Tiziano Tononi
Tiziano Tononi (born November 18, 1956, Milan) is an Italian percussionist and composer.
Biography
Tononi taught himself to play drums in a pop/rock idiom as a youth, then turned to playing jazz and classical percussion in his late teens, studying with
Bob Moses. Playing locally in Milan in the early 1980s, he joined the Democratic Orchestra Milano and co-founded the Nexus ensemble with Daniele Cavallanti, as well as the group Moon on the Water toward the middle of the decade. Through the 1980s he played in a variety of idioms with musicians such as Pierre Favre, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Maggie Nicols, Barre Phillips, Dewey Redman, Giancarlo Schiaffini, and Gianluigi Trovesi
.
In the 1990s Tononi played with the
Roland Kirk
.
References
- Stefano Zenni, "Tiziano Tononi". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, 2001, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
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