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I have been thinking about the idea of a trade-mark which deals with the double-bass and its satellites for many years now. I decided that it would have been named "NBB" while I was still studying at the conservatoire but it is only now , with this "jump" into the new millennium, four children and a career well underway that I have found the right motivation, enthusiasm and necessary determination to face this adventure. New technologies have also helped, on one hand by reducing the cost of producing records and on the other hand by giving instant international viewing through the < shop window > of internet.

The "NBB records" project was born in this way, with very little means but with the ambition of quickly becoming an important reference point for those interested in the double-bass without any intention of competing with far more important record companies that can ( and in a certain way have to ) use the impressive means at their disposal and because of their investments rarely deal with the double-bass ( whose market is decisively limited ).
Hence a specialised label thought out, brought to life and used mainly by double-bassists. For precisely this reason it will try to eliminate any distance between production and the consumers, opening confrontation channels where anyone can participate with suggestions, criticism etc., and can even propose himself as composer and/or performer for a record production.
Apart from the normal audio CDs, particular attention will be given to the production of educational CDs and Videos , but "NBB records" is also written music, the editing of historical manuscripts, curiosities, gadgets, games, unusual accessories, a double-bassists database, a mini on-line magazine, conventions: in other words a kind of ideas and energy catalyst concerning anything to do with the double-bass.

The record production is open to any music in which the double-bass is in some way protagonist: from the traditional repertoire to the most imaginative contamination, going from arrangements and transcriptions of works by great composers of the past to Pop/Rock groups of the last decades. Particular attention will also be given to the re-proposal of the instrumentalist-composer figure ( that is the musician who is a virtuoso of his instrument and who uses it to its full capacity ).
This will be done through the production of a collection of "new" music played and recorded by the composer himself. There will also be a space reserved for research and the publishing of music from the personal archives of great double-bassists of past generations, drawing from radio documentaries, records which are no longer in any catalogues to recordings of live concerts; and whatever else that could be of interest.

- the transcriptions of pieces for other instruments ( including
baroque, classical, romantic, historic-'900 and contemporary
composers )
- transcription of alternative kinds of music (pop; rock; ethnic; jazz)

- monographic and non-monographic collections of new composers who play their own compositions (only db; db and other instruments; db and orchestra)

the retrieval of old recordings from the personal archives of
great double-bassists of past generations

MASTERCLASS is the name of the series of videocassettes dedicated
to the teaching of the double-bass; the main purpose of its practical andfunctional style is to show the students as many ways as possible to practice
(dealing with pieces from the classical and non-classical repertoire, including orchestral excerpts). The piece is broken up into a series of micro-studies aimed at practising every passage in detail ; the technical problems will therefore not be treated in general, but the starting point will always be taken from a musical need in the piece that is being studied.
Every video will last about an hour and it will study one or two compositions
from the main repertoire.