Giulio Scianatico is a double bassist born in Bari in 1996 and now based in Rome. He has no album under his own name; his checkable recorded career, which starts in 2018, is that of a sideman and band member, and it runs through seven releases on independent labels: Piero Dotti's Never Too Late (2018), Enrico Le Noci's Social Music (2019), the Barienses Jazz Collective's Sofia (2020), Gabriele Mastropasqua's Jazzed-up! (2021), Alessandro Campobasso's The Imaginary Roads (2022), Wasted Generation's Introducing Wasted Generation (2023) and Bruno Montrone's Unaware Beauty (2024). Three of these are itemized on Discogs; the other four are documented by the labels and the jazz press.

His own CV, published on the Borgo in Jazz festival's site, says he has played music since the age of 11 and studied at Bari's Il Pentagramma jazz school from 2007 to 2016 and at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory in Bari. It lists a bachelor's degree in jazz double bass from the Siena Jazz University in 2021, taken with honors, and a master's in the same field under way when the CV was posted. Italian press coverage from 2026 adds training at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. The CV also names two scholarship workshops: Umbria Jazz Clinics (a scholarship at Berklee College of Music in Boston) and Fara Jazz (a scholarship at the Collective School in New York). It says that in New York he studied and performed with Doug Weiss, Aaron Goldberg, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Bernstein, Greg Hutchinson, David Wong, Rodney Green, Sean Conly and Joe Sanders. These are self-reported study credits, not recording credits.

His first recording listed on his CV is a 2013 album by the New Generation 5tet, A Viva Voce, made when he was about 17. The recordings that can be checked start in 2018 with the vocalist Piero Dotti's Never Too Late, a standards record on the fo(u)r Edition label with pianist Bruno Montrone and drummer Antonio Ninni. The next year came Social Music (A.MA Records, released July 2019), the debut of the Martina Franca guitarist Enrico Le Noci, recorded in Bari in January 2019 with pianist Gadi Lehavi, trumpeter Felix Rossy and drummer Andrea Niccolai. In its September 2019 issue Musica Jazz reviewed the record and singled out the timing and tone of the group's second Puglian, the Bari-born bassist, and called him one to watch with a bright future. In 2020 he was the bassist of the Bari group Barienses Jazz Collective, whose first studio album, Sofia (Abeat Records), won the Musica di Sofia prize.

The Discogs-verified stretch follows. On Gabriele Mastropasqua's Jazzed-up! (Dodicilune, 2021), a large-ensemble record directed by guitarist Roberto Spadoni, he is credited on double bass and electric bass alongside reed players including Gaetano Partipilo and Achille Succi. On Alessandro Campobasso's The Imaginary Roads (GleAM Records, June 18, 2022) he plays in a drummer-led quartet with saxophonists Luigi Di Nunzio and Pasquale Calò and pianist Eugenio Macchia, on music inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Then came Wasted Generation, the Rome quintet of trumpeter Iacopo Teolis, alto saxophonist Gabriel Marciano, pianist Vittorio Solimene, Scianatico and drummer Cesare Mangiocavallo. Introducing Wasted Generation (GleAM Records, May 26, 2023) was produced by the American bassist Joe Sanders and recorded at Cicaleto Recording Studio in Arezzo. All About Jazz reviewed it on August 17, 2023, describing a young band focused on free contemporary jazz, melodic exploration and an avant-garde approach to improvisation, and noting Scianatico's walking bass on "Ce Stà er Tramonto" and his own "VU."

Unaware Beauty (A.MA Records, March 29, 2024) is the debut of pianist Bruno Montrone, in a trio with Scianatico and the American drummer Joe Farnsworth, with alto saxophonist Sarah Hanahan on two tracks and vocalist Serena Grittani on two others. It was recorded at the MAST music academy studio on July 24 and 25, 2023. All About Jazz's December 31, 2024 review of the record describes Scianatico as a member of Wasted Generation.

Live, his calendar since 2024 shows a bassist working in Rome and Puglia in several settings. On January 28, 2024 he played the Geena club in Latina in a trio with pianist Domenico Sanna and drummer Marco Valeri, and in late September 2024 Sardinian jazz-club listings billed Sanna's tour "Music Is the Answer" as Sanna featuring Scianatico and drummer Greg Hutchinson; the studio album of that name, released September 4, 2024 on Fresh Sound New Talent, carries Ameen Saleem on bass, so it is not among his recordings. In May 2025 he played the Duke Jazz Club in Bari in guitarist Alberto Parmegiani's Millennium Quartet with Montrone and Mangiocavallo, previewing Parmegiani's A Stream of Consciousness; Sanna had been announced on piano and was replaced by Montrone. On June 9, 2025 he was the bassist in "Ornettology," a quartet with trumpeter Fabrizio Bosso, alto saxophonist Rosario Giuliani and drummer Sasha Mashin, honoring Ornette Coleman on the tenth anniversary of his death at Rome's Casa del Jazz. On December 5, 2025 he and trombonist Giacomo Serino played a duo set at Spazio Recherche in Rome within the Nuova Generazione Jazz 2025 program for musicians under 35, and on April 10, 2026 he was in the Scannapieco-Geremia quintet (trumpeter Antonio Scannapieco, tenor saxophonist Pasquale Geremia, pianist Guglielmo Santimone, drummer Angelo Gregorio) at the Duke Jazz Club in Bari.

His CV also lists festival appearances including Umbria Jazz (2019), JazzMi (2019 and 2020), Jazz in de Gracht in the Netherlands (2019), Macerata Jazz (2021) and Gaeta Jazz (2022), and names among the musicians he has played with Seamus Blake, Jorge Rossy, Aaron Goldberg, Ali Jackson, Stjepko Gut, Mark Sherman, Thomas Kirkpatrick, Gadi Lehavi and Joe Farnsworth. As with the study credits, these are his own statements.

Scianatico works in two registers, and the record shows both. On Bruno Montrone's trio date and the Piero Dotti and Enrico Le Noci records he is a straight-ahead bassist, in the tradition that Le Noci's label describes as jazz from a bygone Blue Note era; in Wasted Generation he plays in a collectively written, freer contemporary idiom, and in the Ornettology quartet he takes on the repertoire of Ornette Coleman. His CV names New York study with the bassists Doug Weiss, David Wong and Sean Conly, and the American drummers he has recorded or toured with, Joe Farnsworth and Greg Hutchinson, both come out of the mainstream and post-bop tradition. His jazz identity is not in doubt: the four of his releases that Discogs lists all carry the Jazz genre tag, and his training runs through jazz schools and jazz-department degrees from Bari to Siena to Amsterdam.