Emanuele, it was your cousin, a drummer, who made you fall in love with jazz. Did you start straight away on the violin, or were you already playing another instrument? The violin was love at first sight. I was five when I discovered, at home, an old German violin that my grandfather had inherited from his father, who had played it as an amateur in his youth. It was an unapproachable, mysterious instrument, shut away in a wardrobe for years. It was restored much later and brought back into use. For quite some time that violin was my main instrument, and you can hear it on albums such as Rotella Variations and Vita Nova by the first line-up of Dinamitri Jazz Folklore. That fascination was, in any case, one of the reasons I began playing. Jazz came later, thanks to the concerts I saw with my cousin and the records […]
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