He studied piano with Maestro Flavio Crivelli and began his career collaborating with musicians from the Genoa Area, especially with the bassist Piero Leveratto.

In 1993 he was invited for the first time in the USA. He plays with Red Holloway and Albert "Tootie" Heath on a tour on the West Coast.

In the same year he founded "We love Jazz" Workshop, now become one of the biggest events in Europe for jazz teaching.

In 1994 he was hired by "Monad Records" in New York and back in the United States as pianoplayer and music director of Shawnn Monteiro's band, with Keter Betts and Bobby Durham.

He has played in several european tours with the Nat Adderley Quintet, composed by Antonio Hart, Walter Booker and Jimmy Cobb.

In 2001 he joined the Archie Shepp's "Just in Time" Quartet with Wayne Dockery and Bobby Durham.

Since 2001 he is the artistic director for the jazz division of AZZURRA MUSIC label.

In 2003 he played at "Jazz Piano Festival" in Lucerne.

In November 2004 he played in Japan, where his albums have become bestsellers.

He played in Italy, France, Germany, Corsica, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, USA, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Dubai, Luxembourg, Spain, Japan, Yugoslavia,Canada.

From 2014 is a Recording Artist for Venus Records the famous japanese jazz label and he recorded 40 cds with great names like George Cables, Jimmy Cobb ,Steve Williams, Steve Nelson, Rita Payes, Scott Hamilton,Ron Carter, Louis Hayes, Bob Cranshaw and many others

In 2017 forms a quartet called AFRO CUBAN 4ET with Nicola barbon on bass, Bobo Facchinetti on drums and the great cuban percussionist Ernesttico and record a successful cd for Venus Records.

In 2018 went to Russia for a 2 weeks tour wit Nicola barbon and Alexandra Shakina

Massimo’s Music has million downloads and followers on all the digital platforms all around the world and he is one of the artist with more music published and prints on the net.

He has recorded more than 200 Cds with many Italian and foreign musicians.

He has played with these Italian musicians:

Carlo Atti, Piero Odorici,Massimo Urbani, Gianni Basso, Claudio Capurro, Jacopo Jacopetti, Nicoletta Manzini,Luca Biggio,Emanuele Cisi, Michele Bozza, Cesare Marchini, Bruno Longhi, Stefano Di Battista,Bruno Marini, Annalisa Dudine,Marco Ferri,Claudio Chiara,Fulvio Albano,Antonio Giordano,Diego Borotti,

Giampaolo Casati, Marco Tamburini, Flavio Boltro,Fulvio Chiara,
Fabrizio Bosso,Nico Carleo,

Luca Begonia, Mauro Ottolini,Dino Piana,

Aldo Zunino, Rosario Bonaccorso,Lucio Terzano, Marco Vaggi,
Giorgio Rosciglione, Dario Rosciglione,Francesco Mariella,
Massimo Moriconi, Piero Leveratto, Luciano Milanese, Ares Tavolazzi,
Lorenzo Conte, Paolo Benedettini, Nicola Barbon, Dario Deidda,
Michel Rosciglione,Carmelo Leotta,Nino Pellegrini,

Gianni Cazzola, Gege’ Munari, Massimo Dall'Omo, Amedeo Ariano, Giulio Capiozzo,Tullio De Piscopo, Giampaolo Ascolese, Stefano Bagnoli,
Enzo Carpentieri, Massimo Chiarella, Ruben Bellavia,Marco Tolotti,
Laura Klain, Bobo Facchinetti,Alessandro Buzzi,Alessandro Fabbri,
Francesco Franzoi, Ferdinando Farao’, Pietro Iodice, Osvaldo Mazzei, Alfred Kramer, Massimo Caracca,Marco Tolotti, Elio Coppola,Nicola Angelucci,

Dado Moroni, Riccardo Zegna, Luigi Bonafede, Federico Conti, Sandro
Gibellini,Alberto Marsico,Matteo Addabbo,

Alessio Menconi, Davide Palladin, Luigi Tessarollo,Sandro Gibellini,
Daniele Cordisco,

