Marco Postacchini

Marco Postacchini is an Italian jazz saxophonist. He graduated in Saxophone at the Conservatory of Fermo and in Band Instrumentation, Composition and Jazz (composition, arrangement and Jazz orchestra leader) at the Conservatory of Pesaro. In 2011 he studied with Hal Crook, teacher at the Berklee College of Music. He regularly performs with the following bands: Marco Postacchini octet MP's Jazzy Bunch (as leader and music composer), Machine Head quartet, Blackbird sextet, Vertex quintet, Roberto Zechini Quintet "A deep surface", Out of the Blues quartet, Manzi - Solarino Quintet, A Remarke you made – tribute to Weather Report, the Colours Jazz Orchestra, the Riccione Jazz Orchestra, the Rolli's Tones Big Band, Gabriele Pesaresi quintet, Havona, Filippo Gallo Quintet, Italian Jazz Orchestra, Paolo Belli Big Band. He has worked with musicians of both national and international jazz scene, such as Massimo Manzi, Rita Marcotulli, Maurizio Giammarco, Federico Malaman, Rosario Giuliani, Flavio Boltro, Massimo Nunzi, Javier Girotto, Fabrizio Bosso, Marco Tamburini, Enrico Rava, Aldo Romano, Paolo Fresu, Fabio Zeppetella, Gabriele Mirabassi, Simone Zanchini, Francesco Cafiso, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Bob Mintzer, Peter Erskine, Ayn Inserto, Bob Brookmeyer, Maria Schneider, Scott Robinson, Mike Stern, Ryan Truesdell, Martin Wind, Joe La Barbera, Toninho Horta, Ronnie Cuber, Steve Wilson, Lewis Nash, Jay Anderson, Fabio Concato, Antonella Ruggero, Rossana Casale, Paolo Belli, Sergio Caputo e Raphael Gualazzi. He has had many recording collaborations as side-man and has published three albums in his name, all of them recorded with Marco Postacchini Octet and produced by Not.A.Mi., comprising both jazz standards and original music: "Lazy Saturday" (2010) and "Do you agree?" (2013; with guest appearance by Fabrizio Bosso), "Old stuff, new box" (2018 - with guest appearance by Ada Montellanico and Fabio Zeppetella).