Paolo Fresu Quintet
Born on February 10, 1961, in Berchidda, Sardinia, Paolo Fresu is an Italian
jazz trumpeter. His elegant, experimental playing manages to infuse Miles
Davis's cool jazz period with Mediterranean romance and old country folk
traditions. He began playing trumpet in his town's marching band at the age of
eleven, learning a cyclical breathing technique from elders who played an
ancient clarinet-like pipe unique to the region called the Launeddas. Having
discovered bebop through Miles Davis and John Coltrane's 1956 album Round
Midnight, he studied at the Music Conservatory in Cagliari...
