DEVIL QUARTET Paolo Fresu (tpt, flh, eff) – Bebo Ferra (g) – Paolino Dalla Porta (cb) – Stefano Bagnoli (dr)

The philosophy of this new musical adventure of Paolo Fresu born at the end of 2003, after the fortunate success of the famous “Angel Quartet”. Joking around the name, “Devil” is born right in opposition with the old experience, but nothing can be compared with the “Angel” years. “Devil” was only the first logical answer to the question: “Which name?” In the same way of Angel, the new quartet is born with the peculiarity to be an “international combo”. Paolino Dalla Porta and Bebo Ferra are old musical friendship of Paolo, active and re-active in the close past of the Italian . Paolo met Morten Lund in Göteborg (Sweden) during the 2000 edition of the “Nordic Meeting”, in a group with the Nordic piano player Lars Jansson. Actually, Stefano Bagnoli is the new official drummer of the band. Devil recorded “Stanley Music!” for in 2007 and "Desertico" for the label of Paolo (Tǔk Music) in 2013. In 2017 the group will be in tour presenting a new work recorded again for Tǔk.

Paolo Fresu: Fresu is one of those musicians who come from time to time to remind us why jazz is so special and unique" (Buenos Aires Herald)

Winner of a wide array of awards, professor, and director of various Italian and international institutions, Paolo Fresu has performed around the world with the most important names of Afro-American music over the past 30 years. He has participated in over 350 recordings, some as a leader, others as a sideman, and still other projects mixing ethnic, jazz, world music, contemporary, and ancient music. Mr. Fresu is artistic director of the Berchidda Festival Time In Jazz and - as teacher - leaded for 25 years the Jazz Seminars in Nuoro (Sardinia). He is also involved in the production of numerous multimedia projects, cooperating with actors, dancers, painters, sculptors, and poets, as well as writing music for film, documentary, video, ballet, and theater pieces. Mr. Fresu lives between Paris, Bologna and Sardinia. His unique trumpet sound is recognized as one of the most distinctive in the contemporary jazz scene. In 2013 he was honored with the important honoris causa degree in Social Psychology at Università Bicocca of Milano, Italy.

Bebo Ferra: One of the most requested Italian guitarists. He worked with names like Paul Mc Candless, Billy Cobham, , Franco D'Andrea, , Mauro Negri, J.P Ceccarelli, Carol Welsman and Gianni Coscia. Since years, he’s recognized like one of the most creative composers of the “new wave” of the Italian jazz. He performed in most important international festival and recorded more than 20 records, including the last, fortunate, “Mari Pintau”, which is the same name of his last group with him as band-leader. He worked for some important cinema & theatre productions, too, recording with the worldwide famous “Scala Orchestra” directed by Carlo Boccadoro.

Paolino Dalla Porta: Paolino is one of the historical names of a very important generation of contrabass innovators in the Italian jazz scene. He recorded more than 80 productions, including a long serie with names like Kenny Wheeler, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Lester Bowie, , Oliver Lake, Dominique Pifarely, Aldo Romano and Enrico Rava. He's the actual bass player of Oregon. He was in tour in Europe, Usa, Australia and Polinesia, performing in the most important international festivals. Recently he wrote the music of the film-documentary "Magie d'Africa" (Achille Mauri), the soundtrack for the movie "La ballata di Domenica" (Wilma Labate) and formed a new own project in quintet.

Stefano Bagnoli:

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Jazz drummer, clinician, play with Paolo Fresu, Dado Moroni, Francesco Cafiso. Very well-know in Italy as master Jazz classic drumming exponent, Stefano "brushman" Bagnoli is a real specialist in the use of brushes. Since 1978 he has been carrying out a remarkable musical activity together with some of leading italian and foreign jazzmen. Thanks to his collaboration (1982-85) with the “G.Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milano” International collaboration: Clark Terry, Cedar Walton, Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, Buddy de Franco, Bob Wilber, Kenny Davern, Lee Konitz, Slide Hampton, Carl Fontana, Al Grey, Benny Bailey, Harry Sweet Edison, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Woode, Sam Most, Sir Roland Hanna, Don Friedman, Jimmy Withespoon, Mike Melillo, Irio De Paula, Chico Buarque, Chucho Valdes, Bob Mintzer, Sarah Jane Morris, George Garzone. Stefano Bagnoli endorsed ZILDJIAN TAMA AQUARIAN

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