Artist
Tito Mangialajo Rantzer
Biography
Tito Mangialajo Rantzer is an Italian double bassist, electric bassist and educator, born in Milan in 1967. His studies included work with Franco Feruglio, Giorgio Azzolini, Furio Di Castri, Walter Booker, Dave Holland and Barre Phillips.
He has collaborated with Italian jazz musicians including Claudio Fasoli, Antonio Zambrini, Giovanni Falzone, Tino Tracanna and Piero Delle Monache, as well as international performers such as Lester Bowie, Roswell Rudd and George Garzone. His concert work has taken him across Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Alongside extensive recording and film-soundtrack work, he released the solo album Dal basso in alto in 2014 and the quartet album Dedications in 2016. He teaches jazz double bass and electric bass at Milan’s Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory. On Road Movie, he plays bass on tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9.