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Stefano Bollani (born December 5, 1972 in Milan ) is an Italian musician (piano, singing, composition ) who has mainly performed in the field of jazz and is also active as a writer and presenter .
He has worked with numerous jazz musicians from all over the world and recorded more than 15 albums with trumpeter Enrico Rava . In the classical field he has given concerts with various established symphony orchestras and well-known conductors. He has also played with many Italian pop-rock artists and has been a guest or presenter on numerous radio and TV shows. So far (2017) he has released 42 of his own albums (including 28 studio albums) and recorded numerous other records with other artists.
Live and act
The early years
Bollani grew up in Florence and received piano lessons from the age of 6. At the age of 15 he made his first appearances as a professional pianist. In 1993 he graduated from the Conservatory "Luigi Cherubini" in Florence with Antonio Caggiula. After a short interlude in Italian pop music and participation in the pop-rock band La Forma, he turned to jazz in the mid-1990s.
The 1990s
The meeting with Enrico Rava , with whom he has worked again and again since 1996, was of great importance to him . Together they have given numerous concerts worldwide and recorded more than 15 CDs (including Certi angoli segreti , 1998, Rava Plays Rava and Shades of Chet , 1999). He also began to play regularly with some of the greatest Italian jazz musicians: Paolo Fresu , Roberto Gatto and Enzo Pietropaoli .
In 1998 he published his first album Gnòsi delle fànfole on poems by Fosco Maraini together with the songwriter Massimo Altomare . In the same year he worked with TenderLee for Chet - the first of his numerous collaborations with the American saxophonist Lee Konitz - and won the “ Best Young Talent” award from the Italian jazz magazine Musica Jazz . In the following year he released two new CDs: Mambo italiano , recorded with the double bass player Ares Tavolazzi , one of his preferred partners, and L'orchestra del Titanic with the formation of the same name, which includes Bollani, Antonello Salis , Riccardo Onori, Raffaello Pareti and Walter Paoli belonged to. In addition, he can be heard together with soloists of the Orchestra della Toscana on the album Passatori by the French accordion player Richard Galliano and accompanied the singer Barbara Casini .
The 2000s
In the first years of the 21st century he worked with numerous artists from the jazz field, but also with Italian pop musicians, including Elio , Irene Grandi , Marco Parente, Peppe Servillo , Bobo Rondelli, Banda Osiris, Bandabardò, Massimo Ranieri . The collaboration with Enrico Rava was also continued. Together they published u. a. Montréal Diary / B (2001), Tati (2005, Grand Prix de l ' Académie du Jazz for the best jazz album of the year), The Third Man (2007) and New York Days (2009). Bollani also appeared on various other CDs and toured worldwide with musicians such as Gianni Basso , Gianluca Petrella , John Abercrombie , Jeff Ballard , Larry Grenadier , Paul Motian , Mark Turner , Phil Woods , Gato Barbieri and Pat Metheny . In 2003 there were two notable collaborations: with the Russian singer Sainkho Namtchylak ( Who Stole the Sky? ), And with Hector Zazou, who invited Bollani to appear on the album Strong Currents (other guest stars included Laurie Anderson , Jane Birkin and Ryūichi Sakamoto ).
Between 2002 and 2006, Bollani recorded four albums for the French label Bleu . He started the series with the album Les Fleures bleues (2002), which was inspired by the novel of the same name by Raymond Queneau and recorded with Scott Colley and Clarence Penn . In 2003 it was followed by Småt Småt , which was named one of the best albums of the year by the English magazine Mojo . In 2004 Concertone came out, Bollani's first album with a symphonic, the Orchestra della Toscana, conducted by Paolo Silvestri; the choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti wrote a piece for the Stuttgart Ballet about this music . In the same year Bollani received the New Star Award, the prize of the Japanese magazine Swing Journal , which was given for the first time to a non-American musician. In 2006 he completed the series with I visionari . He recorded the album with the band of the same name with Mirko Guerrini, Nico Gori , Ferruccio Spinetti and Cristiano Calcagnile, and with guest contributions by Mark Feldman , Paolo Fresu and his then wife Petra Magoni.
