Bollani Grandi

Jazz pianist Stefano Bollani was born in Milan, Italy, on December 5, 1972. He began playing piano as a child in order to accompany his singing, but soon concentrated solely on the instrument, enrolling in a conservatory in Florence when he was 11. There, he studied both jazz and pop music, and after graduating in 1993, added his keyboard skills to albums for many of Italy's top pop stars, including Laura Pausini, Irene Grandi, and Jovanotti. When working with the latter in 1996 he met avant-garde jazz trumpeter Enrico Rava, who invited the young pianist to play with him in Paris, an opportunity Bollani quickly accepted.

La collana che porta dalla Casa del Jazz in edicola i grandi musicisti jazz del nostro Paese con una serie di dicotto live esclusivi, una panoramica sulla musica d'improvvisazione in Italia, sarà in tutte le edicole mercoledì 16 marzo con la seconda uscita "Live from Mars" di Stefano Bollani.

This series was created by Luciano Linzi, artistic director of Casa del Jazz of Rome, was produced in collaboration with publishing group "la Repubblica/L'espresso". The series was published for four consecutive years, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009. 41 CDs in all, sold over 1.000.000 copies. The recordings are all original live productions.