Editing Paolo Fresu (section)

== Early Life ==
Fresu began studying the trumpet at age 11 in the "Bernardo De Muro" music band of Berchidda.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Jazz |first=All About |date=2024-10-28 |title=Paolo Fresu Musician - All About Jazz |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/paolo-fresu/ |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=All About Jazz Musicians |language=en}}</ref> At a young age, Fresu joined "Banda" a local marching band, where a member gave him a cassette of ''Miles Davis in Europe,'' with "Autumn Leave."<ref name=":0" />

Fresu professionally started in 1982, where he recorded with RAI, an Italian public broadcasting corporation, under the direction of Bruno Tommaso.<ref name=":2" />

In the early 80s, Paolo Fresu had attended the Siena Summer Jazz Seminars and impressed Enrico Rava with his performance. It was over the next 10 years did Fresu become a major player in the Italian scene. He started with his quintet, which is currently going, and then began to branched out through a variety of projects.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paolo Fresu |url=https://d7.drunkenboat.com/db23/sardinia/paolo-fresu |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Drunken Boat |language=en}}</ref>