Ruggero Pazzaglia

I was born in Tolentino (MC) Italy the 10th of June 1966. I started beating pots and cartoon boxes at the age of 8. I played in little bands in Tolentino and then I moved to Milano in 1985. I've attended the Centro Professione Musica where I studied with the great Walter Calloni. I also studied with the great Enrico Lucchini and other teachers like Massimo Manzi, Ettore Fioravanti... After few cover band experience, in September of 1993 I moved to Los Angeles to study at the P.I.T. (Musician Institute). Here I studied with the great Ralph Humphrey, Efrain Toro, Joe Porcaro, Steve Houghton and many more. It's been the biggest experience in my life, wich included a terrible earth quake (6,8 Richter scale) in January 1994....... Scary!!! Then I came back in Italy and i started teaching Sight reading for drummers at C.P.M., at A.M.M. and started collaborations with some artists like Madre Blu, Claudio Lolli, Teo Teocoli, Antonello Monni etc. In 2003 I founded VISION-AREA wich is an experimental project of Electronic Jazz plus Visual improvvisations using a real VJ onstage (check it's www.myspace.com/visionarea for more details).mspmb allowScriptAccess="never" src="http://lads.myspace.com/slides/slideshow_random.swf?u=1 99631097&aid=1944007" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"