Rare Italian Jazz: Larry Nocella & Dannie Richmond: Everything Happens to Me (1980)

A young italian artist, Larry Nocella, died only 40 in 1989, here in a rare album, recorded just 30 years ago with a USA trio leaded by Dannie Richmond, the drummer well known for his collaboration with Charles Mingus.

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Everything Happens To Me
(megaupload)
Red Record VPA 167
Recorded november 1980
at "Music Center" Bologna

Larry Nocella: tenor sax
Dannie Richmond: drums
Cameron Brown: bass
Bob Neloms: piano


Side A
1. Rose (Neloms - Nocella) 7.57
2. Central Park West (J. Coltrane) 6.46
3. Along Come Betty (B. Golson) 5.41



Side B
1. Nakatini Serenade (C. Massey) 7.00
2. Everything Happens to Me (M. Dennis) 8.00
3. The Days of Wine and Roses (H. Mancini) 5.40

You can also listen to him in a previous post dedicated to the first album of the italian singer Tiziana Ghiglioni (here)

Jazz Live in Europe: Rita Marcotulli & Andy Sheppard at JazzFest in Bonn 2010

It's not the first time that the italian pianist Rita Marcotulli and the british saxophonist Andy Sheppard play together.

Rita Marcotulli & Andy Sheppard in Turin (Italy 2009)

Recently they had a very appreciated performance at the JAZZFEST in Bonn the last june 6.

You can enjoy it here in a private recording of good quality.

Rita Marcotulli & Andy Sheppard in Bonn 2010

(cover by jazzfan37)

Rita Marcotulli & Andy Sheppard

Kapelle des Collegium Leoninum, Jazzfest Bonn (Germany)

6th June 2010

Rita Marcotulli, p

Andy Sheppard, ss, ts

setlist:

01 Lullaby For Igor 08:49

02 G Continue 09:46

03 Us & Them 18:38

04 Le Main d'Alice 08:59

LINK

A rare Live album to remember Gianni Basso (1931-2009)

A very rare album to remember the italian tenor saxophonist Gianni Basso, who died 78, the 17th august 2009.

He was one of the fathers of italian modern jazz, with the trumpet player Oscar Valdambrini was the leader of the Basso-Valdambrini quintet.

the first italian group of modern jazz known and appreciated also out of Italy.

Forty years ago, june 9, 1970, with a quartet composed by some of the best italian jazz players, he had a concert in Milan at Centro Pirelli. The tapes of that performance were forgotten for years. In 1996 a limited edition (500 CD and 500 LP) were issued form the original tapes.


In 2009 a new limited edition was issued with the same numbers.

Label: Ed. ARCOPHON
esclusivo per Pirelli
Catalog#: AP 1
Format: LP
Country: Italy
Released: 1970

Gianni Basso (tenor sax),
Renato Sellani (piano),
Giorgio Azzolini (bass),
Gilberto “GIL” Cuppini (drums)


Tracklisting:

A1) Reachin’ fourth (McCoy Tyner) – 9’40”
A2) Sweet Little Maia (Jimmy Garrison) - 7’10”
A3) Oleo (Sonny Rollins) - 7’35”

B1) Gingerbread Boy (Jimmy Heath) - 9’45”
B2) Naima (John Coltrane) - 3’45”
B3) So What (Miles Davis) - 11’43”


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Italian Jazz Live: Enrico Rava - E lucevan le stelle - Vicenza (Italy) 1994

The well known italian trumpet jazz player Enrico Rava & his Group in concert at the historic Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza (Italy) in June 1994 playing a romanza from the italian opera by Giacomo Puccini "Tosca".

Players list:

Enrico Rava (tp)
Richard Galliano: (ac)
Battista Lena (g)
Enzo Pietropaoli (b)
Daniel Humair (d)
string session directed by Bruno Tommaso

Rare Italian Jazz: Tiziana Ghiglioni: Lonely Woman (1981)

Tiziana Ghiglioni is the best italian jazz singer and in her many years of activity she worked with many important jazz players as Kenny Drew, N.H.O. Pedersen, Mal Waldron, Steve Lacy, Tony Oxley, Charlie Mariano, Kenny Clarke, Aldo Romano, P. Bley, Lee Konitz, Tony Scott, ecc.
Here we present her first album: Lonely Woman (1981) never reissued in CD.

LONELY WOMAN (Dischi della Quercia Q28014)
Tiziana Ghiglioni Jazz Singer
Milano 1981

Larry Nocella (sax t.)
Riccardo Zegna (p)
Piero Leveratto (bs)
Luigi Bonafede (drm)

Side A (new link)
Lonely Woman
Nostalgia in Time Square
Medley:
a. Have You Met Miss Jones
b. The Days of Wine and Roses
c. Nice Work If You Can Get It

Side B (new Link)
'Round About Midnight
You've Changed
Day Dream
Out of Nowhere

In the following video we can see her in the title track of the album with the same musicians except for Larry Nocella replaced by Pietro Tonolo

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For more informations see:

Tiziana Ghiglioni on Myspace

GEROVIJAZZ (in italian)

Jazz Live in Europe: Enrico Rava quintet at Umbria Jazz 2001 Perugia (Italy)

Two of the best italian trumpet players: Enrico Rava e Paolo Fresu with Stefano Bollani, one of the most appreciate pianists in Europe and not only, Enzo Pietropaoli (bs), Roberto Gatto (drm) playing together at Umbria Jazz 2001.
One extraordinary concert that you can see here entirely. About fifty minutes of ecxiting music played by several well-known, experienced Italian jazz musicians.

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WARSAW JAZZ JAMBOREE First breach in Iron Curtain

In Eastern Bloc countries, during the Cold War, Jazz represented a form of harmless “dissent” standed by regime and had a particular diffusion in Poland, also for the less oppression due to the arrival to the power of Edward Gierek in 1970.

Polish Jazz community was very alive. In 1966 began her publications magazine Jazz Forum (also in English and German) very appreciated and widspread abroad, and still today active.

In those years rised also Jamboree International Jazz Festival, which opened the doors to many important western musicians and fans coming from other Eastern countries and also from near Scandinavia.

Every Year Warsaw turned into a perky international community of young people, a real music melting pot.

Many concerts were published on LP by MUZA Polish editions.

In 1977 italian pianist Guido Manusardi with his quartet was there and his performance was published in one LP

with those of two other pianists: the hungarian Gusztav Csik and the japanese Yosuke Yamashita.

SIDE A

Planetarium

Guido Manusardi quartet

Pier Francesco Guidi - ts, ss

Guido Manusardi - p

Lorenzo Terzano - b

Gianni Cazzola - dr

SIDE B

1. Sweet Georgia Brown

Fogarasi -Csik trio

Gusztav Csik - p

Janos Fogarasi - org

Imre Koeszegi - dr

2. Umbrella - Dance

Yosuke Yamashita trio

Akira Sakata - as

Yosuke Yamashita - p

Shota Koyama - dr

In next posts I'll put new albums of other editions