Paolo Fresu (; born 10 February 1961) is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music. Career Born in Berchidda, Sardinia, he picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band Bernardo de Muro in his home town Berchidda. Fresu graduated from the Conservatory of Cagliari in 1984, in trumpet studies under Enzo Morandini, and attended the University of Bologna School of music and performing arts in Bologna. He made his debut in 1985, with the release of his first album Ostinato. He has taught at the Siena Jazz National Seminars, as well as jazz university courses in Terni, and is the director of Nuoro Jazz Seminars in Nuoro, Italy. Fresu composes music for theatre, poem, dance, radio, television, and film. In 2007, he recorded and toured with Carla Bley's quartet, the Lost Chords. In 2011, he released Mistico Mediterraneo, which featured him, Daniele di Bonaventura and five other members playing bandoneons in A Filetta style. In 2012, his quintet performed at the Sirifort Auditorium, New Delhi, India, to celebrate 10 years of the Italian culture center there. In 2015, Fresu was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music. Partial discography The complete official discography of Paolo Fresu can be found on his official website (more than 600 tracks). 1987 Mamut: Music for a Mime (Splasc(H), 1987) 1989 Opale with Francesco Tattara, Furio Di Castri (Clac, 1989) 1991 Umiliani Jazz Family with Piero Umiliani (Liuto Edizioni Musicali, 1991) 1993 Contos with Furio Di Castri, John Taylor (EGEA, 1993) 1995 Palatino with Aldo Romano, Michel Benita, Glenn Ferris (Label Bleu, 1995) 1995 Mythscapes with Furio Di Castri, Jon Balke, Pierre Favre (Soul Note, 1995) 1996 The Hands with Flavio Piras, Furio Di Castri, Antonello Salis (Amiata, 1996) 1997 Wanderlust (RCA Victor, 1997) 1998 Palatino Tempo with Aldo Romano, Michel Benita, Glenn Ferris (Label Bleu, 1998) 1998 Condaghes with Jacques Pellen, Erik Marchand (Silex) 1998 Things Left Behind with Iridescente Ensemble (Symphonia) 1999 Metamorfosi (RCA Victor) 1999 Shades of Chet with Enrico Rava (Via Veneto Jazz) 2001 Porgy and Bess with Orchestra Jazz Della Sardegna (Il Manifesto) 2001 Heartland with David Linx, Diederik Wissels (EmArcy) 2002 Kind of Porgy & Bess (RCA Victor) 2003 Scores (CAM Jazz) 2006 Homescape with Nguyen Le, Dhafer Youssef (ACT) 2007 Mare Nostrum with Richard Galliano, Jan Lundgren (ACT) 2008