HORO 34 - OSCAR VALDAMBRINI & DINO PIANA - HLL 101-34

  

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-34
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded in June 1976, Rome

Oscar Valdambrini (tp, flgh),
Dino Piana (tbn),
Mario Midana, Ennio Gabbi (tbns),
Biagio Marullo (bass tbn),
Enrico Pieranunzi (p),
Bruno Tommaso (bass),
Roberto Podio (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side One

A1) No Easy - 6'16"
A2) Un Signore Chiamato Blues - 5'06"
A3) Dedica - 4'32"
A4) Blue Generation - 3'32"

Side Two

B1) Three and Four - 6'25"
B2) Il Più che Lento - 5'33"
B3) Giugno 1976 - 5'22"

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"

HORO 24 - ENRICO PIERANUNZI - HLL 101-24

So.

Until some time ago, my wishlist of HLL, Jazz A Confronto series, was blocked.

I was also thinking about starting to publish, in this same blog, the records of the other two series of HORO, the HZ and the HDP, where Aldo Sinesio recorded, as rare documents that remained over time, musicians like these: Gil Evans, Don Pullen, George Adams, Dave Burrell, Stafford James, Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, Ran Blake, David Murray, Sam Rivers, Roy Haynes, Karl Berger, Martial Solal, M.E.V, etc.

Then, with the help of Alessandro, musician and jazz's fan, I had the opportunity to hear two chapters missing in my collection, and also to shorten my wish list, and I'm here.

The first one that I share with you, is the Jazz A Confronto n° 24.

Enrico Pieranunzi six years

According to Enrico Pieranunzi discography, compiled by Maurizio Franco and published in the Musica Jazz magazine, this is the first LP recorded by the roman pianist as a leader.

This discography, including his records only until 1993, is the most complete documentation on the recordings of the first Pieranunzi.

Thanks again to Alessandro, who also sent me the volume No. 4 of this legendary series that I'll put online soon, I wish to say thanks to Steve Williams, collaborator to http://www.ukvibe.org/, and my greatest supporter since the beginning of this project.

Credits:

Label: HORO

Catalog#: HLL 101-24

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Recorded in Rome, between June 21 and June 30, 1975
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Enrico Pieranunzi (p),

Bruno Tommaso (bass), Ole Jorgensen (drums)

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Piece for Joan - 4'59"

A2) After You - 5'18"

A3) Polychrome - 4'22"

A4) Blues Smiles - 5'04"

Enrico with his father, Alvaro Pieranunzi,

one of the pioneers of jazz in Italy.
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Side B

B1) Long Drink - 3'34"

B2) Soul Day - 6'58"

B3) Ragnhild - 3'52"

B4) Camping 72 - 6'28"

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JAZZ A CONFRONTO 20 - KENNY CLARKE - HLL 101-20

Kenny Clarke (born Kenneth Clarke Spearman, later aka, Liaqat Ali Salaam, on January 9, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-died January 26, 1985 in Paris, France) was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940's, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop, which in turn lead to modern jazz. He is credited with creating the modern role of the ride cymbal as the primary timekeeper.

Before, drummers kept time on the high-hat and snare drum (”digging coal”, Clarke called it) with heavy support from the bass drum. With Clarke time was played on the cymbal and the bass and snare were used more for punctuation. This led to a much more relaxed style of drumming. From this point more and more rhythms and poly-rhythms are made possible. For this, “every drummer” Ed Thigpen said, “owes him a debt of gratitude.” Clarke was nicknamed “Klook” or “Klook-mop” for the style he innovated.

Clarke was a founder member of the Modern Jazz Quartet (as the Milt Jackson Quartet) in 1951 and also participated in many recording sessions as house drummer for Savoy Records. Connie Kay took his place in the MJQ in 1955 and from 1956 Clarke was resident in France where he regularly worked with visiting American musicians in Paris, in particular forming a working trio, known as “The Bosses”, with Bud Powell and Pierre Michelot.

Later in 1961, with Belgian pianist Francy Boland he formed a regular big band featuring leading European and ex-patriate American musicians, including among many others, Johnny Griffin and Ronnie Scott on tenor saxes. The big band, which had been the idea of Italian producer Gigi Campi, lasted for eleven years.

source AAJ

Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-20
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at "Titania Studios", Rome 1975, March 3

Cicci Santucci (tp), Enzo Scoppa (tenor sax),
Enrico Pieranunzi (piano), Roberto Della Grotta (bass),
Kenny Clarke (drums)

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Close The Door - 4'19"
A2) I Am Louis Armstrong - 3'36"
A3) Big Bang - 5'35"
A4) Jay Jay - 5'26"

Side B

B1) Waiting - 6'34"
B2) New April - 3'48"
B3) Nudibranco - 3'54"
B4) Via Sistina - 3'39"

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 17 - JAC'S ANTHOLOGY - HLL 101-17

In this anthology, published by Aldo Sinesio at the middle of the the story of HORO, we find some alternative path of previous volumes, such as Johnny Griffin and Sal Nistico, one "anticipation", because this was the track of Steve Grossman, on the date which this collection was put on the market, and a curious experiment.

