Beppe Aliprandi Jazz Academy Quintet at Pula Jazz Festival

His first important commitments date back to 1960, with the Jazz-bo Quartet, one of the first Italian groups who abandoned the dominant Californian influence to beat the new roads of the Hard Bop. Same time he begin a long tour in Europe with the Latin Fire Combo, an international sextet playing mainly Afro-Cuban Jazz.
In the 70’s he’s mostly Beppe Aliprandi active in Milano and founds, with Claudio Fasoli, the Open Jazz Group. Then he moves away from jazz music for a few years and expresses his creativity with painting and engraving, and he also receives significant awards today too. In late 1980's, Aliprandi came back and gave birth to the JAZZ ACADEMY, a sign who gathers from time to time leading musicians for concerts and recording sessions....

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His first important commitments date back to 1960, with the Jazz-bo Quartet, one of the first Italian groups who abandoned the dominant Californian influence to beat the new roads of the Hard Bop. Same time he begin a long tour in Europe with the Latin Fire Combo, an international sextet playing mainly Afro-Cuban Jazz.
In the 70’s he’s mostly Beppe Aliprandi active in Milano and founds, with Claudio Fasoli, the Open Jazz Group. Then he moves away from jazz music for a few years and expresses his creativity with painting and engraving, and he also receives significant awards today too. In late 1980's, Aliprandi came back and gave birth to the JAZZ ACADEMY, a sign who gathers from time to time leading musicians for concerts and recording sessions.
His music grows day after day, following the road traced by the great masters of the Jazz, keeping always a firm bond between the avantgarde and the richest tradition of swing, allowing in his language, well ahead of current fashions, the stimuli from different expressions, such as chamber music, Indian music and popular musics from Africa, Balkans, Arab countries and Caribbean.

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