Born
in Turin, he is a doctor and an environmentalist; he started his musical activity
in rock and fusion groups like the ESAGONO (1978),
after being a drum player of light music.
He resolutely moved to jazz and he studied in depth its instrumental-technical
aspect with Bruno Biriaco and then with Enrico Lucchini, Al Levitt
and Daniel Humair.
In
1979 he formed the Combojazz group with which
he began to perform all over Italy, with other jazz groups and soloists too.
He was in several jazz festivals such as Ivrea (two times), Foggia, Aosta,
Torino, Milano, Roma, Udine, Moncalieri, Alassio, La Spezia, Avigliana,
Monferrato, Acqui.
He performed in Italy and abroad in a lot of jazz clubs, playing in a trio
of his own with foreign and Italian soloists.
He taught for a while at the specialization courses by Arci of Turin,
at the cooperative Musica Dal Vivo and at the Liceo Musicale of Savigliano.
In 1980 he founded the Associazione Culturale
011 Jazz Promotion, to promove Italian jazz musicians; after being the organizer
of festivals like "Jazz a Torino" that led to the creation of jazz pubs in the city,
this association stopped his activity in 1990.
He often played with Gianni Negro,
Tiziana
Ghiglioni,
Flavio Boltro,
Alfredo Ponissi,
Franco Cerri,
Giulio Camarca,
Claudio Fasoli, Diego Borotti,
Paolo Birro,
Marcello Tonolo,
Piero
Leveratto,
Riccardo Zegna,
Aldo Zunino and with some foreign artists as Bob Porcelli, Mark
Levine, Johnny Griffin, Hal Stein, Carol Bach Y Rita,
Jenny Stein, Peter Guidi,
Jim Snidero,
Harvey Weinapel, Art Farmer, Slide Hampton, George Garzone, Scott Hamilton.
Now
he's been playing in a quartet/quintet called Doc Jazz.
He plays with the Doctor in Jazz Quartet together with Danilo Pala (alto sax), Fabio Gorlier
(piano) and Saverio Miele (bass). He plays also with the new quartet Jazzo'
together with Danilo Pala (alto sax), Marcello Picchioni (piano) and Elia Lasorsa
(bass) and with the jazz rock band Esagono composed by Marco Cimino, keyb
and vocal,
Danilo Pala (alto sax), Davide Liberti (bass), Max Carletti (guitar).
Discography: 1978 "Vicolo"
Esagono (Mu Records)
1979 "No Speed"
Combojazz (Mu Records)
1985 "Don't say goodbye"
Alfredo Ponissi Ensemble (Fonit Cetra)
1986 "Bursting"
Bob Porcelli (Splasch Records)
1988 "Rising"
Bob Porcelli (Splasch Records)
1993 "Doctor in Jazz"
Giorgio Diaferia Ensemble (Splasch Records)
2002 "OGM free" Doctor in Jazz
quartet
2007 Esagono 2 "live" (Electromantic
edizioni)
2008 "Apocalypso" Esagono
(Electromantic edizioni)
2013 "Wine Notes" Esagono(Electromantic edizioni)
2018 "I'll Remember Bird" Doctor in Jazz Splasc(H)Records
2018 "Dyanology" Esagono
2021 Jazz Not Stop Max Gallo Trio & Guests
