JAZZ A CONFRONTO 10 - JOHNNY GRIFFIN - HLL 101-10

The volume n 10 of Jazz A Confronto series, by Johnny Griffin, is for now the only one that has been reissued on CD, thanks to collaboration between HORO and the Atomic Jazz. The CD is available at many sites, as JAZZLOFT, amazon.ca, Worlds Records and more. Precisely for this reason, you will not find this recording on shared on this blog, but I gladly make you hear the first track, MUSIC INN BLUES, dedicated to one of the historic jazz clubs in Rome. If you like this, and how it would be possible otherwise, buy it! In addition, the reissue contains “The Pasta Parade”, a tune based on Gershwin’s “Strike Up the Band”, not included in the original vinyl edition, but included in the anthology of unreleased and alternative tracks, published in Jazz A Confronto 17.

 

Johnny Griffin - Jazz A Confronto #10

Credits: 

 Label: HORO Catalog#: HLL 101-10 

Format: LP 

Country: Italy 

 Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”, Rome on 1974, April 7 

 Johnny Griffin (ten sax), Franco D'Andrea (p), Giovanni Tommaso (bass), Bruno Biriaco (drums)

  Tracklisting: 

 Side A 

 A1) Music Inn Blues - 8'44" 

A2) For The Love Of - 8'07"

 

Side B 

 B1) Always Forever - 7'11" 

B2) Keep Going - 12'02

 

HORO 4 - FRANK ROSOLINO - HLL 101-04

Another missing records is added to this discography dedicated to Aldo Sinesio's label, always thanks to Alessandro, who wanted to share a little piece of his passion with us.

Frank Rosolino - August 20, 1926, Detroit, Michigan / November 26, 1978, Los Angeles, California - will be remembered and respected throughout the contemporary jazz world for his mastery of the trombone, his uncanny ability to fit and work successfully with a wide range of musical ideas, and perhaps last but not entirely forgotten, his wit and capacity for comic entertainment. There has seldom been a time when any single aspect of this amazingly complex individual was submerged for any great length of time. He was always the superb performer, upfront individually as a musician or commercially as an entertainer.

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Credits:

Label: HORO

Catalog#: HLL 101-04

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Recorded at “Junior Studio”,

Rome on 1973, May

Frank Rosolino (trombone), Franco D'Andrea (p),

Bruno Tommaso (bass), Bruno Biriaco (drums)

Guest:

Gianni Basso (tenor sax) on track A2,

Enrico Pieranunzi replace F. D'Andrea on track B4

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Waltz for Roma - 8'19"

A2) Alex - 7'32"

A3) Free for All - 8'02"

Side B

B1) Blue Daniel - 6'47"

B2) Close the Door - 4'59"

B3) Skylab - 6'28"

B4) Toledo - 4'50"

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 9 - RENATO SELLANI - HLL 101-09

Renato Sellani was born in Senigallia (Ancona) in 1927.
At age 12 he began playing the organ in the church of his country, a few years later began studying the piano as an autodidact.
In 1950 he moved to Rome, host of Umberto Cesàri which receives the fundamental teachings.
Later, at the invitation of Franco Cerri, he moved to Milan where in September 1958, joined the legendary group "Basso & Valdambrini", which will work with up to 1971.
Also in '58 has in tourné with Lee Konitz, then with Chet Baker, with whom he recorded in 1959.
In 1961 he participated in three recordings of saxophonist and flutist Buddy Collette.
In his career he has beautifully accompanied famous singers, like Nicola Arigliano, Lilian Terry, Renata Mauro, Helen Merrill, Ginger Rogers, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday also.

His piano is present in many important pages of Italian jazz, recorded on vinyl, even if, in his name, he has recorded "only" a dozen historical records.
Among these I remember the first “Un Pianoforte per Due Innamorati” (1963), the first in piano solo, which opened the label DIRE (1969), the beautiful "Tizia", still in piano solo (1976) and the duet with Gianni Basso (1977)

In recent years, thanks to Paolo Piangiarelly of Philology, he has recorded another thirty important records, reworking some masterpieces of Italian songs in a unique way, elegant, rich in emotion and silence as his music.
For the same label he has recorded as co-leader with Lee Konitz, Tony Scott, Phil Woods, Irio De Paula, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Enrico Rava, Gianni Basso, Franco D’Andrea, Fabrizio Bosso, Barbara Casini and the rising stars Gianluca Petrella, Francesco Cafisio and Michela Lombardi, with whom he recorded two beautiful tributes to Chet Baker.

Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-9
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”,
Rome on 1974, March 7

Renato Sellani (p),
Bruno Tommaso (bass), Bruno Biriaco (drums),
Gianni Basso (ten sax)

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Autoritratto – 4’50”
A2) Sembrerebbe Quasi Festa – 4’34”
A3) Portrait of July – 3’05”
A4) Illimani – 4’36”
A5) Attesa – 3’12”



Side B

B1) Inquieto – 3’25”
B2) Patetico – 4’30”
B3) Long Mary – 4’50”
B4) Gres Time – 3’46”
B5) La Mia Vita – 2’52”

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 3 - GIANNI BASSO - HLL 101-03

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Gianni Basso can be unequivocally regarded as one of the most significant historical figures of Italian jazz.

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His music shows how to play in the tradition, without ignoring the force of the evolution of jazz, and without rejecting the most advanced experiences free, as evidenced by the music of this LP, recorded for Aldo Sinesio in Rome, february 1973.

Listen "Bloom" and "LA VALLE DELL’AMORE," the two tracks of Bruno Tommaso present in both LPs, or the free track "ALEX", and then tell me if this giant of jazz hasn’t reinvented everything, from avant-garde to the mainstream.

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Another example of his great music is documented on "HIT" , recorded in Milan two years later, available now at Carosello-Jazz from Italy Blog, where Gianni engages, for the first time, the soprano sax.

Born in Asti in '31, his professional activity began in Belgium in 1946, with the militancy within the Raoul Falsan Big Band, where he distinguished as clarinetist and tenor sax.

At the same time as playing with different musicians in Europe and U.S., especially in Germany and Austria.
In '50 Basso leaves the Falsan Orchestra and returns in Italy, where he founded along with Oscar Valdambrini, the prestigious "Basso-Valdambrini Quintet", a very special combo, leader of italian jazz for many years .

the prestigious "Basso-Valdambrini Quintet"

During his long and varied career, Gianni Basso has collaborated with extraordinary artists, the most representative of the jazz of all time, from Billie Holiday to Lionel Hampton, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, Joe Venuti, Art Farmer, Johnny Griffin, Zoot Sims, Buddy Colette, beyond to having an intense record activity, both as leader and as a sideman.

Of particular importance is the militancy located in some of the most prestigious international orchestras: as the big bands of Maynard Ferguson, Kenny Clarke / Boland Francis, Thad Jones, Lalo Schifrin and more.
In the late '70s he founded the band Saxes Machine and subsequently fronted the Gianni Basso Big Band.

In his later years, he played with some of the rising stars of jazz, as Fabrizio Bosso and Andrea Pozza, recording his unique music for Philology, by Paolo Piangiarelli.

Credits:

Label: HORO

Catalog#: HLL 101-03

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Released: 1973, February
At “Titania Studio”

Produced by Aldo Sinesio

Gianni Basso (tenor sax), Franco D’Andrea (p),
Bruno Tommaso (bass), Bruno Biriaco (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Alex – 7’26”
A2) Siria – 4’05”
A3) Horse – 7’23”



Side B

B1) Bloom – 5’26”
B2) Ocean – 4’32”
B3) La Valle Dell’Amore – 6’55”
B4) Panarea – 3’16”