PAOLO BENEDETTINI born in Pisa in 1977, he begun studying guitar first, passing on to doublebass later supervisored by Furio Di Castri and Paolino Dalla Porta first to perfect himself then with Buster Williams and Keter Betts. He is living in Bologna since 1995 where he is attending the DAMS. He has been performing with Eric Alexander, Carlo Atti, Emanuele Basentini, Giampiero Burza, Gianni Cazzola, Teo Ciavarella, Keith Copeland, Jesse Davis, Bobby Durham, Massimo Farao', Paolo Fresu, Henghel Gualdi, Eddie Henderson, Denis Jeter, Tom Kirkpatrick, Nico Menci, Shawnn Monteiro, Piero Odorici, Cheril Porter, Marcus Printup, Marcello Rosa , Roberto Rossi, Kelvin Sholar, Marco Tamburini, Pasquale Tesoro, Luca Velotti, Jimmy Villotti, Eliot Zigmund, Aldo Zunino, Hal Singer, Archie Shepp.