Cosimo Boni's 427 Quintet at Cafe Bohemia

Cosimo Boni’s 427 Quintet is a band that was born at Wally’s Jazz Cafe, Boston’s oldest jazz club, which is located at 427 Massachusetts Avenue.

The 427 Quintet had a weekly residency at the club for 4 years and now they make their debut in New York at the Cafe Bohemia, another historic jazz venue.

The band plays between original compositions and arrangements. The style is a natural evolution of each member experience and years of experimenting on the band stand. The result is a concert that can go anywhere at any moment making the audience part of a journey with no set destination...

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Cosimo Boni’s 427 Quintet is a band that was born at Wally’s Jazz Cafe, Boston’s oldest jazz club, which is located at 427 Massachusetts Avenue.

The 427 Quintet had a weekly residency at the club for 4 years and now they make their debut in New York at the Cafe Bohemia, another historic jazz venue.

The band plays between original compositions and arrangements. The style is a natural evolution of each member experience and years of experimenting on the band stand. The result is a concert that can go anywhere at any moment making the audience part of a journey with no set destination

Cosimo Boni is a trumpet player, composer and educator. He was born in the countryside near Florence and he is now based in New York. He started playing trumpet at age 11 and soon after he started taking private lessons at the local school of music.

After falling in love with the sounds of great masters like Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and Wayne Shorter he moved to Boston,MA to study at Berklee College of Music on a scholarship where he graduated with a Bachelor in Performance and a Master Degree in Contemporary Performance at the prestigious Global Jazz Institute.

During his time in Boston he studied and performed with a lot of different artists like Darren Barrett, Jason Palmer, Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington, George Garzone and many others.

Cosimo is now leading his own bands and has performed in venues and festivals in the USA, Italy, Dominican Republic, Spain and Poland.

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