Massimo Biolcati on your iPhone and NY Times real estate section

Surely, you already have Massimo Biolcati’s album Persona on your iPod, but did you know you could easily have his handiwork on your iPhone, too? In addition to being a masterful bassist and composer as a soloist on Persona, and as a member of Gilfema, he’s also the developer of the iRealBook for iPhone.

A professional tool for touring jazz musicians or jazz students, the iRealBook:

is a collection of chord sheets of jazz standards, jazz classics, brazilian classics and more. With the iPhone’s back lit display, sheets can be easily read in a dark jazz club. How many times have you been at a jam session or a gig where someone calls a tune and you don’t know the chord changes? Well, sweat no more, with iReal Book you’ll have the chord changes to all the songs you need in your pocket.

Be an early adopter - check out the iPhone app and Persona - and tell your friends.

(credit: Axel Oberg for the New York Times)

Still curious? See pictures of Massimo’s bedroom in this weekend’s New York Times’ real estate section (really!) in the feature “Musicians Preferred; Loud Music O.K.“ The article about a unique apartment building where Massimo and many other touring artists live includes a photo slide show of Mr. Biolcati’s apartment, set to a Biolcati original improvisation on acoustic bass.

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