Franco D'Andrea is an Italian pianist who plays mostly jazz and rock. He developed his style in the 1960s and won several awards in his home country. He has worked with Ernst Reijseger

Ernst Reijseger

ERNST REIJSEGER Cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger plays the cello from the age of seven and began as a performing cellist and improviser in 1969. From that time on he developed his own musical vocabulary...

, Slide Hampton

Slide Hampton

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, Frank Rosolino

Frank Rosolino

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, Conte Candoli

Conte Candoli

Secondo "Conte" Candoli was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show. He played with Gerry Mulligan, and on Frank Sinatra's TV specials...

, Max Roach

Max Roach

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, Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz

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, Johnny Griffin

Johnny Griffin

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, and also with numerous Italian musicians.

His career began with the Italian ensemble Perigeo

Perigeo

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In 2011 he received the Honorary Award at the Italian Jazz Awards

Italian Jazz Awards

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 - Luca Flores.

Discography

• No Idea of Time (Red, 1983) with Mark Helias
  Mark Helias
  Mark Helias is an American jazz double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.He did not begin playing the double bass until the age of 20, graduating from Yale University's School of Music with a Masters degree in 1976. He has also studied at Rutgers University...
  
  , Barry Altschul
  Barry Altschul
  Barry Altschul is a free jazz drummer who gained fame in the late 1960s with the pianists Paul Bley and Chick Corea.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chromatic Phrygian (YVP Records, 1989)
• Airegin (Red, 1991)
• Jobim (Philology, 1997)
• Solo 5 - Duke (Philology, 2001) solo
• Magicians at Work (Philology, 2002)
• Conversations (Gambit Records, re-issue 2009, orig. 1973) with Frank Rosolino
  Frank Rosolino
  Frank Rosolino was an American jazz trombonist.- Biography :Born in Detroit, Michigan, Frank Rosolino studied the guitar with his father from the age of 9. He took up the trombone at age 14 while he was enrolled at Miller High School where he played with Milt Jackson in the school's stage band and...
  
  , Conte Candoli
  Conte Candoli
  Secondo "Conte" Candoli was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show. He played with Gerry Mulligan, and on Frank Sinatra's TV specials...