MARCELLO TONOLO Born in Mirano(VE) in 06/01/1955, he has been collaborating with some of the best italian jazz musicians: Giovanni Tommaso, Gianni Cazzola, Massimo Urbani, Larry Nocella, Marco Tmburini, Piero Odorici, Maurizio Caldura, Enrico Rava and with many american musicians such as Chet Baker, Kenny Clarke, Al Cohn, Lee Konitz, Pepper Adams, Steve Grossman, Sal Nistico, Elliot Zigmund. He has partecipated at the most important italian festivals and he has played in Europe and in the States as well. He recorded with Bob Porcelli, Steve Lacy, Curtis Fuller, Paul Jeffrey, Heddie Henderson, Joe Lovano, Slide Hampton, Rachel Gould, Keith Copeland, Sam Most and four albums under his name: "D.O.C." in 1986 and "On The Wings"(1999) in trio and "Days" and "Seed Journey" with the group "Music On Poetry" in which he is the leader. He is a member of the "Gap Band", he plays in the Marco Tamburini's Quintet and in the Massive Groove and he is the director of the Thelonious Monk Big Band in which he arranges the music too. In 1997 he won the Tenth international competition of arrangement for jazz orchestra in Barga.