The idea of a big band in jazz is all-encompassing, representing completeness, fullness and instrumental articulation. In the mass collective imagination, when one thinks of jazz, a big orchestra immediately springs to mind, where the doors of rhythm and melody open wide, while harmonies run fast in swing time. The big band is the most traditional jazz formula, but it is also the most difficult: the musicians must be well disposed to choral and synergetic playing without attempting to overpower their sodalists, the solo parts are short and well distributed, while the improvisational fugues are contingent and controlled.

Marco Tiso studied composition with G. Piazza at the Conservatorio di S. Cecilia in Rome, deepening the jazz language with E. Pieranunzi, G. Iacoucci and B. Tommaso, and arrangement and orchestration techniques with G. Gazzani.

A brilliant improviser with a formidable sense of swing, he is undoubtedly the best Gypsy jazz violinist today, and it's not unusual to come across him on stage with such greats as Stochelo Rosenberg and Tchavolo Schmitt. Here he presents a jazz-oriented album, with exceptional musicians: Hugo Guezbar, William Brunard, Dominique Di Piazza and Vincent Frade.