Loading details…
Artist
Dado Moroni
12+ albums
pianojazzAlldado moronijazz piano
about
Edgardo Dado Moroni, born in Genoa, Italy on October 20, 1962, was exposed to jazz music very early, thanks to his parents’ record collection and he started playing piano at age 4. Basically self taught, Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum and Erroll Garner were his very first influences and Dado tried to learn their solos by ear until, at age 11, he met local pianist Flavio Crivelli who gave him a more formal training, also introducing him to the music of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and more contemporary pianists such as Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner. From age 14 Dado started playing professionally all throughout Italy with some of the most important Italian players like Franco Cerri, Tullio De Piscopo, Luciano Milanese, Gianni Basso, Sergio Fanni and Massimo Urbani and at 17 he recorded his first album in trio with Tullio De Piscopo and American bassist Julius Farmer. In 1979 the encounter with Swiss trumpet star Franco Ambrosetti introduced Dado to the international jazz scene and since then he has performed and recorded with some of the most important musicians such as : Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Nicholas Payton, Roy Hargrove, Joe Magnarelli, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Randy Brecker, Freddie Hubbard, Fabrizio Bosso, Tom Harrell, Franco Ambrosetti, Terrell Stafford, Harry Edison, Enrico Rava, Jon Faddis, Bert Joris, Fabio Morgera, Woody Shaw, Paolo Fresu, Flavio Boltro, Marco Tambu
