Giovanni Scalvini
Jazz Double Bass
Jazz and swing double bass player born in Brescia in 1984.
He has taken part in numerous workshops and master classes in Italy and abroad, both on instruments and on ensemble music, with artists of the caliber of Buster Williams, John Webber, Aldo Zunino, Rufus Reid, John Goldsby, Riccardo Fioravanti, Benny Golson, George Cables, Jerry Weldon, Jimmy Cobb, Louis Hayes, Albert Tootie Heat, Byron Landham, Kenny Martin, Eliot Zigmund, John Riley, Marshall Gilkes, Scott Hamilton, John Taylor, John Kinnison, Rosario Giuliani.
Graduated with a three-year degree in jazz double bass from the Luca Marenzio conservatory in Brescia.
He has held thousands of concerts throughout Italy and Europe.
He played with Sandro Gibellini, Simone Guiducci, Massimo Faraò, Mauro Negri, Robert Bonisolo, Marco Brioschi, Nicola Angelucci, Mauro Mengotto, Lorenzo Baldasso, Alessio Magliari, Antonio Ciacca, Alfredo Ferrario, Simone Daclon, Tommaso Starace, Claudia Zannoni, Fabrizio Bernasconi, Achille Succi, Fulvio Sigurtà, Kyle Gregory , Valerio Abeni, Roberto Bobo Facchinetti, Guido Bombardieri, Hugo D'Leon, Marco Scipione, Luca Campioni, Ruben Chaviano, Stefano Negri, Claudio Giovagnoli, Fausto Beccalossi, Roberto Beneventi, Titti Castrini, Alessio Bianchi, Nicola Cellai, Francesco Cangi, Jacopo Rugiadi, Jean-Philippe Scali and many others.
He plays an instrument by the master luthier Gianmaria Assandri of Genoa, which belonged to Luciano Milanese.
Fitted with Toro Strings gut strings.