Fabrizio Bosso Tickets

Fabrizio Bosso started learning the trumpet at the age of five, graduating at fifteen from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Turin. Upon graduating he was awarded a scholarship to study at St. Mary’s College in Washington D. C. In 2000 Bosso released “Fast Flight”, his debut album as bandleader. 2002 saw the release of “Jazz For More”, the first of a series of recordings with the High Five Quintet, namely “Jazz Desire” in 2004, “Five For Five”, issued in 2008 on the prestigious label Blue Note, and “Split Kick” in 2010 on Blue Note Japan. “Handful of Soul”, Mario Biondi’s album released in 2006 on Schema Records is yet another of the High Five Quintet’s noteworthy recordings, which catapulted the Italian singer into worldwide fame.

Right from the start of his career, Bosso collaborated with illustrious musicians such as − to name but a few − Enrico Pieranunzi, Rosario Giuliani, Charlie Haden, Carla Bley, Dee Dee Bridgewater. In 2007 Bosso issued on Blue Note one of his most important albums, “You’ve Changed”, recorded with a jazz quartet and a 13-string orchestra, masterfully arranged and conducted by Paolo Silvestri, featuring renowned guests such as Stefano Di Battista, Bebo Ferra, Dianne Reeves and Sergio Cammariere. To the latter Bosso owes his first steps into the world of pop music and his first appearance at the Sanremo Festival in 2003.

Again on Blue Note, together with Javier Girotto, co-founder of the Latin Mood quintet, Bosso released “Sol!” in 2008, followed by “Vamos”, on Schema Records in 2012.

In 2010 Bosso released “Spiritual” with Alberto Marsico and Alessandro Minetti; the trio’s second album, Purple, was issued in 2013 on Verve/Universal, followed by the album “Spiritual Trio featuring Walter Ricci”, recorded live in Rome’s Casa del Jazz in 2016.

In 2011 he recorded, in London’s Air Studios, Enchantment − L’incantesimo Di Nino Rota with the London Symphony Orchestra and rhythm section members Claudio Filippini, Rosario Bonaccorso and Lorenzo Tucci. The music was arranged and conducted by Stefano Fonzi. 

A year later Bosso released “Face To Face” on Abeat Records with the accordionist Luciano Biondini, a project for which the duo later developed alternate versions; one of these versions, arranged for a show dedicated to Jack London, featured a string orchestra and a narrator, performed by the stage actor Silvio Castiglioni.

Bosso concurrently gave numerous concerts in several prestigious venues and festivals in Italy and abroad, namely in Japan, where he garnered great success, and where he regularly returns with his projects. 

In addition to his busy performing schedule on the international jazz scene, Bosso is a regular guest at the Sanremo Festival, performing with artists such as Sergio Cammariere, Simona Molinari, Raphael Gualazzi and Nina Zilli. Foremost conductors, namely Wayne Marshall and Maria Schneider, regularly invite Bosso to perform as solo trumpeter. Moreover, at the invitation of the lamented Ero Righi, artistic director of Modena’s ATER, Bosso has over the last ten years been a regular participant − together with Rita Marcotulli, Javier Girotto, Peppe Servillo, Cristina Donà, Furio Di Castri, Enzo Pietropaoli and other colleagues − in the popular tribute concerts to some of the great Italian singer-songwriters: Domenico Modugno, Adriano Celentano, Fabrizio De André, Lucio Battisti. 

In November 2014 Bosso and Julian Oliver Mazzariello released “Tandem”, their much-awaited duo album on Verve/Universal (with special guests Fiorella Mannoia and Fabio Concato), followed in the spring 2015 by “Duke”, a tribute to Duke Ellington (again on Verve/Universal) with Bosso’s newly formed quartet (Julian Oliver Mazzariello, Luca Alemanno and Nicola Angelucci) supported by Paolo Silvestri’s six-piece brass ensemble. The arrangements and direction were again entrusted to Paolo Silvestri’s proficiency.

In the wake of “Tandem” and their live project “Canzoni”, Bosso, Mazzariello and Concato recorded the album “Non Smetto Di Ascoltarti”, released on Warner Music in May 2016.

That same year Bosso toured extensively in Italy and abroad with the Bosso Quartet; consequently Warner Music released the double CD and LP State of the Art Live! in April 2017, a live recording of the quartet’s 2016 concerts in Rome, Tokyo and Verona.

At the 2017 Umbria Jazz edition Bosso presented his new project: a captivating tribute to Dizzy Gillespie, “The Champ”, arranged by Paolo Silvestri. Bosso’s quartet was supported by Paolo Silvestri and his 9-piece brass ensemble. 

In October 2017, Bosso and his quartet toured Korea for the first time, achieving great success.

Later that year Bosso accepted Warner Music’s invitation to record “Merry Christmas Baby”, the label’s Christmas album with his quartet (Mazzariello, Ferrazza and Angelucci), featuring special guests Karima and Walter Ricci.

In 2018, the Bosso Quartet toured Spain, China, Turkey and the USA, where it first performed at Washington’s prestigious DC Jazz Festival (no mean feat considering that very few Italian musicians have been invited to take part in the festival, and never with their own band); thanks to the collaboration of the Italian Embassy in Washington and the Italian Cultural Institutes in the US additional concerts were put on in Chicago, Greensboro, North Carolina (where the quartet gave a tornado relief concert to support the rebuilding of local elementary schools), and New York.

That same year Bosso embarked on new important collaborations. The first with his lifelong friend Rosario Giuliani, with whom he formed “Connections”, a new quartet with band members Alberto Gurrisi on the Hammond organ and Marco Valeri on the drums. Bosso’s second new collaboration has opened for both its protagonists a new horizon: in their combo “Not A What” Fabrizio Bosso and the young pianist Giovanni Guidi co-lead a quintet complemented by three rising stars of the New York jazz scene: saxophonist Aaron Burnett, bassist Dezron Douglas and drummer Joe Dyson.

Both bands are scheduled to record their first albums in studio in 2019.

Later in 2018, Bosso formed a third partnership with the trombonist, composer and arranger Mauro Ottolini, who expressly developed a project devoted to jazz at its origins: “Storyville Story”. A sextet which, in addition to its two leaders, counts among its members Glauco Benedetti on the sousaphone, Paolo Birro on the piano, Paolo Mappa on the drums and Vanessa Tagliabue Yorke’s vibrant voice in some of the songs.

The newly formed sextet gave its first performance in December 2018 at the Umbria Jazz Winter Festival, where, three days later, on New Year’s Eve, Bosso’s duo concert with Mazzariello was recorded live: the album, which also features two tracks recorded in studio, was released in June 2019 on Warner Music Italy.