Mirko Fait

Mirko Fait, Italian of Turkish origins, was born in Milan on 3rd June 1965 in a family of artists. Mirko started playing the guitar at a young age, from the early 1970s, but it was only later that he realised that his cultural ground was jazz music. This is why in the 1990s he chose the contralto saxophone. He started his studies in Bergamo with Alberto Nacci, moving back to Milan he continued studying the tenor saxophone with the maestro Michele Bozza, with Giulio Visibelli and Emanuele Cisi at the centre “Civica di jazz” run by Franco Cerri and Enrico Intra, until his last lessons with the American Michael Rosen

Mirko Fait, Italian of Turkish origins, was born in Milan on 3rd June 1965 in a family of artists. Mirko started playing the guitar at a young age, from the early 1970s, but it was only later that he realised that his cultural ground was jazz music. This is why in the 1990s he chose the contralto saxophone. He started his studies in Bergamo with Alberto Nacci, moving back to Milan he continued studying the tenor saxophone with the maestro Michele Bozza, with Giulio Visibelli and Emanuele Cisi at the centre “Civica di jazz” run by Franco Cerri and Enrico Intra, until his last lessons with the American Michael Rosen.

He played straight away in different bands and he performed from the very first years also in jam sessions and with various jazz groups in a few Milanese clubs (Capolinea, Scimmie, Tangram, Aquatica, Mirasol, le Trottoir, Ittolittos, Ca’Bianca, Santa Tecla).

In January 2002, with the Cuban trumpet player and pianist Gendrickson Mena Diaz, he was asked to play for a renowned stylist group at the Pitti Uomo club and in 2003 he founded the jazz band Five for you. In 2004, with the international concert performers Danilo Manto and Max Patrick, he took part in the contemporary music project Mantic Ensemble. In 2007, he founded the Fait Club Quintet, a name that still accompanies him today.

In 2008, the CD by trumpet player Mena came out. Presented at the Blue Note club and called All I missed, it takes its title from a ballad written by the Milanese saxophonist and the trumpeter himself.

2008 was also the year that saw the artist commit himself to an intensive disco graphic activity. Thanks to John Toso and the Italian Way Music production house, he produced several works in a style mixing jazz, ambient and contemporary music.

In 2009 he was chosen as artistic director of the project “United Jazz Artists of Milan”. Now is also the artistic director for jazz of Italian Way Music label company.

In 2010 the french label company Believe chosen the song “Sex for money” from the album with John Toso “Just for you” for the great summer jazz compilation “70 relaxing holiday masterpieces”. A compilation with Miles Davis, Louis Amstrong, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Toquinho, Stefano Bollani, Enrico Rava, Franco Cerri and many others giant jazz musician!

Collaborations:
Gendrickson Mena Diaz, Giorgio Vogli, Angelo Bifezzi, Gigi Cifarelli, Germano Zenga, Gianluca Di ienno, Paolo Manasse, Mario Manducci, Monica Vignetti, Ezio Salfa, Gianluca Alberti, Marcello Cerra, Mauro Bodini, Nicola Bordino, Enzo Lavenia, Nicolò sala, Giorgio Bellachioma, Niccolò Bonavita, Michele Bozza, Stefano Sernagiotto, Roberto Piccolo, Marco Mistrangelo, Claudio Savoldi Bellavitis, Roberto Agostinelli, Emilio Zilioli, Bob Lopez, Paolo Traino,  Marco Panascia, Stefano DiGrigoli, Daniele Gorgone and many others.

Gear

Tenor sax, Soprano sax