Max Bottini - Musician/Producer/Composer. After studying and teaching himself electric bass, Max started playing Jazz-Blues and Funky-Fusion with the best emergent bands in Italy.
Soon after, he began to work with the Bluesman Roberto Ciotti, the guitarist of Ginger Baker (member of the mythical “Cream” band, with Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton).
The collaboration with Roberto Ciotti lasted three years playing all around Europe and recording some pieces of the album “No More Blue”, the sound-track of the film “Marakesh Express” by Gabriele Salvatores.
Max’s passion for Jazz and experiments brought him not only to work with the most important names in Italian and International Jazz and Fusion, among them Billy Cobham and Enrico Rava, but also lead him to  collaborate with Roberto Gatto’s Quartet whom with two albums were released, the first album with the participation of Miles Davis’s guitarist, John Scofield.
At the same time, Max began working with vocalist Gegè Telesforo; they recorded two albums together also featuring artists such as Dee Dee Bridgewater and Ben Sidran. But he wasn’t satisfied to play only Jazz, so,
in the mid-nineties Massimo moved to Holland where he specialized in Arrangement and Production of  Pop and Dance Music.
He then started a new kind of activity that saw him dealing with Studio-recording as a Producer, Arranger and as a Multi-Instrumentalist.
In 2000, he came back to Italy and met the DJ Filippo Clary whom with he began a fortunate collaboration that led them, in 2001, to the creation of the band, GABIN. They produced their first record, “Gabin” released by Virgin Music Italy which included the international hit “Doo uap, doo uap” (a Nu Jazz version of the well known “It Don’t Mean a Thing” by the great Duke Ellington). It was released in 35 countries around the world.
At the end of 2001, Gabin’s project was released in the United States by the legendary electronic label Astralwerks and the piece “Doo uap, doo uap” was chosen as the sound-track of two very big advertising campaigns by Polaroid, Pantene and HBO in the U.S., and in many other countries. In 2003, Capitol Records commissioned Gabin to do a remix of the legendary song, “Fever” for the tribute album of Peggy Lee “The Best of Singles Collection”, and the song has also been included in the Henry Mancini tribute compilation “Pink Panther's Penthouse Party”.  
In 2004, Gabin released a second album, “Mr Freedom”, which boasted collaborations with exceptional artists: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Edwyn Collins and China Moses.  
At the beginning of 2005 the label Astrawerks in the U.S. brought out also this second album from Gabin and many of its songs were used in the sound-tracks of films and TV series of international importance such as “Monster In Law”(with Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda), “Fantastic Four”,  “Sex Drive”, “Notes From The Underbelly”, “The Fast And Furious:Tokyo Drift”,  “Modern Men” - theme song - Romancing The Bride,  the Tv series “Grey's Anatomy”, “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and “The Nines-Six Degrees”.
On the most recently released album of Gabin, “Third and Double”, there have been two exceptional collaborations with Chris Cornell and Flora Purim. From the same album, the song “Ready, Set, Go” has been chosen for the Promo of most current (the 13th ) edition of  “Dancing with the Stars” on ABC in the U.S.
From the very beginning, Max has performed with Gabin in an enormous variety of concerts all around Europe: in cities such as Rome, Riccione (for MTV), Italy, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Madrid, Athens, Salonika, Wroclaw (in Poland), Bergenz (in Austria at the New Jazz Festival), Istanbul, Warsaw, Vilnius (at the Interest Festival), Saint Petersburg, Ekaterimburg, Tbilisi, Prague (Palakropolis), Veszprem Festival, Bialystok, Kaliningrad (at the Don Chento Jazz Festival), Moscow, (at the B1 and at the Lounge Festival, Budapest (at the Balaton Festival), Kiev, Sofia.
Also Gabin has performed in many TV and radio programmes such as: “Parla con me” (Italian Television Rai 3 – special guest Chris Cornell), the MTV Music Awards, Live Concert on Radio Monte Carlo and Live Concert on Radio RAI 2.
After all the success with Gabin Max moved to the USA and he decided to begin  his career as music composer for films snd TV and to start the American version of  Gabin called Max Gabin.