April 24, 1963:
Little Fabio comes into the world and finds himself in Naples, Italy.



1970
Mami brings him to Florence




1978
Decides trumpet is going to be his main axe

1982
First good-paying gigs with Giorgio Gaslini who also introduces him to the European Community Jazz Orchestra (no money there, but lots of fun around Europe aralding its future unity)


Also 1982
His own quintet wins 2nd prize at the 1st Leverkusen Competition for Newcomers


1983 - 1985
Studies with Enrico Rava,Kenny Wheeler,Terence Blanchard

1985
Tells Mami goodbye, relocates to LA (culture shock!) to study composition and arranging at Dick Grove's School of Music

1987
Graduates and wins second prize at the Competition for Big Band Arranging in Barga, Italy


1987 to 1989
Attends Berklee College of Music in Boston

1988
Records his first album as a leader TAKE ONE (Red Records) featuring George Garzone on saxophone






1990

Fabio moves to the Big Apple


1992
Makes his second album for the Japanese label Ken entitled THE PURSUIT with Billy Hart, Geoff Keezer, Peter Washington, Leon Parker and Jesse Davis. Plays Visiones, Birdland and other New York venues with this band. Starts jamming with DJ Smash at the party Giant Step. Also founds, together with nine other crazy minds, the acid jazz band GROOVE COLLECTIVE

1993
Groove Collective's first album for Warner Bros. is born, meanwhile Fabio takes lessons from Donald Byrd, Eddie Henderson and Valery Ponomarev.

1994
Records with Alvin Queen, Goodfellas, starts playing with the Jason Lindner Big Band at the jazz club Smalls, and contributes with his arrangements.



1995
Tours with R&B star Maxwell (and buys a good stereo), also tours and records with Groove Collective for Impulse!

1997
Becomes a steady member of Tamango's URBAN TAP

1998
Records and produces his own third album called SLICK (RedRecords) with JD Allen, Alvester Garnett, Eric Revis, Bill Ware, Jason Jackson and Peter Griesinger. Produces and plays trumpet on JD Allen's debut album "In Search Of" (Red Records)

 

1999
Hosts weekly jam sessions at Izzy Bar in New York, tours Italy with his band, records fourth
album called NEW HOPES

for the japanese label What's New, produces Kenyatta Beasley's first album for the same label.

2000
Records "Colors"(Red Records) with Steve Turre, JD Allen, Eric Revis, James Hurt, Alvester Garnett, Joe Rybczyk jr (aka Joe Ashlar); plays with the Mingus Big Band, starts working with his own futuristic band JUNGLEJAZZ




2001

Produces URBAN TAP's cd and tours the US w/ this show and Italy with his own jazz quartet.

2002
Tours the U.S. with Urban Tap and performs at the Miles Davis Tribute at Symphony Space in NYC with tapper Tamango, tours Russia with GROOVE COLLECTIVE, Italy w/ his own jazz band. Also completes his "Practical method for improvisation" in italian.

2003
Produces "Red Stars" for Sergio Veschi's Red Records, featuring Victor Lewis, Eric Revis, JD Allen, Jason Jackson, Eric Lewis, Raymond Angry and himself. Tours North America and Europe with Tamango's Urban Tap, plays with the Village Vanguard Orchestra, hosts his own monthly party MAKE MUSIC NOT WAR at The Supper Club and Nublu in New York.




2004
Produces argentinian guitarist Pablo Bobrowicky's "New York Connection" for Sergio Veschi's Red Records, where he's also the arranger and flugelhorn player;
records Groove Collective's new album "Music Music People People"
. Meets engineer Andrew Heermans and records his own jazzfunk cd The Voice Within, with Jonathan Maron, Bruce Cox, Joe Ashlar, Jason Jackson, Saul Rubin, Bruno Briscik, DJ Romain and with such guests as Krystle Warren, Josh Roseman, Stefano Di Battista, Gregoire Maret and more!. Tours Mexico and Japan with Groove Collective, Italy (3 times in a year!) with his own bands, also arranges and performs with the Roma Big Band conducted by Pino Jodice. In NYC Fabio begins playing with Butch Morris' ensembles (and he loves it!).




2005
The Voice Within is released in Europe by the italian label Widesound. Fabio's quintet takes part in the Jazzitaliano festival in New York performing at Zinc Bar. Fabio also records for the italian national radio RAI a live concert featuring the new tunes at La Palma club in Rome. He begins recording his new album Need for Peace, with guest singers Krystle Warren, Miles Griffith, Antonio Barbagallo. He keeps playing and touring with Butch Morris, Groove Collective and Urban Tap.


2006
The Voice Within is released in the U.S. by the american label Kufala.
GROOVE COLLECTIVE's album People People Music Music is released in the USA by the legendary Savoy label and gets a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album, (the Grammy goes to Bela Fleck, anyway it was nice to be chosen among the first five). Fabio goes on tour to Europe with this band and to Japan with Tamango's URBAN TAP, performing together with KODO , an amazing ensemble of 50 traditional japanese musicians. Tours Italy with his own trio, plays with Roy Hargrove's Big Band




 


2007-2008
Morgera's Practical Method For Improvisation is published in Italy by Drycastle with the new title IMPROVVISANDO.

The CD Need For Peace is released in the U.S. (Smalls label) and Europe (Splasch) .
Fabio becomes a steady member of the Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris, performing in NYC and festivals in Europe (Saafedlen, S.Anna Arresi) . From this experience he gets inspired to create his own "FreeJazzFunk" group called "TURBULENCE". With this band he performs at the Ischia Jazz Festival in Italy.
Also he tours as a Jazz soloist in Japan -Thailand - Singapore.
He attends the Italian Brass Week in S.Fiora, a "legit" brass seminar with the great trumpeters Allen Vizzutti and Jens Lindemann who help him to dramatically improve  his  trumpet playing skills.




2009
In 2009 Fabio records his first album for the Emarcy-Universal -Italia label , fulfilling his desire of paying homage to the music of his native city of Naples, by arranging some of its most classic songs in a Jazz fashion. Thanks to drummer E.J. Strickland, bassists Gregg August and Gianluca Renzi, pianist Craig Hartley, vibist Christos Rafalides, saxophonist Stacy Dillard and trombonists Gary Valente and Jason Jackson the album ends up sounding very "New York Jazz", but inspired by neapolitan melodies.
Morgera performs in Portugal with Butch Morris and tours Israel as a Jazz soloist. In Italy he participates to the Italian Jazz Graffiti with his own big band arrangement of his tune Si Fa Sera.
In Italy this year he also plays at the Eddie Lang Jazz Festival in Monteroduni, the S.Marino Jazz Festival, the Gray Cat Festival in Tuscany and the Jazz Expo in Cagliari with Gavino Murgia.
In the summer of 2009 he's hired by italian superstar Jovanotti to recruit musicians for the
Soleluna NY Lab, the band that will accompany Jovanotti on his american tours. Fabio also ends up performing with them  in several (packed) clubs of New York. The performances are documented in the DVD "Oh Yeah" . With Jovanotti and his Soleluna NY Lab Fabio records the Jovanotti's CD also titled "Oh Yeah".