Edgardo Dado Moroni, born in Genoa, Italy on October 20, 1962, was exposed to jazz music very early, thanks to his parents’ record collection and he started playing piano at age 4.
Basically self taught, Fats Waller, Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, Art Tatum and Erroll Garner were his very first influences and Dado tried to learn their solos by ear until, at age 11, he met local pianist Flavio Crivelli who gave him a more formal training, also introducing him to the music of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and more contemporary pianists such as Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner.
From age 14 Dado started playing professionally all throughout Italy with some of the most important Italian players like Franco Cerri, Tullio De Piscopo, Luciano Milanese, Gianni Basso, Sergio Fanni and Massimo Urbani and at 17 he recorded his first album in trio with Tullio De Piscopo and American bassist Julius Farmer.
In 1979 the encounter with Swiss trumpet star Franco Ambrosetti introduced Dado to the international jazz scene and since then he has performed and recorded with some of the most important musicians such as :
Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, Nicholas Payton, Roy Hargrove, Joe Magnarelli, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Randy Brecker, Freddie Hubbard, Fabrizio Bosso, Jim Rotondi, Tom Harrell, Franco Ambrosetti, Till Bronner, Terrell Stafford, Harry Edison, Enrico Rava, Dino Rubino, Jon Faddis, Bert Joris, Woody Shaw, Paolo Fresu, Flavio Boltro, Marco Tamburini, Clifford Jordan, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Johnny Griffin, Jim Snidero, James Moody, Bob Mintzer, Maurizio Giammarco, Chris Potter, Gary Bartz, Jed Levy, Robert Bonisolo, Zoot Sims, Stefano Bedetti, Al Cohn, Sam Rivers, Daniele Scannapieco, Eric Alexander, Seamus Blake, Rick Margitza, Arnett Cobb, Michael Rosen, Ralph Moore, Joe Henderson, Jesse Davis, Steve Wilson, Lew Tabackin, Bobby Watson, Buddy De Franco, Rosario Giuliani, Frank Wess, Vincent Herring, Stefano Di Battista, George Robert, Slide Hampton, Curtis Fuller, Robin Eubanks, Gianluca Petrella, Peter Bernstein, Joe Pass, Herb Ellis, Giuseppe Mirabella, Barney Kessel, Alessio Menconi, John Scofield, Martin Taylor, Lionel Hampton, Joe Locke, David Friedman, Thomas Dobler, Terry Gibbs, Hendrik Meurkens, Lesa Terry, Ron Carter, Luca Bulgarelli, Buster Williams, Ray Brown, Jimmy Woode, Red Mitchell, Jimmy Haslip, Wilbur Little, Reggie Johnson, Ray Drummond, John Clayton, Marco Panascia, Ben Street, Darryl Hall, Isla Eckinger, Peter Washington, Dennis Irwin, Nilson Matta, Ira Coleman, Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Jesper Lundgaard, Furio Di Castri, George Mraz, Bob Cranshaw, Pierre Boussaguet, Dieter Ilg, Paolino Dalla Porta, Ed Howard, Percy Heath, Nello Toscano, Giuseppe Bassi, Rosario Bonaccorso, Essiet Essiet, Mads Vinding, Joris Teepe, Hein Van Der Geyn, Kenny Clarke, Art Taylor, Billy Higgins, Jack De Johnette, Lewis Nash, Billy Drummond, Leon Parker, Ben Riley, Adam Nussbaum, Byron “Wookie” Landham, Benjamin Henocq, Terri Lyne Carrington, Billy Hart, Eliot Zigmund, Connie Kay, Peter Schmidlin, Mark Taylor, Marvin Smitty Smith, Adam Cruz, Louis Hayes, Vernel Fournier, Peter Erskine, Billy Cobham, Wolfgang Haffner, Jimmy Cobb, Duduka Da Fonseca, Rodney Green, Willie Jones III, Alvin Queen, Bill Goodwin, Daniel Humair, Jeff Hamilton, Sam Woodyard, Giampiero Prina, Shelly Manne, Fabrizio Sferra, Idris Muhammad, Roberto Gatto, Adrienne West, Carla Cook, Barbara Casini, Roberta Gambarini, Danila Satragno and many others, as well as duets with pianists like Kenny Barron, John Hicks, Benny Green, Mulgrew Miller, Enrico Pieranunzi, Andrea Pozza.
