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BIOGRAPHY

Born in Taranto in 1962. As an enthusiast of every kind of music, he soon begins electronic organ studies and attends the Taranto Organ Center courses directed by M° Nuccy Guerra. In the Seventies that instrument was very popular. Here Massimo receives the first important jazz imprinting, with a look at classical music.

In his “backward” path - from the organ to the king of instruments, the piano - he moves quickly to the synthesizer and then approaches the piano, focusing his musical preferences on Jazz (and artists such as Michel Petrucciani, Bill Evans, David Benoit, Joe Hisaishi, André Gagnon) and on the Fusion (a rather disused musical genre). He is infrequently attracted to the British Prog.

He loves to combine the organ (his favorite is an electrophonic Hammond A-105, dubbed Lizzie, equipped with a Leslie 145 sound cabinet) to the sounds of the digital piano and synthesizers.

With respect to classical music, always appreciated by him, Massimo mentions, especially, Rachmaninov, Čhaikovskij, J.S. Bach and Mozart.

From left to right: Massimo Sergi (piano), Piero Di Rienzo (bass) and Marco Argiolas (sax) in a jazz jam session.

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