Three of these pieces all came out of the same session, in which Franco Ambrosetti's quartet was recording, but in this case the various components of the quartet meved into a freer pattern, breaking the structure of the group, creating small nuclei.

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-17
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded in Rome, 1974/1975

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) The Pasta Parade - 8'38"
Johnny Griffin (ten sax),
Franco D'Andrea (p), Giovanni Tommaso (bass), Bruno Biriaco (drums)
1974, April 7

A2) Paravento - 2'07"
Daniel Humair (drums & vocal)
1974, April 28

A3) Mariamar - 10'10"
Sal Nistico (ten sax),
Irio De Paula (g), Enrico Pieranunzi (p), Alessio Urso (bass), Afonso Vieira (drums)
1975, February 16

Side B

B1) Untitled - 10'47"
Steve Grossman (soprano sax, ten. sax),
Irio De Paula (g), Alessio Urso (g), Afonso Vieira (drums), Nilton Castro (perc)
1974, June 4

B2) Baje - 3'19"
Jasper Van't Hof (p)
1974, April 28

B3) Ashe Of Space - 5'40"
Franco Ambrosetti (flgh), J.F. Jenny-Clark (bass)
1974, April 28

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 16 - SAL NISTICO - HLL 101-16

Sal Nistico, born Salvatore Nistico 2 April 1938 in Syracuse (New York), died 3 March 1991 in Berne, Switzerland, was a jazz tenor saxophonist associated for many years in the mid-'60s with Woody Herman's Herd.


He started playing alto sax, switching to tenor in 1956 and briefly played baritone sax. In 1965, he joined Count Basie but returned on many occasions to play with Herman. He also played with Nat Adderley, Don Ellis, Stan Tracey, Chuck Mangione and Buddy Rich.

While not a well-known public figure, he was highly respected by his fellow tenor sax players as a “musicians' musician”. Sal's solo work contrasts his big band work. The solo work is more bebop oriented, as heard on the Heavyweights recordings.

Source www.allaboutjazz.com

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Credits:

Label: HORO
Catalog#: HLL 101-16
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”,
Rome on 1975, February 2

Sal Nistico (tenor sax),
Irio De Paula (g),
Enrico Pieranunzi (p),
Alessio Urso (bass), Afonso Vieira (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A
A1) Maracanà - 10'41"
A2) For You - 4'36"
A3) New April - 6'19"

Side B
B1) Segundo - 8'48"
B2) Bleu Marine - 6'28"
B3) Garotinho - 5'51"

Note:
the stickers on the label is of the Radio télévision belge de la communauté française, but I don't have info about Don Mercier (is an author, is a DJ?)

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 2 - MARCELLO ROSA - HLL 101-02

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Marcello Rosa is a Trombone player, composer, arranger.


He starts off at age five studying piano, then concentrates on classical guitar.
Moreover he discovers Jazz and meets his music soulmate Trombone.
His first official debut was in 1954.

Credits:

Label: HORO

Catalog#: HLL 101-2

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Recorded: 1973, January
At “Titania Studio”

Produced by Aldo Sinesio

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Don (M. Rosa) – 4’35”
A2) Blues For The King (M. Rosa) – 3’00”
Marcello Rosa, Dino Piana, Alberto Collatina, Aldo Josue (trnes), Giancarlo Schiaffini (bass trne), Enrico Pieranunzi (p), Bruno Tommaso (bass), Alex Serra (perc), Massimo Rocci (perc., drums)

A3) Folk Song (G. Schiaffini) – 3’15”
Giancarlo Schiaffini (contralto flgh), Marcello Rosa (trne, tuba),
Enrico Pieranunzi (p),Gianni Foccia (el. bass), Massimo Rocci (drums)

A4) Soul Food (M. Rosa) – 3’48”
Marcello Rosa, Dino Piana, Alberto Collatina, Aldo Josue (trnes),

Giancarlo Schiaffini (bass trne), Puccio Sboto (vib), Enrico Pieranunzi (p), Bruno Tommaso (bass), Alex Serra (perc), Massimo Rocci (perc., drums)

Side B

B1) Toledo (M. Rosa) – 7’15”
Marcello Rosa, Giancarlo Schiaffini (trnes), Enrico Pieranunzi (p),
Gianni Foccia (el. bass), Massimo Rocci (drums)

B2) Rosa Minore (A. Pieranunzi) – 3’35”
Enrico Pieranunzi (p),
Gianni Foccia (el. bass), Massimo Rocci (drums)

B3) Hello Satch (M. Rosa) – 4’08”
B4) Walking Down Lexington Avenue (M. Rosa) – 2’10”
Marcello Rosa, Lucio Capobianco, Alberto Collatina, Aldo Josue (trnes),

Giancarlo Schiaffini (bass trne, tuba), Enrico Pieranunzi (p),

Roberto Della Grotta (el. bass), Massimo Rocci (drums).