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 Andrew Cyrille and Bob Moses. Playing locally in Milan in the early 1980s, he joined the and co-founded the ensemble with , 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, , Maggie Nicols, Barre Phillips, Dewey Redman, Giancarlo Schiaffini, and Gianluigi Trovesi.

In the 1990s Tononi played with the and the Italian Instabile Orchestra, as well as in a trio with . His Multiphonics Tuba Trio, with and Michel Godard, was founded in 1997; he also did composition and arrangement work, including the soundtrack to and tributes to Don Cherry and Roland Kirk.

References[]

• Stefano Zenni, "Tiziano Tononi". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, 2001, ed. Barry Kernfeld.