MASSIMO FARAO' BIOGRAPHY "The blackest of Italian pianists" was born May 16th, 1965, in Genoa. He studied piano with Maestro Flavio Crivelli In 1993 he was invited for the first time in the USA. He plays with Red Holloway and Albert "Tootie" Heath on a tour on the West Coast. In the same year he founded "We love Jazz" Workshop, now become one of the biggest events in Europe for jazz teaching. In 1994 he was hired by "Monad Records" in New York and back in the United States as pianoplayer and music director of Shawnn Monteiro's band, with Keter Betts and Bobby Durham. He has played in several european tours with the Nat Adderley Quintet, composed by Antonio Hart, Walter Booker and Jimmy Cobb. In 2001 he joined the Archie Shepp's "Just in Time" Quartet with Wayne Dockery and Bobby Durham. In November 2004 he played in Japan, where his albums have become bestsellers. He played in Italy, France, Germany, Corsica, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, USA, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Dubai, Luxembourg, Spain, Japan, Yugoslavia,Canada. From 2014 is a Recording Artist for Venus Records the famous japanese jazz label and he recorded 40 cds with great names like George Cables, Jimmy Cobb ,Steve Williams, Steve Nelson, Scott Hamilton,Ron Carter, Louis Hayes, Bob Cranshaw and many others In 2017 forms a quartet called AFRO CUBAN 4ET with Nicola barbon on bass, Bobo Facchinetti on drums and the great cuban percussionist Ernesttico and record a successful cd for Venus Records.