Ada Montellanico, Patrizia Conte, Anna Sini, Silvia Donati, Lara
Luppi, Danila Satragno, Riccardo Mei, Gaetano Riccobono,Daria Toffali,
Fabiana Rosciglione,Tiziana Ghiglioni,Giulia Lorvich,Adele Guglielmi,Michela Resi,Bobby Solo, Bruno Lauzi,Vincenzo Failla,

The foreign musicians with whom he worked and recorded:

Red Holloway, Bud Shank, Clifford Jordan, Benny Golson, Jiri Stivin,
Bob Sheppard,Charles Bowen,Gary Bartz, Jesse Davis, Lionel Belmondo, Sylvan Beuf, Bob Bonisolo,Derrick James, Herb Geller, Jerry Weldon,
Steve Grossman, Peter Guidi,Antonio Hart, Plas Johnson, Christophe Laborde, Harold Land, Turk Mauro, Charlie Mcpherson, Lars Moller,
Bob Mover, Bob Porcelli, Paul Jeffrey, George Robert, Jim Snidero,
Hal Stein, Harvey Wainapel, Gary Wiggins, Tony Scott, Richie Cole,
Hal Singer,Archie Shepp,Robert Durham,Scott Hamilton, Hamiett Bluiett,

Nat Adderley, John Allmark, Franco Ambrosetti, Stephan Belmondo,
Lester Bowie, Conte Candoli, Art Farmer, Philip Harper, Terrell Stafford, Duane Eubanks, Dusko Goicovich, Steve Gut, Tom Harrel, Jean Loup Lognon,
Brian Lynch,Mark Morganelli,Stacey Rowles, Clark Terry, Charles Tolliver, Warren Vache’, Benny Bailey, Valery Ponomarev,

Buster Cooper, Carl Fontana, Curtis Fuller, Freddie Lonzo, Rita Payes,

Kenny Burrell,Irio De Paula,Mark Elf, Bruce Forman, Loomis Green,
Grey Sargent, Mike Stern, Jimi Wilkes, Pete Bernstein,
Robertinho De Paula,

George Cables, Bertha Hope, Junior Mance, Horace Parlan,James Williams, Joey de Francesco, Shirley Scott, Jack McDuff, Wild Bill Davis,
Dr Lonnie Smith,Reuben Wilson, Pat Bianchi, Steve Nelson,

Michel Benita, Keter Betts, Mark Bond, Walter Booker,
Pierre Boussaguet,Howard Britz,Cameron Brown, Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Eckinger Isla, Vic Edimo, John Heard, Ed Howard, Paul Imm, Reggie Johnson, Bill Lee, Mike Boone, Eddie Jones,Lloyd Lambert, Alvin Mills, Gus Nemeth, Gotz Ommert, Ed Schuller, Darryl Taylor, John Webber, John Wiitala, Buster Willams, Jimmy Woode, Marty Ballou,Wayne Dockery,

Charlie Antolini, John Betsch, Joe Chambers, Jimmy Cobb,
Keith Copeland, Bobby Durham, Kim Thompson, Steve Williams, Louis Hayes,
Byron"Wookie" Landham, Sangoma Everett, Albert "Tootie" Heath,
Greg Hutchinson,Zam Johnson, Vince Lateano, Kenny Martin, Butch Miles, Alvin Queen,Ben Riley,Manu Roche, Peter Schmidlin, Ed Thigpen, Kenny Washington,Leroy Williams,Kenny Washington,Billy Hart,Carmen Intorre,Leroy Williams,Billy Hart,Kyle Poole,Joe Farnsworth,
Carl Anderson, Carol Bach Y Rita, Joanne Bell, Ginger Brew, Donna Brown, Rodney Bradley, Rev. Lee Brown,Theresa Burnette, Jamie Davis,
Joy Garrison, Connie Laverne, Michelle Hendricks, Sheila Jordan,
Harriet Lewis, Kitty Margolis, Marlon Ray B, Shawnn Monteiro,
Rhonda Moore, Zella Owens, Denise Perrier, Gigi Warner, Michael Whitaker,
Joanna Pascale,Joy f. Brown,Kevin Mahogany,Sandy Patton,Crystal White,Alexandra Shakina,Anna Kolchina, Jessica Young, Joyce Yuille,
Denise King, Loni Williams, Mae Arnette, Crystal White, Simon Jay,
Sally Night, TC Carney III , Marianne Solivan,