Emanuele Parrini

Appears on:

• MATTEO TUNDO
  Zero Brane
• TONY CATTANO
  Naca
• RENATO CORDOVANI-
  Cordonbleux at NOF
• CARLO CATTANO
  Rituals

He is recognized as one of the greatest contemporary representatives of his instrument in jazz.

In his thirty-year career he has worked and works both as a freelancer and as the leader of own groups collaborating with internationally renowned artists such as Tony Scott, Cecil Taylor, Amiri Baraka, John Tchicai, Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Butch Morris, Marc Ribot, Cameron Brown, Keith Tippet, Steve Swell, Hamid Drake, Rob Brown, Ernst Reijseger, Ab Baars, Philippe Catherine, Sadiq Bey, Joe Fonda, Ensemble Tartit, Louis Bacalov, Raoul Bjorkenheim, Jon Irabagon, Taylor Ho Bynum, Franco Cerri, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Enrico Rava, Tiziano Tononi, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Giovanni Maier, Simone Guiducci, Gianluigi Trovesi, Antonello Salis, Roberto Bellatalla, Stefano Bollani, Maurizio Giammarco, Roberto Gatto, Nanni Balestrini, Moni Ovadia, Virgilio Sieni and many others.

He is the violinist of Nexus, Dinamitri Jazz Folklore and the Italian Instabile Orchestra with which he wins the Top Jazz 2007 of the Italian magazine Musica Jazz as Group of the Year. He has recorded with the Orchestra of Dino Betti Van Der Noot the albums The Stuff Dreams Are Made On and Notes Are But Wind awarded in 2013 and 2015 as Album of the Year in the Top Jazz of the Italian magazine Musica Jazz. He is a member of the Raoul Bjorkenheim Quartet with which he recorded Solar Winds, dedicated to the music of John Coltrane and winner in 2020 of the Best Tribute Album for the magazine New York City Jazz Record. His discography has more than a hundred albums and he has published under his name Rotella Variations dedicated to the visual artist Mimmo Rotella, 1974 Io So – Damn if I know, with texts taken from the Scritti Corsari by P.P. Pasolini, Viaggio al Centro del Violino Vol.1, Are You Ready? – Viaggio al Centro del Violino Vol.2,The Blessed Prince, Digging – Reflections on Jazz and Blues, Other Interactions… On July 5th.

He has received numerous personal awards such as the Special Prize of the Jury Lago Maggiore Jazz 2000 and the JAZZIT AWARD – Violino Jazz Italia 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 from the Italian magazine Jazzit. It is mentioned in the list of musicians of the Dizionario del Jazz Italiano by Flavio Caprera – Universale Economica Feltrinelli and quoted in La Storia del Jazz by L. Onori, M. Franco and R. Brazzale edited by Hoepli. His name appears in the volume of Timo Hoyer: Anthony Braxton – Creative Music.