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Jacopo Ferrazza was born in 1989 in Frascati, a city near Rome.

Jacopo is an acoustic and electric bass player, a composer and an educator.

He's graduated in classical bass and classical piano from the italian conservatory of Frosinone
"Licinio Refice”.
He also studied bass with John Patitucci, Ares Tavolazzi, Marco Panascia, Aldo Perris, Luca Cola
and with his father Angelo.
In the meantime he studied also classical piano with Annalaura Cavuoto, Pablo Tellez and Carlo
Negroni.

Jacopo started to play jazz in Rome in 2003 and during these years he has performed as sideman
with some of most acclaimed musicians such as:
David Liebman, George Garzone, Nicola Piovani, Maurizio Giammarco, Fabrizio Bosso, Enrico Rava,
Enrico Pieranunzi, Rita Marcotulli, Greg Hutchinson, Paolo Fresu, Logan Richardson, Roberto
Gatto, Antonello Salis, Ada Montellanico, Paolo Silvestri, Rosario Giuliani, Camille Bertault, Maria
Pia de Vito, Lorenzo Tucci, Flavio Boltro, Jorge Vistel, Amana Melomè, Israel Varela, Florian Weber,
Fabio Zeppetella, Roberta Gambarini, Salvatore Bonafede, Dario Deidda, Adam Pieronczyk
Marcello Rosa, Andrea Pozza, Fabrizio Sferra, Pino e Pietro Iodice, Max Ionata, Barbara Casini,
Harold Bradley, Claudio e Mario Corvini, Massimo Nunzi and many others.

He also played with pop musicians such as Karima, Erminio Sinni, Serena Brancale, Simona
Bencini, Mario Rosini, Vittorio Nocenzi, Eric Daniel, Giuseppe Cionfoli and with actors such as
Sergio Rubini, Nino Castelnuovo, Leo Gullotta, Licia Maglietta, Riccardo Rossi.

In 2006 he was selected as one of the best young musician in Lazio and he won a scholarship for
the project called "Musicorienta".
In 2007 he was selected as one of the best european young bass player during the "Eurobassday
contest".
In 2011 he won the Jimmy Woode Award as the best bass player of Tuscia in Jazz contest.
In 2017 and in 2019 he was selected as one of the 3 best italian talent by Musica Jazz "Top Jazz”
in 2018 he won the SIAE prize as the best italian jazz talent.
In 2022 he won the Global music awards of California for his album “Fantàsia”

Jacopo has performed in some of most important italian festival and in clubs and festival of New
York, Germany, Washington, North Carolina, Illinois, China, Finland, Marocco, South Corea,
Turkey, Japan, Czech republic, Poland, Belarus, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Spain, Zambia, Zimbabwe…

Jacopo has recorded about 40 album as a sideman, two album as a leader for CAM jazz label, a
double bass solo album called “Wood Tales” and an album in quintet called “Fantàsia”

Jacopo is a jazz double bass teacher at italian conservatory “Braga” in Teramo and a jazz
composition teacher at the “Licinio Refice” conservatory in Frosinone.

In 2021 he founded with his wife Sophia the label Teal Dreamers Factory

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