radio, television, and film.
In 2007, he recorded and toured with
Carla Bley 's quartet, the Lost Chords.
In 2011, he released Mistico Mediterraneo , which featured him, Daniele di Bonaventura and five other members playing
bandoneons in
A Filetta style.
[8]
In 2012, his quintet performed at the
Sirifort Auditorium , New Delhi, India, to celebrate 10 years of the Italian culture center there.
[9]
In 2015, Fresu was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from
Berklee College of Music .
[10]
Partial discography
The complete official discography of Paolo Fresu can be found on his official website (more than 600 tracks).
[11]
The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu in
Monaco . From left to right:
Carla Bley , Paolo Fresu and
Andy Sheppard
1987 Mamut: Music for a Mime (Splasc(H), 1987)
1989 Opale with Francesco Tattara, Furio Di Castri (Clac, 1989)
1991 Umiliani Jazz Family with
Piero Umiliani (Liuto Edizioni Musicali, 1991)
1993 Contos with Furio Di Castri,
John Taylor (EGEA, 1993)
1995 Palatino with
Aldo Romano ,
Michel Benita ,
Glenn Ferris (
Label Bleu , 1995)
1995 Mythscapes with Furio Di Castri,
Jon Balke ,
Pierre Favre (
Soul Note , 1995)
1996 The Hands with Flavio Piras, Furio Di Castri, Antonello Salis (Amiata, 1996)
1997 Wanderlust (
RCA Victor , 1997)
1998 Palatino Tempo with Aldo Romano, Michel Benita, Glenn Ferris (Label Bleu, 1998)
1998 Condaghes with Jacques Pellen,
Erik Marchand (Silex)
1998 Things Left Behind with Iridescente Ensemble (Symphonia)
1999 Metamorfosi (RCA Victor)
1999 Shades of Chet with
Enrico Rava (Via Veneto Jazz)
2001 Porgy and Bess with Orchestra Jazz Della Sardegna (Il Manifesto)
2001 Heartland with
David Linx ,
Diederik Wissels (
EmArcy )
2002 Kind of Porgy & Bess (RCA Victor)
2003 Scores (
CAM Jazz )
2006 Homescape with
Nguyen Le ,
Dhafer Youssef (
ACT )
2007 Mare Nostrum with
Richard Galliano ,
Jan Lundgren (ACT)
2008 Le Fresiadi (Time in Jazz)
2009 Jazzitaliano Live 2009 (Casa del Jazz)
2010 Chiaoscuro with
Ralph Towner (ECM)
2011 Alma with
Omar Sosa (Tuk)
2012 Birth of the Cool (Musica Jazz)
2013 Vinodentro (Tuk)
2014 Brass Bang! with
Steven Bernstein ,
Gianluca Petrella ,
Marcus Rojas (Tuk)
2015 The Whistleblowers with David Linx, Diederik Wissels (Tuk)
2016 Mare Nostrum II with Richard Galliano, Jan Lundgren (ACT)
2016 Eros with Omar Sosa,
Jaques Morelenbaum ,
Natacha Atlas (Tuk)
2016 Around Tuk (Casa del Jazz)
2017 Danse Memoire, Danse (Tuk)
2018 Tempo di Chet , with Dino Rubino and Marco Bardoscia (Tuk)
2019 Mare Nostrum III with Richard Galliano, Jan Lundgren (ACT)
2024 Romance of the Moon , with
Yelena Eckemoff (L&H Production)
As leader
Paolo Fresu 5et
P.A.R.T.E. , (EMI, 2005)
Incantamento , (EMI, 2006)
Thinking , (EMI, 2006)
Kosmopolites , (EMI, 2005)
Rosso, Verde, Giallo E Blu , (EMI, 2007)
Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet
Stanley Music , (EMI, 2007)
Desertico , (Tuk Music, 2013)
Carpe Diem , (Tuk Music, 2018)
Paolo Fresu
P60LO FR3SU (Tuk Music, 2021)
As sideman
With
Joe Barbieri
Origami , (Microcosmo Dischi, 2017)
With
Carla Bley
With Daniele di Bonaventura
With
Uri Caine
Things (Blue Note, 2006)
think. (Blue Note, 2009)
Two Minuettos (Tǔk Music, 2016)
With
Lars Danielsson
With
Peter Gabriel
i/o (Real World, 2023, appears on Live And Let Live)
With
Aldo Romano
With
Ralph Towner
See also
References
External links
1947–1960 1961–1980 1981–2000 2001–present
International National Artists Other
Paolo Fresu. "Tempo e relazione" in Brooklyn Rail (September 2021), as part of section "How Long Is Now?" guest edited by Francesca Pietropaolo:
https://brooklynrail.org/2021/09/criticspage