At the same time, the Japanese jazz label Venus Records released five albums by the “Stefano Bollani Trio”, a line-up with Ares Tavolazzi on double bass and Walter Paoli on drums: Black and Tan Fantasy (2002), Volare (2002), Falando de amor (2003) , Ma l'amore no (2005) and I'm in the Mood for Love (2007). At the same time, Bollani began an intensive collaboration with bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund . Together they formed the "Danish Trio". Within three years the record label Stunt Mi ritorni in mente (2003), Close to You (2004, with the Danish singer Katrine Madsen ) and Gleda: Songs from Scandinavia (2005); 2009 appeared on ECM Stone in the Water .
The release of piano solo in 2006 was of great importance : The magazine Musica Jazz named it the best album of the year and nominated Bollani as Italian artist of the year (an award he received in 2010). In 2007 Bollani ventured into the field of classical music. Together with the Filarmonica '900 of the Teatro Regio Turin under the direction of Jan Latham-Koenig, he recorded the Concert champêtre , Les Animaux modèles and the improvisations 13 and 15 by Francis Poulenc . A few months later BollaniCarioca appeared , which was created in collaboration with important Brazilian artists. In December 2007, Bollani played the piano in a favela in Rio de Janeiro , something that only Antônio Carlos Jobim had done before him . In the same year he won the Hans Koller Prize for the best European musician of the year and, according to the American jazz magazine All About Jazz , was one of the five most important musicians of the year alongside Dave Brubeck , Ornette Coleman , Charles Mingus and Sonny Rollins .
During this time he worked again with Italian pop musicians. But the most important collaboration came in 2009 when he toured various Italian cities with jazz pianist Chick Corea with a completely new duo program. This resulted in the live album Orvieto .
2010 until today
In 2010, Bollani was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music . On September 14th of the same year the CD Rhapsody in Blue - Concerto in F was released . On this album, which he recorded together with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under the direction of Riccardo Chailly , there are three works by George Gershwin : Rhapsody in Blue (in the version for piano and jazz band by Paul Whiteman ), Piano Concerto in F major for piano and orchestra and Rialto Ripples . The CD immediately landed at number 8 on the pop charts. It was the first time in Italy that a classical album was in the top ten. For the album, of which more than 70,000 copies were sold, Bollani received the platinum record.
In 2012 there was another collaboration between Bollani and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under Chailly. Together participated s ie the album Sounds of the 30s on some classics of the 1930s: the Piano Concerto in G major by Maurice Ravel , the Tango of Igor Stravinsky , the pimp ballad of Kurt Weill from the Threepenny Opera , Surabaya-Johnny Weill from the Comedy Happy ending and the suite from A Thousand and One Nights by Victor de Sabata .
Under the direction of Chailly, Bollani has also appeared in Paris with the Orchester de Paris and in Milan with the Filarmonica della Scala . From the concert in Milan on April 21, 2012, which was broadcast live in various cinemas in almost 20 countries, there is also a DVD recording ( Live at La Scala , 2013) with pieces by Gershwin ( Catfish Row , An American in Paris , Piano Concerto in F major, Rialto Ripples ), Scott Joplin ( Maple Leaf Rag ) and Joseph Kosma ( Autumn Leaves ).
In addition to his concert activities with various symphony orchestras under the direction of well-known conductors such as Daniel Harding , Kristjan Järvi , Zubin Mehta , Gianandrea Noseda and Antonio Pappano , Bollani has recorded numerous other CDs: Big Band! with the NDR Bigband , led by the Norwegian saxophonist Geir Lynse (2011, Echo Jazz Prize), Irene Grandi & Stefano Bollani (2012) and O que serà (2013, with Hamilton de Holanda ) and Sheik Yer Zappa (2014) Tribute to Frank Zappa . Also in 2014, Bollani resumed collaboration with the Danish trio and published Joy in Spite of Everything , on which Mark Turner and Bill Frisell also participated. The album was voted the best CD of the year by Musica Jazz . On September 26th, Bollani received an important international award: the JTI Trier Jazz Prize.
