Urbanfunk

They are founded by Franco Baggiani in 1993, before of 1997 they made two very interesting albums like “Mr. No” in 1995 and “Endosimbiosi” in 1996.
They made passionate season live in all part of Italy and they received many positive review on specialized journal, both in Italy and abroad. They also had a review on the monthly magazine made in New York, the “Loop”. In Which, Mark Fish place Franco Baggiani and his works among the most important things made in Italy in the last decade.
The band, after one reflection period during some months, they made another album totally different from the others that they made. New musicians. After the elimination on the vocal suppor, they are come back to the improvisation as basic elements in the communicative axle of the contemporaneous Jazz, as a trade union between the first “UBF” and the current group, full of emotive power and spirit that, thanks of our leader, they have success to join together magic alchemies where the echo of the pop melt itself with the contemporary ''groove”, and to converge on the sinuous see of the modern jazz. In 2000 they made “W TEX” with one tournée and in 2002 its quitted “Urbanfunk”, the last album that the band had produced from the “Sound Records” who propose many passage from the vast repertory of the band.

Franco Baggiani - Tattoo

Like many other project made from Franco Baggiani, this project made to find new solution or new point of view inside the melt between jazz and others musical area.
This time Franco Baggiani turn of the collaboration of Mario Leonelli part of the group of “Govinda”, electronically and virtual musician who, on the base of indication of the trumpeter had draw something like a sound electronic palette, in etnic-indian-jungle-house style in which we drawing sudden spirals and relaxing themes in ambient taste style, that are framed video sequences.
Those are editing from Mario Leonelli.
Sitar, Indian flutes, tables and so many others instruments that are come from others culture they meet together inside the creation of the trumpeter, clear and clean, with echoes and electronically elaboration that take us in a profound dimension, making a very beautiful and pleasant musical mix.
Trying, is not only going out of the reality, infect with “Tattoo” we can dancing with the tendency “groove” and find the veiled quotation of L. Bowie or from the “Beatles”.
Compose, break down, and composing it again like in a puzzle that remind at a musical market where all our souls meeting in a fantastic result.
The first album came out in 2002.

Around the bop

Musiche di C.Parker, D.Gillespie, C.Brown, H.Silver, G.Mulligan, S.Rollins

Franco Baggiani: trumpet
Andrea Coppini: tenor sax
Max Pinzauti: piano
Stefano Lepri: double basso
Leonardo Alletti: drums

The fives members born with the volunteer of give again life at the bop repertory in physiological way and with “style”, unfortunately that repertory its abstract, and many times looking by many contemporary jazz musician.
But now this repertory still be fresh and with a very big impact.
The fives members face the lecture of this classical jazz repertory with big enthusiasm Without disdeign some raid in a very hard bop more modern in the sign of the other one group of other 5 people. It’s also direct by the couple: Franco Baggiani – Andrea Coppini: the “Chorus Quintet”.
No doubt it’s a performance full of energy.

Chorus quintet

Franco Baggiani: trumpet
Andrea Coppini: saxophone
Alberto Rosadini: drums
Marco Cattarossi: double bass
Leonardo Pieri: piano

The Band was born from an idea of Andrea Coppini and Franco Baggiani.
Florentine musician with jazz training, but they are active in the contamination style area.
The idea is going back to the roots of that contamination, at the period of the Soul Jazz. During the composition, they take inspiration from the original passage.
In that period some important musician like C. Adderley, H. Silver and H. Hancock, decides to link jazz and blues, trying to create the first contamination with the soul. From that first experiment, they gave born to the other fusion and contamination until nowadays.
The group purpose is recovering that kind of sound. It’s Departing from jazz with matrix in the bop, that link in the root of blues feeling. Give prefer at a vision of jazz more instinctive and going far from the complexity.
Anyway, the band want give a personal and actual interpretation of the concepts that were at the based of the soul jazz season.
The “Sounds Record” produced the first album: “Step One”.

