Guitarist Brian Mitchell,originally from Kansas, went to school and played in various groups in the area, and after some time, moved to New York City to play and learn from the masters living there. Little did he know, soon after arriving, he would meet The Father of Free Jazz, Ornette Coleman, and become one of his only students. Over the course of the next 3 years, Ornette would be a teacher and mentor to Brian, inviting him to band rehearsals and spending many days and nights, the two of them, playing and talking about music. Brian was also performing regularly with Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, well know NYC conductor. Brian gained more valuable knowledge and confidence, many times asked to contribute ideas to Butch’s group and as a soloist. During this time Brian developed a sound through his teachings from Ornette and Butch and his own discoveries which combined a knowledge and respect for the past, and a realization that music must move forward, the definition of what “music†is must be expanded upon.
d i c o f o n e was born in deepsouth of Italy but when he was one his family moved to Ascoli P. in the middle of peninsula. Early he started teach himself to scream and play the father's piano with feet since the age of 3. At fourteen he took classical voice lessons and one year later started studying piano with Giovanni Allevi. In the same period, he began playing gigs with local bands in a wide variety of styles and settings. During his university years in Bologna, he began teching himself saxophones, bass clarinet, flutes and percussions, approching the local free improvisation scene and attending music studies with Shelley Hirsch, Phil Minton, Barre Philips, Edoardo Marraffa and Tristan Honsinger (with whom he still perform in duo and in his Eau Naturelle Octet). He also worked in composition and electroacustic research, studing computer music and sound design, and getting a consistent reputation as a sound engineer for the production of several recording sessions and cds. He performed as a multi-instrumentalist in elettroacustic solos, small chamber ensembles and multimedia theatre companies, as well as participated in various contemporary music festivals. In 2005 until the end of 2006 he has been selected as a resident artist at Fabrica Musica in Treviso where he continued his experimental music research, producing recordings, sound installations for visual (the last project was an installation for the photo exhibition "I See" presented in october '06 at Centre Pompidou in Paris), and performing with musicians from all over the world. In september 2006 he won the international selection of Red Bull Music Academy, performing for a couple of week in Melbourne, Australia. At the moment he still live and play in Bologna, collaborating on many music and mutidisciplinar projects.
