A-NO-NE Music

 Rafael Russi was born in Passo Fundo, Brazil in 1987 and started to play the guitar from the age of twelve. By the age of 18, he decided to seriously follow the music career, and enrolled a music college in his home town. Rafael was playing in a reggae band at this point, but was also being exposed to records of the great jazz masters of the past like Trane, Miles and Shorter. He also was becoming familiar with new generation jazz players Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Brian Blade, John Patittucci and Danilo Perez. After listening to these new sounds, Rafael decided to dive into the jazz world, and for the attend to Souza Lima Conservatory of music in São Paulo. 

After taking classes with Julio Herrlein, a guitar player from Porto Alegre, Rafael went to São Paulo and started to take classes with Lupa Santiago. After taking two years of intense classes with some of the best jazz players in Brazil like Sizão Mazhado, Daniel D'alcantra, Vitor Alcantra, Nenê, Jarbas Barbosa, Guilherme Ribeiro and others, Rafael received a scholarship to attend the Berklee College Of Music in Boston. 

Curently, Rafael is in Boston taking classes with some of the best jazz players and teachers in the world like Tim Miller, Lello Molinari, John Damian, Dave Santoro, Jeff Galindo, David Gilmore, Ken Cervenka and Hal Crook. Rafael appeared in performances with Nelson Ayres, Bruno Migotto, Luis Mora, Nene, Abner Paul, Rafael Ruffus, Glecio Nascimento, Gustavo D'amico, Jonathan Greenstein, Victor Gould, Vishal Nayak, Kyle Miles, Pablo Eluchans, Ayal Tsubery, Hiro Honshuku. Also, Rafael is working as a side man for some singers in the Boston area like Ju Mariciano, Jill Peacock, Tais Alvarenga. In the future, Rafael hopes to continue his studies in jazz performance and also hopes to develop his composition skills.