Piero Bittolo Bon is one of Italian Jazz most acclaimed rising stars. He mainly plays alto saxophone but is also at ease on baritone saxophone, flute and clarinets. Piero has also had a long-standing affair going on with the electric bass, which he played at the beginning of his musical journey in funk, reggae, and rock bands, before committing himself to wind intruments and improvised music. Passionate and vibrant, his music, densely composed or totally improvised, reverberates with echoes of the best of free jazz, fire music, torrid improvisations, sharp attacks and continuous inventions bar after bar.
Member of the fresh and much regarded italian collective/record label El Gallo Rojo Records, he’s currently leading his own sextet “Jümp The Shark”, an ironic blend of compositon, freeform and hard groove, with Gerhard Gschloessl on tuba and trombone, Domenico Caliri on guitars, Pasquale Mirra on vibes, Danilo Gallo on bass and Federico Scettri on drums, and co-leads “Rollerball”, a rock-oriented jazz quintet with Beppe Scardino on bari sax, Enrico Terragnoli on guitar, Danilo Gallo on bass and Massimiliano Sorrentini on drums, not mentioning the many other bands he’s involved in, mainly with his Gallo Rojo fellows and with other major italian musicians. In 2010 he was called to be part of a new Uri Caine project, “Pulse”. His “Original Pigneto Stompers” outfit features giant of electric bass Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Simone Massaron on guitars and Federico Scettri and Massimiliano Sorrentini on double drums. One of his most recents projects, “Lacus Amoenus”, involves the great trumpet player Peter Evans.
His interest in finding new sounds and new improvisational languages brought him to design a special microphone system allowing to control and play the feedback that is generated inside the saxophone tube. This “augmented” alto saxophone is featured in his solo project “SPELUNKER”.
He performed an recorded with many italian artists and international musicians.
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Sajeta 2015
- NINA BULATOVIX (Slo)
- MATTEO VICENTINI aka NATIVE (IT)
- NINA HUDEJ
- LINK DER WASSER (Slo)
- EHT ZEĐ (Slo)
- RANDOM LOGIC (Slo)
- MOTHERFUCKHERTZ – MFHz (Ita)
- PIERO BITTOLO BON (Ita)
- PONTON (Srb)
- BLAŽ & SIMON (Slo)
- NIKKI LOUDER (Slo)
- ANDREW HUNG (UK)
- MARCO CAPPELLI’S ITALIAN SURF ACADEMY (I)
- FM EINHEIT (D)
- NOVI_SAD (Gr)
- MIA ZABELKA (A) & PHILIPPE PETITE (F)
- GUT & IRMLER (D)
- PIERRE BASTIEN (F)
- ETIENNE JAUMET (F)
- LUMISOKEA (I/B)
- SAMO KUTIN (Slo)
- DUŠAN GERLICA – sculptor (Slo)
- BOJAN VRLIČ aka MR HOFFMANN (Slo)
- ROLI (Slo)
- MARKO A. KOVAČIČ (Slo) – Scenography
- MIROSLAV SRETENOVIĆ, aka IZVANREDNI BOB (Srb) – Visual Arts