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 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 8 - MARIO SCHIANO & GIORGIO GASLINI - HLL 101-08

1974, february 12th

This is the first meeting, and the only on record, from two great jazz master, supported from the young hopes of the italian jazz, like a Massimo Urbani, Maurizio Giammarco and Toni Formichella.

These young musicians followed the first course of jazz that Gaslini held to the conservatory of S. Cecilia of Rome, with also to Patrizia Scascitelli, Bruno Tommaso, Tommaso Vittorini and more

So, the critics tells that, between Schiano e Gaslini, there was hostility, because Schiano had recorded for first the young lions on the beginning of 1973, in your beautiful "SUD".

Really, it had happened because Mario Schiano knew the roman jazz clubs much more that the academic pianista.

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When Aldo Sinesio proposed he to recording for the HORO, Schiano proposed to meet Gaslini, own with "they" young students.

All roman jazz world said that Giorgio would not have accepted.

That day, Gaslini, was not only introduced in advance in the "Titania" studies, but in all two tracks that it recorded with Schiano, there is a clear message.

In one it's on the title "Unità", in the second it's in the beauty and in the grace of the composition "Canto Ritrovato", an ancient Lombardic song relaborated from he.

This is the first meeting, and the only on record, from two great jazz master, supported from the young hopes of the italian jazz.

Credits:

Label: HORO

Catalog#: HLL 101-8

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Released: 1974

Mario Schiano (alto sax),
Bruno Tommaso (bass),
Michele Iannaccone (drums out on B1),
Maurizio Giammarco (ten. sax on A1, A2, B2; fl on A1; p on A1),
Toni Formichella (ten. sax on A1, A2, B2),
Massimo Urbani (soprano sax on A2, B2),
Giorgio Gaslini (p. on B1, B3)

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) White Brush (Giammarco) – 14’10”
A2) Life Saver (Schiano) – 5’50”

Side B

B1) Canto Ritrovato (Gaslini) – 5’28”
B2) Lesile (Formichella) – 6’43”
B3) Unità (Gaslini) – 11’11”

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 6 - GIANCARLO BARIGOZZI - HLL 101-06

Saxophonist, flautist and clarinetist, was born in Emilia Romagna, but when he was in Italy, has always lived in Milan.

In the Seventies, he began his experience as a sound engineer, testified by wonderful recordings for various labels.

All discs recorded by him, are distinguished by the color and clarity of sound.

His contribution to music has been enormous and, as often happens, undervalued in life and discovered too late.

His approach to jazz after 1945, through the recording of Charlie Parker and Stan Getz.Five years later, a leader of the Jazz Club of Padua, listens casually and presents him, for the first time, to the Italian public.
Already in 1953 he recorded two sides for Columbia, with Eraldo Volonte, Gil Cuppini and other, but, despite the successes, for Barigozzi in our small country begin the difficulties.

In 1955 he accepts some records abroad, in France, Germany and Sweden.

Two years later, Barigozzi decides to leave for the Far East, with the italian trumpeter Mario Costalunga. For several years will play his music between Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
In 1965 he returned to Italy and performs some of his most important experiences in jazz, playing with Chet Baker, Lionel Hampton and Jack Teagarden.

Many of his recordings, among which I like to remember in addition to this, the quartet recorded in 1971 for the DIRE, "Flautissimo" and "Woman's Colours", both recorded for FONOVIDEO.

Credits:

Label: HORO

Catalog#: HLL 101-06

Format: LP

Country: Italy
Recorded at "Titania's Studio",

Milan on 1973, December

Giancarlo Barigozzi (ten sax, soprano sax, fl, bass cl),

Bruno Tommaso (bass, el. p. wurlitzer), Gianni Cazzola (drums, perc)

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Modal - 5'25"

A2) Pastoral - 4'00"

A3) Danger - 4'15"

A4) Low Tension - 4'18"

Side B

B1) Oriental Road - 4'33"

B2) Sogno del 1° Dicembre - 4'43"

B3) Notte in Galleria - 4'05"

B4) Moon Blues - 3'55"

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 5 - GIANCARLO SCHIAFFINI - HLL 101-05

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GIANCARLO SCHIAFFINI, composer-trombonist-tubist, was born in Rome in 1942 and graduated in Physics at the University of Rome in 1965. Self-taught, he appeared as soloist in the first free-jazz concerts in Italy and subsequently presented his own compositions widely in the mid 1960’s.

