Music

I love music, who doesn't ?
I prefer music that says something worth keeping in heart, and this is possible for any combination of armony, melody, lyrics and rhythm.

Playing

In 2016 I bought my first trumpet, and fell in love with it immediately: no amplifiers needed, lightweight to bring with you, intense sound resonating with your body. At the same time I got a vertical electric fretless "stick" bass, giving me the low frequencies trumpet can't reach :)

In 2005 I bought a piano, after dreaming about it since I had to stop taking lessons cause I didn't have one (ages ago). It's an electric one, a GEM with 88 weighted keys and dynamics. Had tought about a real one, would have been fun to tune it, but would have also been a pain to do it when forced to... No complains: has a good quality sound, and costed less then 1k EUR, which is fine. Also, it has a MIDI interface; not that I really plan to use it, but if it ever hits me, I can :)

Bands

I'm currently playing with the following bands:

• Hello Burt!
  Burt Bacharach tribute band, in which I'm playing the trumpet.
• Flavio To The Moon
  Buskers trio lounge pop / jazz, in which I'm playing the trumpet.
• Bluebit
  Bass/voice jazz duo, in which I'm playing the bass.
• Blue Leafs
  Jazz trio, in which I'm playing the trumpet.
• Elif In Quartet
  Jazz quartet, in which I'm alternating between bass and trumpet.

Writing

With the help of LilyPond I'm working on transcriptions of music I like for me and my friends to study and play.

Online resources

• Jazz Trumpet Transcriptions
  A collection of over 300 transcriptions of trumpet swing classics compiled by Jacques and Claude Gilbert over a span of 50 years.
• I Was Doing All Right
  An aspiring jazz trumpet player's blog about jazz improvisation and ear training.
• Dave Conservatoire
  A free online music school, aiming to provide a world-class music education for everyone. Reported by "ghostbuster" IRC user in #music-theory channel of libera.chat network on Nov 30 2022 :)
• Solfeggio in rete
  Raccolta di materiale professionale per la preparazione agli Esami di Teoria, Solfeggio e dettato musicale, Lettura, teoria, ear training, Certificazione di fine corso nei Conservatori di stato italiani
• MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment
  Commandline MIDI accompaniment generator
• Open Music Theory
  OpenSource, interactive, online "text" book for college-level music theory courses
• International Music Score Library Project
  Sharing the world's public domain music.
• Mind For Music
  Large collection of Jazz and Contemporary sheet music, arrangements and transcriptions, all completely free!
  A free educational service designed to help musicians create and share compositions, arrangements and transcription.
• Daniil Baturin's Music Page
  I met this guy in the #opensourcemusicians IRC channel on Freenode, where he's been helpful in making friends with the first trumpet of my life (in 2017).
  He publishes a few lead digital scores which are useful for transposition.
• Bob Keller's Jazz Page
  This guy teaches computer science at the Harvey Mudd college. As of 2008 one of his courses happens to be Jazz Improvisation and the Jazz Page seems to be there for that reason.
  I love his website, neat and simple in layout, yet very informative. Should put a link to it in the people's page :)
• JazzStandards.com/
  Contains lots of information about standard jazz tunes, including analisys, cd recomandations, book references.
• Jazz88 on WBGO network
  This is a radio station from Newark (NJ). Newark Public Radio is a cultural affiliate of National Public Radio. It's a listener-supported radio that I used to listen when in USA. 24 hours a day Jazz. No advertising! I missed this one when I came back to Italy, but finally they have an online stream so I started tuning on it again (thanks!).
• Learn Jazz Piano
  A citadel of jazz pianists, by Scott Ranney. This is a BBS-like service, with many interesting resources for learning. It has some targetted advertising, but it's targetted, so not very disturbing.
• Mutopia Project
  Mutopia is similar in spirit to Project Gutenberg, but consists of free sheet music. All music is available as Postscript (.ps) and PDF (.pdf) files, for both A4 and Letter paper sizes, as well as GNU Lilypond's own file format (.ly). Audio previews of the music are available as MIDI (.mid) files; these are computer generated but give a rough idea of what the music sounds like.
• chordie.com
  Guitar tabs, guitar chords and lyrics (lots of stuff, often broken but can be useful anyway).
• GuitarCats
  Home of free online guitar lessons (good jazz leadsheets collection)
• LilyPond - music notation for everyone
  LilyPond reminds me about how good Free Software can be ! It produces high quality music sheets from source code (which means comments, revision control, all keyboard based input). Can also easily transpose pieces and supports metadata and all of that.