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Paolo starts studying the trumpet at the age of eleven with his
hometown Local Band.
After different musical experiences, in 1980 he discovers Jazz and
starts playing professionally in 1982 recording for RAI under the
guide of M° Bruno Tommaso and attending Seminaries at Siena Jazz.
In 1984 he graduates in trumpet at Cagliari Conservatory and in
the same year he wins "RadioUno jazz", "Musica jazz" e
"RadioCorriere TV" as Best Italian Jazz Talent.
In 1990 he wins "Top jazz" price with the review ‘Musica Jazz’ as
best Italian musician, best group (paolo Fresu Quinet) and best
record (Arrigo Polillo price for "Live in Montpellier").
In 1996 he wins the best European musician with one of his
compositions for 'Acadйmie du jazz' of Paris and the prestigious
"Django d’Or" as best European Jazz Musician and in 2000 he is
nominated Best Internationa Musician.
These are only the first of a series of awards that continue up to
present.
Professor and responsible of various national and international
institutions, Paolo has performed in each continent with the most
important names of afro-american music of the last 30 years:
Franco D'Andrea, Giovanni Tommaso, Bruno Tommaso, Tiziana
Ghiglioni, Enrico Rava,
Antonello Salis, Enrico Pieranunzi, Giorgio Gaslini, Gianluigi
Trovesi, Aldo Romano, Glen Ferris,
John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen,
Gerry Mulligan, David Liebman, Dave Holland, Richard Beirach, John
Zorn, John Abercrombie, Helen Merril, Ralph Towner,
Richard Galliano, Michel Portal, Trilok Gurtu, Jeanne Lee, Gunther
Schьller, Paul McCandless, Jim Hall,Lew Soloff, Uri Caine, Gil
Evans Orchestra, Toots Thielemans, Omar Sosa, Carla Bley, Steve
Swallow, Andy Sheppard, Nguyen Le ecc.
He has recorded nearly three hundred records some in his name,
others with Michael Nyman, Evan Parker, Farafina, Ornella Vanoni,
Alice, Gunther Schьller, Negramaro, Stadio, ecc., and others
cooperating in "mixed" projects…Ethnic Jazz Music, World Music,
Contemporary Music, Ancient Music, ecc.
He is artistic director of Berchidda Festival "Time in jazz", and
Jazz Seminaries in Nuoro.
He has often been guest in orchestras such as 'Grande Orchestra
Italiana', French National Jazz Orchestra, NDR of Hamburg German
Radio and the Italian Instabile Orchestra.
He has also coordinated many multimedia projects, cooperating with
actors, dancers, painters, sculptures, poets, ecc., and has
written musics for films, documentaries, viedeos, ballets and
theatre pieces.
At present the is in involved in numerous projects, which take him
all over the world for more than 200 concerts a year.
Lots of his productions have been awarded in Italy and abroad.
He lives between Paris, Bologna and Sardegna and directs the
Cultural Association Time in Jazz in Berchidda, with which he has
organized the prestigious festival since 1998.
Vittorio Albani