Pietro Ciancaglini (Double bass) Born in Rome in 1975, he graduated at Conservatory school "L. Refice" in Frosinone. He began his jazz professional activity in 1993 playing first with Ettore Fioravanti quartet and Stefano D’Anna trio. In 1994 after attending Siena jazz workshop he started to collaborate with Pietro Tonolo performing several concerts and recording sessions. In the same period he played also with Mario Raja big band, Roberto Gatto, Maurizio Giammarco quartet. Remarkable are the collaborations with flautist Nicola Stilo and pianist Rita Marcotulli quartet and "Trouffaut project" playing in the most important festivals in Italy and in Holland. In 1995 he started a stable collaboration with alto saxophone player Rosario Giuliani quintet and quartet also recording CD "Luggage" for the french label "Dreyfus jazz". With this group he made a lot of concerts until 2001, and then he started activity with High Five quintet (Daniele Scannapieco, Fabrizio Bosso,Luca Mannutza, Lorenzo Tucci), one of the most importan italian group. They did 2 CD having good appreciations from the critic. In 1998 he was a member of Teatro Eliseo big band directed by Tommaso Vittorini. In 2001 he recorded with pianist Salvatore Bonafede the album "Ortodoxa" that won the referendum for "musica jazz" for best italian album of the year. In 2002 he released his first CD as band leader "Italian jazz graffiti". Remarkable is the collaboration who started in 2000 with the DJ, producer and musician Nicola Conte doing a lot of recordings distribuited in all the world and touring with his group in the most important festivals. With him also he recorded album "Other directions" for the american label "Blue note". Like side-man he played also with Franco D’Andrea, Enrico Pieranunzi, Enrico Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi, Paolo Fresu, Stefano Di Battista, Flavio Boltro, Fabio Morgera, Piero Odorici, Bob Bonisolo, Emanuele Cisi, Francesco Bearzatti, Mauro Beggio, Sandro Satta, Javier Girotto, Antonello Salis, Fabrizio Sferra, Gianluca Petrella, Roberto Rossi, Luigi Bonafede, Paolo Birro, Andrea Pozza, Danilo Rea, Stefano Bollani, Barbara Casini, Marcello Rosa, Amedeo Tommasi, Dino Piana, Armando Trovajoli, Steve Grossmann, George Garzone, Benny Maupin, Jack Walrath, George Cables, Joe Chambers, Eliot Zigmund, Bill Smith, Bob Wilber, Lee Konitz, Kenny Wheeler, Gil Goldstein, Toninho Horta, Claudio Roditi, Michelle Hendrix, Joanne Brackeen, Mark Turner. He took part in several festivals like Umbria jazz, Verona jazz, Veneto jazz, Fano jazz, Atina jazz, Bergamo jazz, Clusone jazz, Crossroads jazz festival, Pulsano jazz, Siena jazz, Paris jazz festival, Montreaux jazz festival, North sea jazz festival, Blue Note festival of Gent. He played also in Portugal, Belgium, Holland, England, Malta, French, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Serbia, Japan and Russia. He’s actually playing with High Five quintet, Nicola Conte, Ada Montellanico, LTC trio, Lorenzo Tucci. He teaches double bass at Testaccio S.P.M. in Rome. Selected discography Bassi-Giuliani quintet "L’incontro" (La coccinella) 1996 Pietro Tonolo "Disguise" (Splasch) 1997 Stefano D’Anna "Carousel" (Splasch) 1998 Emanuele Basentini "Just in time" (Philology) 1998 Lee Konitz "Tender Lee for Chet" (Philology) 1999 Pietro Condorelli "Quasimodo" (Red records) 2000 Tonolo/Bonafede/Ciancaglini/Sotgiu "Glass waters" (Splasch) 2000 Salvatore Bonafede "Ortodoxa" (Red records) 2001 Rosario Giuliani "Luggage" (Dreyfus jazz) 2001 Ada Montellanico "Suoni modulanti" (Abeat records) 2002 Tonolo/Goldstein/Birro/ Ciancaglini "Farfalle" (Egea) 2002 High Five quintet "Jazz for more?" (Via Veneto jazz) 2002 Rosalia De Souza "Garota moderna" (Schema records) 2002 Pietro Ciancaglini "Italian jazz graffiti" (Isma records) 2002 Andrea Beneventano trio "Trinacria" (Alfa music) 2003 Nicola Stilo "Vira Vida" (Via Veneto jazz) 2003 Stefano D’Anna trio "Runa" (Splasch) 2004 High Five quintet "Jazz desire" (Via Veneto) 2004 Nicola Conte "Other directions" (Blue Note) 2004 Salvatore Bonafade "Paradoxa" (Red records) 2005 LTC plus Mark Turner "Hikmet" (Via Veneto jazz) 2005 Amsterdam-Roma jazz quartet "The long journey" (Munich records) 2005 Guido Di Leone quartet "Walkin’ ahead" (yvp music) 2006 Cristiana Polegri "Bindi in jazz" (Via Veneto jazz) 2006 Mario Biondi and High Five quintet "Handful of soul" (Schema records) 2006
