Francesco Martinelli – I was born in Pisa, Italy in 1954, where I graduated in Chemistry and where I still live. Since 1975 I’ve been involved in the promotion of musical events mainly concentrating on contemporary improvisation and jazz. I used to have a “day gig” as an environmental engineer at the Town of Pisa, but I happily gave it up when my work as a music journalist, promoter and historian allowed me to.
As a journalist, I am a regular contributor to the Italian Jazz monthly Musica Jazz, where I run a column about jazz and the Internet, besides writing about my favorite musicians. The magazine runs a long monthly feature about the musician whose Cd is cover mounted: I signed among others those about Billie Holiday, Anthony Braxton, John Surman, Kenny Wheeler, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Lester Bowie.
My writings have appeared in many other magazines, in Italy and abroad: Avant, The Wire and VJM in England, Signal to Noise in the USA, Coda in Canada, Improjazz in France, Jazzlive in Austria.
On the web, I maintained a column for a while on All About Jazz international.
