“Bouncing with Bud” is the latest project by Alessandro Lanzoni, a tribute to Bud Powell, one of the founders of bebop and modern jazz piano.
Florentine pianist Alessandro Lanzoni graduated at the Conservatory “Cherubini”. His brilliant career started at the age of 14, confirmed with the Premio “Massimo Urbani” (2006) and then reconfirmed with the “Primo Premio” dedicated to “Luca Flores” of Florence (2008) until being awarded the “Best Young Soloist” at the prestigious “Martial Solal” competition of Paris (2010). He received the Top Jazz Award as Best New Talent of the Year in 2013. This prize launched him at a European level, too. His musical education is the result of an intense journey developed in two directions: his “classical” studies, leading to his Diploma of Piano obtained in 2012 with the highest marks and the study of the jazz language at the summer courses of Siena Jazz and those of Berklee College of Music at Umbria Jazz with a scholarship. Alessandro establishes himself as a leader. He achieved excellent results in Europe, Latin America, Israel, and the USA. After listening to him in piano solo at the UN Building, with her 70 years of pure jazz history, Ira Gitler stated: “He shouldn’t be judged as a young musician. He is already exceptional and with every probability he will become even more so”. Recently, Lanzoni has frequently performed with another child prodigy of Italian jazz music, Francesco Cafiso.
