Tiziano Tononi

Tiziano Tononi (* 18th November 1956 in Milan ) is an Italian jazz - drummer and composer .

Live and act

Tononi first learned drums as an autodidact and played rock music before approaching avant-garde jazz . After he met Andrew Cyrille in 1978 , he studied drums and percussion with him in New York City . a. before he was taught by David Searcy at the Civica Scuola di Musica in his hometown . With the orchestra of La Scala he was involved in performances of classical music (for example by Luigi Nono ). In 1981 he took lessons from Bob Moses in New York . Tononi's since the early 1980s, long-standing member of the formation Nexus to Daniele Cavallanti , emerged with the recordings in which guest musicians such as Glenn Ferris , Herb Robertson and Dewey Redman participated; the two also formed the free jazz duo Udu Calls . With Searcy and Jonathan Scully he played in 1985 in the percussion trio Moon on the Water , which was partially expanded to include Stewart Copeland and recorded three albums. In 1989 he founded the Jazz Chromatic Ensemble with Cavallanti and Angiolo Tarocchi . He also works with his own formations, such as the Society of Freely Syncopated Organic Pulses , to which Cavallanti, Lauro Rossi , Renato Geremia and Guido Mazzon belong. 2000 appeared in Splasc (h) the Roland Kirk dedicated 3-CD edition We Did It, We Did It! . Tononi is a founding member of the Italian Unabile Orchestra, to whose repertoire he has contributed compositions.

Discographic notes

• They Cannot Know (Soul Note, 1986) with Dino Betti van der Noot
• Ketchup (Sensible, 1995) with Giovanni Maier
• Awake Nu: A Tribute to Don Cherry (1996)
• Infinity Train ( Musica Jazz , 1997), with Umberto Petrin , Renato Geremia , Sandro Satta
• We Did It, We Did It! (Rahsaan & The None) (Splasc (H), 2000), with Achille Succi , Gianluigi Trovesi , Herb Robertson
• Geometrics: Filmworks # 1 (Splasc (H), 2002)
• Peace Warriors: Ornette Coleman Revisited, Vol. 1 ( Black Saint , 2007)
• Rings of Fire (Long Song Artist, 2009), with Daniele Cavallanti
• Vertical Invaders (Black Saint, 2010) with William Parker , Emanuele Parrini

Web links

• Tiziano Tononi at Allmusic (English)
• Tiziano Tononi at Discogs (English)
• Tiziano Tononi & The Society Of Freely Syncopated Organic pulse at Discogs (English)