STEFANO BOLLANI

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At the age of six, wanting to become a singer, Stefano Bollani would accompany himself on the family keyboard. A few years later, he recorded a cassette of himself singing and playing, which he sent to his idol Renato Carosone, along with a letter explaining his dream. Carosone replied advising him to listen to a lot of blues and jazz, and so Bollani did. His first record was the second volume of the jazz encyclopaedia published by Fratelli Fabbri. At age 11, he enrolled at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Florence, where he received his diploma in piano in 1993. At age 15, he tread the boards professionally, playing mostly pop, at the same time studying under Luca Flores, Mauro Grossi, and Franco D'Andrea whose seminars he attended at Siena Jazz. In 1996, he met Enrico Rava at the Teatro Metastasio in Prato who immediately invited him to play in Paris with him: read more...

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STEFANO BOLLANI Quattroquinti album cover

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Quattroquinti
Post Bop 1997

STEFANO BOLLANI L'orchestra del Titanic album cover

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L'orchestra del Titanic
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1999

STEFANO BOLLANI Mambo italiano album cover

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Mambo italiano
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1999

STEFANO BOLLANI Abbassa la tua radio album cover

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Abbassa la tua radio
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2001

STEFANO BOLLANI Il cielo da quaggiu album cover

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Il cielo da quaggiu
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2001

STEFANO BOLLANI Les Fleures Bleues album cover

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Les Fleures Bleues
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2001

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Volare
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2002

STEFANO BOLLANI Black and Tan Fantasy album cover

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Black and Tan Fantasy
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2002

STEFANO BOLLANI Falando de amor album cover

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Falando de amor
Latin Jazz 2003

STEFANO BOLLANI Småt Småt (aka Piano Solo) album cover

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Småt Småt (aka Piano Solo)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2003

STEFANO BOLLANI Concertone (with Orchestra Della Toscana & Paolo Silvestri) album cover

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Concertone (with Orchestra Della Toscana & Paolo Silvestri)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2004

STEFANO BOLLANI Ma L'Amore No album cover

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Ma L'Amore No
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2004

STEFANO BOLLANI Gleda - Songs from Scandinavia album cover

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Gleda - Songs from Scandinavia
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2005

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I Visionari
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2006

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Piano Solo
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2006

STEFANO BOLLANI BollaniCarioca (aka Carioca) album cover

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BollaniCarioca (aka Carioca)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2007

STEFANO BOLLANI I'm In The Mood For Love album cover

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I'm In The Mood For Love
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2007

STEFANO BOLLANI Stefano Bollani, Massimo Altomare ‎: Gnosi delle Fanfole album cover

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Stefano Bollani, Massimo Altomare ‎: Gnosi delle Fanfole
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2007

STEFANO BOLLANI Stone in the Water album cover

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Stone in the Water
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2009

STEFANO BOLLANI Joy in Spite of Everything album cover

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Joy in Spite of Everything
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2014

STEFANO BOLLANI Arrivano gli alieni album cover

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Arrivano gli alieni
Post Bop 2015

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Que Bom
Latin Jazz 2018

STEFANO BOLLANI Piano Variations On Jesus Christ Superstar album cover

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Piano Variations On Jesus Christ Superstar
Third Stream 2020

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STEFANO BOLLANI The Macerata Concert (with Franco D'Andrea) album cover

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The Macerata Concert (with Franco D'Andrea)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2001

STEFANO BOLLANI Stefano Bollani album cover

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Stefano Bollani
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2006

STEFANO BOLLANI Stefano Bollani & Roberto Gatto : Gershwin & More...Live! album cover

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Stefano Bollani & Roberto Gatto : Gershwin & More...Live!
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2007

STEFANO BOLLANI Gente In Cerca Di Nuvole album cover

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Gente In Cerca Di Nuvole
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2008

STEFANO BOLLANI Omaggio alle Occasioni Perdute album cover

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Omaggio alle Occasioni Perdute
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2008

STEFANO BOLLANI Gershwin : Rhapsody In Blue, Piano Concerto In F album cover

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Gershwin : Rhapsody In Blue, Piano Concerto In F
Third Stream 2010

STEFANO BOLLANI Live in Hamburg album cover

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Live in Hamburg
Big Band 2011

STEFANO BOLLANI On Air (aka Il Dottor Djembe Live) album cover

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On Air (aka Il Dottor Djembe Live)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2011

STEFANO BOLLANI Sounds Of The 30s album cover

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Sounds Of The 30s
Third Stream 2012

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O que será
Latin Jazz 2013

STEFANO BOLLANI Sheik Yer Zappa album cover

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Sheik Yer Zappa
Fusion 2014

STEFANO BOLLANI Live From Mars album cover

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Live From Mars
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2016

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Napoli Trip
Post Bop 2016

STEFANO BOLLANI Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic VIII-Mediterraneo album cover

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Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic VIII-Mediterraneo
Third Stream 2017

STEFANO BOLLANI The Music Of Sasha Argov album cover

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The Music Of Sasha Argov
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2019

STEFANO BOLLANI El Chakracanta - Live In Buenos Aires album cover

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El Chakracanta - Live In Buenos Aires
Third Stream 2021

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STEFANO BOLLANI Mi Ritorni In Mente (with Jesper Bodilsen | Morten Lund) album cover

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Mi Ritorni In Mente (with Jesper Bodilsen | Morten Lund)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2004

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Autoscatto
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2010

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Carioca Live
Latin Jazz 2001

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Portrait in Blue
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2009

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ECM about "Piano Solo" (edit):

“I've rarely met an improvising musician with such a strong sense of structure and form.” Thus ECM producer Manfred Eicher, speaking of the pianist Stefano Bollani. Having made remarkable appearances on the albums of his former mentor Enrico Rava (“Easy Living”, “Tati”), Bollani now makes his ECM début as soloist. His outstanding technique, stylistic versatility and sharp wit have made the 34-year-old Italian highly successful in his own country. But his international prestige too is growing steadily with well-received tours and concert appearances on both sides of the Atlantic.
“Piano Solo”, however, marks a new stage of artistic maturity: 16 terse miniatures combine spontaneity with melodic flow, lightning virtuosity with refined melancholy, to form a grand and unbroken arch.
Here Bollani blends experiences from diverse musical milieus into a distinctive and homogenous personal voice, offering an almost encyclopedic array of styles and inflections.