In 1975 the Pisa Jazz Society promoted concerts of American bluesman Cooper Terry and Don Cherry – Frank Lowe Quartet. Later he has been a charter member of CRIM (Center for Research about Improvised Music) in 1976. CRIM promoted the Pisa Jazz Festival and many others ad hoc events from 1976 to 1982. The focus was contemporary improvised msuic from Europe and USA.
CRIM coproduced the italian editions of the books by Leo Smith and Derek Bailey and several records (Evan Parker’s Improvisors’ Symposium on Incus, Paul Rutherford duo with Toni Rusconi, Pisa by Maarten Altena Quartet on Claxon, Detto Fra Di Noi by Alex von Schlippenbach trio) on PoTorch.

After 1982 CRIM basically disbanded and he personally promoted events for the Town of Pisa, including La Nuova Onda, a Festival of contemporary italian jazz, planning concerts and events for other Festivals all over the country.
Since 1998 he co-directed the Controindicazioni Festival in Rome. After planning and promoting in December 1997 a major three days Festival dedicated to the Italian Instabile Orchestra, he produced a double CD for Leo Records documenting the event; the CD was critically acclaimed worldwide, and the collaboration with Instabile is an ongoing project, with promotion of concerts in 1998 and 1999.
His articles has been published on several magazines: the Italian musiche (about Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Klezmer Music, Sun Ra), Musica Jazz (about Billie Holiday, Lucky Thompson, Anthony Braxton), Il Sismografo (SISMA newsletter), Nerosubianco (SISMA musicological review), French Improjazz, Canadian Coda, Austrian Jazz Live, English Avant, American Signal To Noise; and in books like Mixtery – A Festschrift for Anthony Braxton edited by Graham Lock for Stride, the book dedicated to the Instabile Orchestra, the Black Music and Blues Encyclopedia (Arcana), the Italian Jazz Encyclopedia on CD-Rom (Editori Riuniti).

His liner notes appears on CDs by FMP, Maya, Leo, Chronoscope, Braxton House, Splasc(h), Nuscope, Soul Note.
He produced two major Anthony Braxton CDs, News from the Seventies (New Tone) and Small Ensemble (Wesleyan) 1994 (Splasc(h) Records).
His most recent book is a Discography of Anthony Braxton.
He also published the discographies of Evan Parker and Mario Schiano, and contributed to the relative entries in Tom Lord’s Jazz Discography.

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