Career
Born in Genoa, lives in Rome since 1961, he debuted with the "Trio Di Roma" in 1975 (with Danilo Rea and Roberto Gatto). Pietropaoli has performed or recorded with, among others, Chet Baker, Lester Bowie, Woody Shaw, Kenny Wheeler, Franco Ambrosetti, Bob Berg, Johnny Griffin, Michael Brecker, Lee Konitz, Archie Shepp, Philosophy Woods, Curtis Fuller, Toots Thielemans, Richard Galliano, Gianni Coscia, John Taylor, Rita Marcotulli, Cedar Walton, John Abercrombie, John Scofield, Joe Pass, Pat Metheny, Ginger Baker, Han Bennink, Billy Cobham, Kenny Clarke, Maria Pia De Vito, Norma Wynstone, Gianmaria Testa. Pietropaoli has toured internationally in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Luxemburg, United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Serbia, Canada, United States.A, Brasil, Senegal, Israel, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, and has made more than 70 recordings.
Since 1999 he appears on Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler’s “Biographical Encyclopedia Of Jazz”.