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e-mail: edoardomarraffa@yahoo.it

He started to play saxophone in 1987 and he attended Siena Jazz clinics. In 1993 he moved to Bologna where he established “Bassesfere” a collective of musicians that actually includes Fabrizio Puglisi, Luigi Mosso, Alberto Capelli,Vincenzo Vasi, Antonio Borghini, Cristiano Calcagnile, Mirko Sabatini, Pasquale Mirra, Enrico Sartori.
From 1995 till 2000 he worked extensively with Caliri’s Specchio Ensemble, Vakki Plakkula, Paolo Angeli, 66six and in solo.
At the moment he’s playing with his own quartet called Mrafi, with Antonio Borghini’s Memorial Barbecue, Blast Unit Orchestra; he’s working in various Tristan Honsinger’s project like Coda del Vento, Galleria San Francesco, Small Talk; he collaborates with Olaf Rupp, Giovanni Maier and the visual artist Massimo Bartolini, He’s a member of two new  quartets, one including Tristan Honsinger Eugenio Sanna, John Edwards and the other with Alberto Braida, Antonio Borghini and Fabrizio Spera.

FESTIVALS

Angelica, Bologna 1995,1998 (Specchio Ensemble),1997(Vakki Plakkula), 2000 (Solo), 2002 (Galleria San Francesco Opera Mobile by Tristan Honsinger and Ermanno Cavazzoni), 2006 (Rupp-Marraffa duo)
Risonanza Magnetica, Berlin 1996 (Specchio Ensemble; Butch Morris Conduction 61)
Isole che parlano Palau. 1996 (Fraili), 1998( Vakki Plakkula), 2002 (Coda del Vento)
Mystfest, Cattolica1997 (Han Bennink, Mosso Caliri)
Jazz in Town, Bologna 1998 (Tim Berne, Cusa, Mosso)
Curva Minore, Palermo,1998 (Francesco Cusa 66six)
Konstanzer Jazzherbst, Konstanz 1999 (Specchio Ensemble)
European Trytone Festival, Amsterdam 2000 (Vakki Plakkula)
Controindicazioni,Roma 2000 (Sabatini, Mosso, Puglisi, Lauro Rossi), 2001 (Mondo-Ra)
AH-UM Jazz Festival, Milano 2001 (Blast Unit Orchestra), 2002 (Mrafi)
Festival Jazz in Orsara, Orsara 2002 (Mondo-Ra)
Sound+Vision, Antwerp 2004 (Massimo Bartolini)
Ai confini tra Sardegna e jazz ,Sant’Anna Arresi 2004 (Memorial Barbecue)
Konfrontationen ; Nickelsdorf 2005 (Tristan Honsinger “Small Talk”).
Festivaletteratura, Mantova 2005 (Amiri Baraka and BlueArk )
TroK! International music meeting, Milano2005 (Mrafi)
Clusone Jazz 2006 (Marraffa-Mirra duo)
ContemporaneaMente, Lodi 2006 (Mrafi)
Registres i Habits Barcellona, fundacio A. Tapies, 2006 (Aus Schlafes Bruder by Massimo Bartolini)
Artacts, St. Johann in Tirol 2007 ( Honsinger, Sanna, Marraffa, Edwards)
Jazz Al Leu, Casalborgone 2007  (Pasquale Mirra, Hamid Drake)
Konfrontationen ; Nickelsdorf 2007 (Braida, Marraffa, Spera, Borghini)
Vision Festival; New York 2008 ( Braida, Marraffa, Spera, Borghini)

He has played with among the others :
Dimitri Grechi Espinosa, Malcom Braff, Eugenio Sanna, Mike Cooper,. Edoardo Ricci, Giovanni Maier, Han Bennink, Lester Bowie, Don Moye, Tim Berne, Joe Williamson, Alessandro Bosetti, Sabine Meyer, Edoardo Ricci, Massimo Falascone, Luca Venitucci, Filippo Monico Fabrizio Spera, Gianfranco Tedeschi, Amiri Baraka, Steve Colson, Brian Smith, Lisle Ellis, Alberto Braida, Alan Wilkinson, Aleksander Kolkowski, John Edwards, William Parker, Hamid Drake.

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
“Aucune idée encore”, Malcom Braff, 1991
Suite n.1 per quintetto doppio, Specchio Ensemble, CaiCai 005, 1995
Una Barca , Vakki Plakkula, ida 012, 1998
Du Demon et autres questions, 66six, Bassesferec 002, 1999
Solo, Edoardo Marraffa, Bassesferec 005, 2000
Porcyville, Specchio Ensemble, ida 017, 2003
Live in Rome, Blast Unit Orchestra, C-Jam 05, 2005
La terra di giubba, Mrafi, raitrade 2006
Graffi, Giovanni Maier-Edoardo Marraffa, Palomarecords 2006
Old Red City, setola di maiale records, 2008
Crash trio, setola di maiale records, 2008
EdusTonus, Tonino Miano-Edoardo Marraffa, 2008

TEACHING

He teaches  saxophone at Popular Music School "Ivan Illich in Bologna and he conducts workshops on improvisation both at Ivan Illich and in primary schools.