In 2015, Arrivano gli alieni was released , the first album on which Bollani can be heard as a songwriter. In 2016 the albums Live from Mars and the latest project Napoli Trip followed . Accompanied by Daniele Sepe, Nico Gori, Manu Katché and Jan Bang , as well as with guests such as Arve Henriksen , Audun Kleive and Hamilton de Holanda, Bollani paid tribute to Neapolitan music. In the same year he worked on the CD of Hamilton de Holanda Samba de chico and played in the piece Vai trabalhar vagabundo together with Chico Buarque . His latest album is Mediterraneano. Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic (2017).
Other Projects
Bollani has written and directed various Italian radio and television programs, including: B. Il Dottor Djembè ( Rai Radio 3 , 2006–2012), Sostiene Bollani ( Rai 3 , 2011 and 2013), L'importante è avere un piano ( Rai 1 , 2016).
For the theater he worked not only as a musical performer, but also as a composer. In the 2015/2016 season he brought u. a. the play La regina Dada, written and directed by him and Valentina Cenni, for the performance.
Bollani has published various books, including a. a novel ( La sindrome di Brontolo , 2006) and three texts on the music world: L'America di Renato Carosone (2004), Parliamo di musica (2013) and Il monello, il guru, l'alchimista e altre storie di musicisti (2015 ). .
There is also a Disney cartoon character called Paperefano Bolletta, which is based on Bollani and appeared for the first time in the Italian version of Mickey Mouse magazine ( Topolino ) on September 22, 2009 .
Prizes and awards
Prices
- 1998: Best young talent (jazz magazine Musica Jazz )
- 2003: Premio Carosone
- 2004: New Star Award (prize from the Japanese magazine Swing Journal for up-and-coming talent from abroad)
- 2006: Italian Musician of the Year ( Musica Jazz )
- 2006: Piano solo CD of the year ( Musica Jazz )
- 2007: Hans-Koller Prize
- 2007: Musician of the Year (American jazz magazine All About Jazz )
- 2009: Paul Acket Award ( North Sea Jazz Festival )
- 2010: Capri Global Artist Award
- 2010: Musician of the Year ( Musica Jazz )
- 2011: Premio "Fiorentini nel mondo"
- 2011: Los Angeles Excellence Award
- 2012: Premio "Milano per la musica"
- 2013: ECHO Jazz Prize for Big Band! (CD of the year in the "Big Band" category)
- 2014: JTI Trier Jazz Prize
- 2014: Joy in Spite of Everything CD of the year ( Musica Jazz )
Awards
- 2008: Silver banners of the Tuscany region
- 2010: Honorary Doctorate in Jazz Music ( Berklee College of Music )
- 2016: Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Honorary member of the Italian Collège de 'Pataphysique
Discography (selection)
- Gnòsi delle fanfole ( Sonica , 1998)
- L'orchestra del Titanic (Via Veneto Jazz, 1999)
- Mambo italiano ( Philology , 1999)
- The Macerata Concert (Philology, 2000)
- Abbassa la tua radio (Ermitage, 2000)
- Il cielo da quaggiù (Via Veneto Jazz, 2001)
- Black and Tan Fantasy (Venus, 2002)
- Les fleurs bleues ( Label Bleu , 2002)
- Volare (Venus, 2002)
- Falando de amor (Venus, 2003)
- Mi ritorni in mente (stunt, 2003)
- Småt Småt (Label Bleu, 2003)
- Concertone (Label Bleu, 2004)
- Ma l'amore no (Venus, 2004)
- Gleda (stunt, 2005)
- I visionari (Label Bleu, 2006, quintet)
- Piano solo ( ECM , 2006)
- Francis Poulenc: Les Animaux modèles; Concert champêtre pour piano and orchestra; Improvisations 13, 15 (Avie, 2007)
- I'm in the Mood for Love (Venus, 2007)
- BollaniCarioca ( Universal Music , 2008)
- Stone in the Water (ECM, 2009)
- Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F ( Decca , 2010)
- Big Band! ( Verve , 2011)
- Orvieto (ECM, 2011)
- Sounds of the '30s (Decca, 2012)
- Irene Grandi & Stefano Bollani (Carosello, 2012)
- O que serà (ECM, 2013, with Hamilton de Hollanda)
- Joy in Spite of Everything (ECM, 2014, with Bill Frisell and Mark Turner)
- Sheik Yer Zappa (Decca, 2014)
- Arrivano gli alieni (Decca, 2015)
- Live from Mars (Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso , 2016)
- Napoli Trip (Decca, 2016)
- Mediterraneo: Jazz at the Berlin Philharmonic ( ACT , 2017)
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- ↑ Charts IT Charts DE
- ↑ Biografia . In: Stefano Bollani Official website . ( stefanobollani.com [accessed September 14, 2017]).
