Carmelo Leotta was born in 1975, and he's a professional musician since 1999, when he resolved to leave off every kind of other odd jobs (he worked as an actor). He started out playing electric bass in blues bands all around Italy, in the biggest Blues festivals of the country. In the while, he bought a double bass and he get down practising on it. He was hired as a side man by famous italian singers as Massimo Bubola and Eugenio Finardi, with whom he had a big spot. In 2005 he met Bobby Durham and he joined the trio with him and Massimo Faraò until Durham sadly passed away, in 2008. Then he stayed on the high level italian jazz scene, frequently touring with Huge american jazz musician as Archie Sheep, Benny Golson, Jimmy Cobb, Mickey Rocker, Michelle Hendrix and many others. In the while he wrote a lot of music and recorded four records as a leader, for small bands as far as for septet and big band. About his didactic activity, he assisted Buster Williams and others american bass players during workshops He had always regularly taught in music schools and privately, looking after electric bass, upright bass students and combo classes. In 2014 he moved to Berlin, where he actually lives, and was right away involved in many international musical projects. He was hired as musical director in the famous clubs "Badehaus" and "Neueheimat", and performed with many bands in A-Train jazz club, B Flat and all around Germany.