Tommaso Monopoli
Rome, Italy, Italy
(GMT+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
www.myspace.com\tommasomonopoli

Joined January 8, 2012
Active

About Me

My talents include:

• Composing (er, Kompozing!)
• Drums, Acoustic

Born in Rome (Italy) in 1956, 
began to interested music in the first 70's,
do the first steps studying drums, 
my first group was formed by me - drums,
Umberto Fiorentino - guitar 
(now great protagonist 
of Italian jazz and not only),
Riccardo del Fra, double bass 
(currently director of Jazz Department 
of the Conservatoire National Supérieur 
de Musique et de Danse de Paris,
France (CNSMDP)),
Enrico Orsini - Trumpet and 
Adriano Mordenti - Tenor Sax.
Then, the guitar for the "singer" 
.. typical of ... I subscribe (80's)
to SIAE (Italian Copyright Office) 
and write a little bit of pop for 
almost italian
group (Milk & Coffee and Santarosa).
I now enjoy playing classic 
jazz and contemporary,
my reference points are many, including: 
Keith Jarrett, John Scoffield, Pat Metheny .... 
and many Italian musicians like Enrico Rava, 
Paolo Fresu, Enrico Pieranunzi 
and others, as well as most traditional Davis, 
Coltrane, Shorter, Monk, 
J. Henderson and thousands of others. 
among my favorite modern 
drummers Jack De Johnette, Bill Stewart, 
Brian Blade, Steve Smith, 
Antonio Sanchez ........