- ^ Enrico Rava: Easy Living - JazzTimes . In: JazzTimes . ( jazztimes.com [accessed September 14, 2017]).
- ↑ sigmundgroid: Pat Metheny with E. Rava Quartet - Theme for Jessica - S. Anna Arresi 2001. January 8, 2010, accessed September 14, 2017 .
- ^ Bollani e Pieranunzi nella classifica di ... In: Stefano Bollani Official website . ( stefanobollani.com [accessed September 14, 2017]).
- ↑ Stuttgart Ballet - Communication & Marketing: Stuttgart Ballet - Ballet Evening: Body Language³. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Studio Contrast: JAZZ BRUGGE. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 15, 2017 ; accessed on September 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Petra Magoni discography. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Hanskollerpreis.at / EUROPEAN JAZZPRICE / 2003. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 17, 2016 ; accessed on September 14, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ All About Jazz: All About Jazz-New York Best of 2007. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
- ^ Nate Chinen: New Jazz Albums: 'Orvieto' and 'Modern Jazz' . In: The New York Times . September 16, 2011, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed September 14, 2017]).
- ^ Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez Awarded Honorary Doctor of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music. Retrieved September 14, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Una Scala jazz con il duo Bollani-Chailly . In: ilGiornale.it . ( ilgiornale.it [accessed September 14, 2017]).
- ↑ Two Filarmonica della Scala Musical Events: Saturday, April 21 . In: UnicreditGroup.eu . November 2, 2012 ( unicreditgroup.eu [accessed September 14, 2017]).
- ↑ NDR: ECHO turns Hamburg into a jazz city. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
- ^ John Fordham: Stefano Bollani: Joy in Spite CD review - warmly expressive jazz . In: The Guardian . September 4, 2014, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed September 14, 2017]).
- ↑ Musica - Top Jazz 2014, premiati Bollani e D'Andrea . ( ilsecoloxix.it [accessed September 14, 2017]).
- ↑ Christian Joericke, Marcus Stoelb: 16 BEFORE - news from Trier | »Trier Jazz Prize for Bollani. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Hamilton de Holanda lança disco em tributo ao samba ea Chico Buarque | Hamilton de Holanda blog. Retrieved September 14, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ ACT Music - In the spirit of jazz: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic VIII: Mediterraneo - CD. Retrieved October 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Stefano Bollani e Valentina Cenni protagonisti surreali e dadaisti . In: Corriere della Sera . ( corriere.it [accessed September 14, 2017]).
- ↑ INDUCKS Retrieved September 14, 2017 (English).
- ↑ MiTo Settembre Musica: Waiting for piano solo. Stefano Bollani interview. Accessed in 2015 .
- ^ Segretariato generale della Presidenza della Repubblica-Servizio sistemi informatici- reparto web: Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
- ^ Report in The New York Times
- ↑ Chart sources: Italy / Germany
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| SURNAME | Bollani, Stefano |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian jazz musician and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |