Born in Puglia and then moved to Paris, Matteo Bortone studied at one of the most prestigious European conservatories, the Conservatoire National Superieur, where he earned a master’s degree in jazz and improvised music in 2011. He was awarded “Best New Talent 2015” in the annual poll held by the journalists of the Italian jazz magazine Musica Jazz.
Bortone plays in several Italian and French bands, including the Roberto Gatto quartet, the Maurizio Giammarco quintet, the Alessandro Lanzoni trio, and his own acoustic trio, ClarOscuro.
Besides being a bassist, Bortone is a composer and leader with an original approach to jazz music. No Land’s is one of his most interesting projects: the connection of acoustic and electric, improvisation and composition, jazz and pop/rock.
The band’s name is a sort of calling card: a sound stage with no borders and always open to the unexpected.
The project was created in 2008 for a quartet.
In 2019, it became a quintet and evolved enough to be described as “one of the most audacious bands of the new jazz scene”. The band released the recent album “A Tree in the Mist”, defined as “the evocative power of a landscape seen through clouds”.
