Giancarlo Schiaffini

Italian composer, trombonist and tubist. He was a member of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza from 1972 until 1983. Composer-trombonist-tubist, was born in Rome in 1942 and graduated in Physics at the University of Rome in 1965. Self-taught, he appeared as soloist in the first free-jazz concerts in Italy and subsequently presented his own compositions widely in the mid 1960’s.