Celebrated Italian jazz saxophonist and bandleader Stefano di Battista was born
in Rome on February 14, 1969. He immersed himself in jazz at a young age and
start with the saxophone as a teenager, greatly influenced by Art Pepper and
Julian ‘Cannonball Adderley. His desire for a career in jazz solidified after
meeting Massimo Urbani, but it was in the early 1990s, after taking the advice
of pianist Jean-Pierre Como to move to Paris, France, that his career began to
boom. He connected with several of the best French jazz musicians at the time
and made his recording debut as a band...