In 1970 he studied at Darmstadt with Stockhausen, Ligeti and Globokar and formed the contemporary chamber ensemble Nuove Forme Sonore. He also worked with Franco Evangelisti in 1972 and has since collaborated with the Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova consonanza until 1983. In 1975 he founded the Gruppo Romano di Ottoni performing Renaissance and Contemporary music. He is member of the well known Italian Instabile Orchestra.

At present he teaches at the Conservatorio “A. Casella” in l’Aquila and at the Summer Courses of Siena Jazz. He teaches also Contemporary Music, Jazz and Improvisation in Clinics and Seminars all over the World (like New York University, Monash University Melbourne, Hochschule Freiburg i. B., Acanthes-Villeneuve d’Avignon, UNEAC-Cuba).

He plays Contemporary Music, Jazz and Improvisation in concerts and International Festivals of Contemporary music and Jazz like Teatro alla Scala, Accademia di S. Cecilia, Biennale Musica di Venezia, Autunno Musicale di Como, Settembre Musica di Torino, IRCAM, Upic and Festival d’Automne (Paris), Reina Sofia (Madrid), Ars Musica (Bruxelles), Europa Jazz Festival du Mans, Jazz a Mulhouse, Tramway (Rouen), Wien Modern, Aspekte (Salzburg), Donaueschinger Musiktage, Moers, Tage fuer Neue Musik (Zurich), Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Alte Oper (Frankfurt), Berliner Philarmonie, Festival di Gibellina, FIMAV Victoriaville and New Music Concerts-Toronto (Canada), Nuova Consonanza, Bimhuis (Amsterdam), JazzYatra (India), Darmstadter Ferienkurse, Pomeriggi Musicali and Musica del nostro tempo di Milano, UNEAC (Cuba), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Lincoln Center and Hunter College (New York).

In 2000 he has been Composer in residence for the International Composers & Improvisers Forum Munich.

Mr. Schiaffini has collaborated with John Cage, Karole Armitage, Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi in various performances and works for solo trombone or tuba have been dedicated to him by Scelsi, Nono, Amman, Alandia, Dashow, Villa-Rojo, Renosto, Laneri, Guaccero.

He has performed for the National Radios in Austria, Canada, Holland, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Spain Sweden, France as well as having recorded for BMG, Curci, Cramps, Edipan, Horo, Pentaflowers, Pentaphon, Red Records, Ricordi, Vedette. His music has been published by BMG, Curci, Edipan, Ricordi.

Credits:

Label: HORO

Catalog#: HLL 101-05

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”,
Rome on 1973, June

Giancarlo Schiaffini
(trne, flgh contralto on #A4),
Massimo Urbani
(alto sax on # A1, B1, B3; soprano sax on # A3)
Maurizio Giammarco
(soprano sax on # A1, A2, B1, B3; tenor sax on # A3)
Martin Joseph

(p on # A1, A3, B1, B3)Bruno Tommaso (bass),
Michele Iannaccone (perc)

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Ouverture – 3’58”
A2) Old Fashioned – 2’37”
A3) Flip Flop – 6’45”
A4) Forma Vaga – 2’23”



Side B

B1) Chiaroscuro – 5’25”
B2) Ai Tempi Loro – 4’13”
B3) Suoni A Confronto – 9’00”

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”

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).

JAZZ A CONFRONTO 1 - BALANÇO - HORO HLL 101-1

Critics have defined Irio De Paula as “the most fascinating Brazilian guitarist” and indeed, throughout his log carreer (at only 6 years old, was already played in a band with his brothers and broadcast on the radio in Rio), he has played with the best musicians of his country: Paulo Moura, Baden Powell, Rauzinho, Djalma Ferreira, Juarez , and many others, from Astrud Gilberto to Chico Buarque.

He has recorded over 60 CDs and LPs, some solo and some with artists such as Sal Nistico, Steve Grossman, Dannie Richmond, Archie Shepp, Don Pullen, Ray Mantilla, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Franco D’andrea, and many others.

In the 1970s, Irio De Paula toured Europe with the brazilian singer Elza Soares, and after taking part in the Pescara jazz Festival with his own trio, he decided to stay and reside in Italy.

Credits:

Label: HORO

Catalog#: HLL 101-1

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Recorded at “Titania’s Studio”, Rome on 1972, December

Irio De Paula (g), Mandrake (perc),

Giorgio Rosciglione (bass), Afonso Vieira (drums, perc)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Mato Grosso – 5’15”
A2) Astrud – 3’35”
A3) Nos Quatro – 11’40”

Side B

B1) Sbrogue – 6’15”
B2) Saudade – 4’25”
B3) Nao Quero Nem Saber 5’35”
B4) Ja Era