Franco Baggiani & Dynamnics

Franco Baggiani: trumpet, pieces
Giovanni Cifariello: guitar
Marco Cattarossi: bass
Alberto Rosadini: drums

The band was born in the season of 1995 from one part of the “Urbanfunk”. But in the first moment the decision of Franco Baggiani result unsuitable.
This band was more similar to the strong soul part of urbanfunk instead of a new project.
After some concerts, Franco Baggiani decide to freeze the project, finding new musicians who can realize with passion and enthusiasm the new ideas.
This happens in the season of 1996, and after a series of repertory trying, it took the appearance of the idea.
Thanks to the originality of the Baggiani’s writing and rewriting, and also thanks at the best quality of the group.
The strong drummer, Alberto Rosadini, and the eclectic and virtuous guitarist, Giovanni Ciffariello (classical-contemporary) and Marco Cattarossi are linked with harmony together.
They are the recipe of the new project of Franco Baggiani, who cures the formal structure and the exploration the new “fields” metal funk and Zappa. Linking this structure with some citation and part of jazz. That it was at the base of all researches of Franco Baggiani.
The first album it’s “Live at Blue velvet”.
The new York’s magazine” Loop” describe this like one of the most interesting European work in 1997. And the Dutch’s magazine “Panasonic New” gives award like best European records for jazz sound.

Electric Shout

Franco Baggiani: trumpet, arrangement, composition

Alberto Rosadini: drums
Fabio Baini: bass
Andrea Coppini: saxophone
Giovanni Cifariello: electric guitar
Antonio Gentile: percussions

Electric version that looking in a creative and characteristic version the funk vision of Franco Baggiani, the years of ’70-’80 purposing passage like Jean, Pierre, Tutu, Mr. Morrisine and the original funk of B. brew.

Sound Street Band

It's one of the most amusing productions by “Sound”.
It takes inspiration from the Afro-American Marching bands that have life in New Orleans at the beginning of the century.
The “Sound Street Band” looking to the old jazz passage, like “Hello Dolly” or “Basin Street Blues”, linking this with a modern shape of Afro-American music (rhythm’n blues, funky, etc…).
Street show band that display our self in each party or place with an adequate spaces.
The band it composes by clarinet, brasses, saxophones and percussion.
The group was active from the 1992, but in 1999 they making the album “Marchin the blues”. They take part in the Viareggio Carnival, the ‘On the road’ Festival, the Green Fest; they also take part on inauguration of squares and commercial center in all part of Italy.
They took success in each places.

Franco Baggiani e Antonio Gentile - World Two

The percussions had life in the old and modern style of the music.
Many percussion instruments they are the skeleton of the passages.
The ancestral sounds from the trumpet of Franco Baggiani, taking the spectator in a way that departing from: the jazz, the Afro-American music, the ambient, the dup, and also to the trip hop.
Going through different tradition like from Sardinia and sub-Saharan.
Berimbao, Djambé, drums, and percussions stones "talking" with the trumpet; and together they "stopping the time". Franco Baggiani is a national popular trumpeter and composer. He is active in the jazz music, in the funk, and in a contemporary music.
Antonio Gentile, who plays a lot of percussion instruments coming from of different ethnics, has a very big musical training in each area.
The first album was in 2004.

Sound Orkestra

Classical “Big Band” composed by 12-14 musicians that was born in 1990.
Inside the orchestra have playing the best jazz soloist and musicians from Florence.
Current it has like important soloist: Andrea Coppini and Giacomo Downie.
Franco Baggiani directs this group.
They playing from the years ’30-’40 with passage like ‘Stompin’ at the Savoy (C. Basie) till the modern funky like ‘Watermelon man’ (H. Hanchok).
They giving attention at the rithm’n’blues passage like “Sittin’ on” and “Basame Mucho”.
They were playing in many Italian and Foreign festival, in special in the “Znoymo Festival” in Ceca Republic.
Recently, they were playing in Lione (France) where they take a lot of success.