Giorgio Buratti(1935 – 2022) as a result of listening to records of important American jazz figures, suggested to him by his mother, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and others, began self-taught playing the mouth harmonica, given to him by his father
In the Milanese club Santa Tecla in 1950 a way to play in a jam session with trumpeter Benny Bailey and bassist Al King. As a result of this experience, he approached the study of double bass, at first self-taught and later taking lessons. Founded a trio with Enzo Jannacci and Gigi Concato(father of singer Fabio)
In 1960 with drummer Gil Cuppini‘s quintet, with Eraldo Volontè, Sergio Fanni and Ettore Righello, he participated in the first edition of the radio competition broadcast by Rai, the Jazz Cup. The lineup wins first prize ahead of the Turin Quintet
After Cuppini’s experience with Cuppini’s lineup ended, with the quartet under his own name, which included trumpeter Sergio Fanni, saxophonist Gianni Bedori and drummer Jimmy Pratt, he recorded in 1963 the record work Jazz Forms for Export, dedicated to U.S. bassist and composer Charles Mingus
In 1971 he recorded the album A Smooth Day with a group of American musicians consisting of Dannie Richmond, Jaki Byard, Bobby Jones, Eddie Preston
During the 1970s, the Italian double bassist with a muscular and dynamic instrumental approach explored the path of experimentation in the field of free jazz and avant-garde in records such as My Soul In Performances, Explosion/Four Tunes For A Waltz, Don’t Bother Me, I Feel Sexy, L’Impiccato (Dialogue in Two Tenses), recorded with musicians from the Milanese jazz area, Sante Palumbo, Eraldo Volontè, Sergio Fanni, Tullio De Piscopo, Dino Piana, Giancarlo Barigozzi, Claudio Fasoli, Lionello Bionda, Enrico Intra, Angelo Arienti and others
Since 1987 he has devoted himself to teaching in the Jazz Workshop he founded as part of the“Living House” Cultural Music Center
During his career, double bassist, composer and arranger Giorgio Burratti has played with Franco Cerri, Lars Gullin, Franco Ambrosetti, Franco D’Andrea, Franco Tonani, Gato Barbieri, Gene Victory, Chet Baker
Essential Discography: Jazz Forms for Exports (1963 – Darium), A Smooth Day (1970 – Durium), My Soul In Performances (1970 – Bentler), Explosion/Four Tunes For A Waltz (1971 – Darium), Don’t Bother Me (1971 – Darium), The Hanged Man (Dialogue In Two Times) (1972 – Bentler)
