Riccardo Brazzale is active in the field of music and entertainment as an organizer, teacher, scholar and especially as a jazz musician. For the City of Vicenza, he has long been responsible for music programming and generally for special projects for the

teatroolimpico.vicenza.it/; since 1996, he has been artistic director of the festival vicenzajazz.org/.

As a musician, in '89 he founded the Lydian Sound Orchestra, with which the best Italian musicians and outstanding international guests have played; since then he has conducted it with concerts throughout Italy and Europe, dozens of CDs and several recordings for Rai Radio Tre (several times live, including from the Cappella Palatina del Quirinale). "Musica Jazz" magazine's Top Jazz voted Lydian in 2016, 2018 and 2019 as Italian group of the year. 

Brazzale, who was composer-arranger of the year for "Top Jazz" in 2008 and received a lifetime achievement award in 2022, is also invited as a guest conductor by other orchestras (such as the Civica Jazz Orchestra of Milan, which he has conducted at the Piccolo Teatro and Arcimboldi).

A former director of the Istituto Musicale Veneto Città di Thiene, after teaching various courses at the conservatories of Vicenza and Castelfranco Veneto, since 2022 he has held the chair of History of Jazz at the Steffani in Castelfranco, where he also teaches jazz arrangement and history of the 20th century.

As a scholar, he has been writing for years in both classical and jazz journals and websites. He edited the Italian editions of Geoff Dyer's "Still Life with Sax Case" and John Fordham's encyclopedic "Jazz." For Nuovi Equilibri in Rome, he coauthored with Franco Fayenz, "Lennie Tristano. The Misunderstood Prophet" and with Luigi Onori and Maurizio Franco, "The History of Jazz" (Hoepli Editore, 2020). In 2010 he had edited the catalog of the exhibition "The Destruction of Quadrature" on Futurist music (Vicenza, Basilica Palladiana); he is also the author of a curious American diary, "Xè pi isy draivare'l caro."