CADMO & Massimo Urbani - Flying over Ortobene mount on July Seventy-seven

I CADMO born in Alghero (Sassari, Sardinia) in 1973 as a quintet which soon became a trio, consisting of Riccardo Lai on electric bass and Mario Paliano on drums, as well Antonello Salis on piano and Hammond organ.

I CADMO are remembered as one of the most original of the Italian scene of those years, capable of blending progressive rock with free jazz and traditional music from Sardinia.

In 1975 the three moved to Rome, where they performed at the Music Inn, the most important jazz club in town, and begin to come into contact with the musicians of the Roman scene.

In the same year i CADMO recorded in the studio the first of their two albums, entitled "Boomerang."
In 1975 i CADMO cooperate with Massimo Urbani, Maurizio Giammarco, Tommaso Vittorini, Enzo Pietropaoli and Roberto Gatto, and, in the same year, recorded their second album, "Flying over Ortobene mount on July Seventy-seven" and known in Rome Lester Bowie.

This meeting will deeply mark the group.

Later, played with CADMO also Sandro Satta and Danilo Terenzi.

Credits:

Label: Edizioni Dell'Isola

Catalog#: EIJ 2026

Format: LP

Country: Italy
Recorded at Rome on 1978

Antonello Salis (p),

Riccardo Lai (bass), Mario Paliano (drums)

special guest

Massimo Urbani (alto sax on #B2)

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Julius Mountain's

A2) Flying over Ortobene mount on July Seventy-seven

Side B

B1) Linea AZ

B2) Giuggiole

Paolo Fresu Quintet - Live at Lugano, 1989

On July 23, 1988 Paolo Fresu quintet performs with extraordinary success at the Festival Jazz Montpellier organized by the European Broadcasting Union (U.E.R), representing Radiouno.

The disc recorded on that occasion, and published by SPLASC (H), he was named Record of the Year 1990 by the Italian jazz critics unanimous.

About a year later, at Lugano, the same line up played a long concert, divided in two sets, in front of an enthusiastic audience, enjoying the same success.
But this live, was not published.

This is the recording of the first set, a long suites comprising seven songs performed without interruption, recorded by Sanzio Chiesa of Italian Switzerland Radio, where we find four of these tracks of the Montpellier’s performance, but with different assembling.

This live is circulated only in 1992, enclosed to Blu Jazz magazine n°25, directed by Adrian Mazzoletti.

Credits:

Label: BLU JAZZ

Catalog#: BJ027

Format: CD

Country: Italy

Released: 1992

Paolo Fresu (tp, flgh),
Tino Tracanna (ten sax, soprano sax), Roberto Cipelli (p),
Attilio Zanchi (bass), Ettore Fioravanti (drums)


Tracklisting CD:

1) Good Bye Pork Pie Hat – 4’45”
2) Atipico Blues – 6’45”
3) In Parte Senz’Arte – 10’45”
4) Pour Une Femme – 8’35”
5) Round About Midnight – 0’30”
6) Ostinato – 7’30”
7) Blues For You – 6’10”

ART STUDIO - Paralisi - 1981

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1974 – This group initiated their activities playing regulary at the Swing Club among other clubs in Turin.

1975 – They held performances at the 6th Memorial Lama; Sordini, Actis Dato, and Lodati resided in Paris for several months recording at Radio France Studios and giving concerts with French musicians.

1976 – A numbers of concerts were given on behalf of the Italian Cultural Associations and Public Entities.

1977 – In February the LP “Art Studio” was cut; In Milan the Festival at Ravizza Park was held and they participated ib the “Piemont Jazz” Festival tour travelling throughout this region.

1978 – In April the LP “Diagnosi” was cut; concerts were given in Paris that May at the Modern Art Gallery, Radio House and the Totem Club; in November they participated in “Jazz Encounters” within the Viottiano Festival in Vercelli along with the Sam River and Chet Baker groups.

1979 – Concerts in Holland and the wellknown Bim Huis of Amsterdam was among them; the International Jazz Festival at Reggio Emilia; the 6th Jazz Festival at Foggia; several concerts in France (Chatenay – Villedieu – Bedfort) along with others in Rome, Padova, Turin.

1980 – They participated in the Iternational Jazz Festival at Padova; the “Italian Avantgarde Jazz Travels” at Brescia; the 2nd Sens Music Meeting in France (an avant-garde festival featuring groups from all over Europe).

1981 – Along with their usual concerts in clubs throughout Italy was the Italian Jazz Festival at Palmi; “Punti Verdi” at Turin; concerts in Paris at Dunois Theatre; and in December the third LP “Paralisi” was cut.

Recordings:
“Art Studio” Drums 2015, February 1977
“Diagnosi” CMC Records 101, April 1978
“Paralisi” CMC Records 102, December 1981

"Presagio" CMC Records 103, January 1984

"Pensieri" CMC Records 104, November 1985

Credits:

Label: CMC Records

Catalog#: CMC 102

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Released: 1981

Carlo Actis Dato (tenor and baritone saxes)
Claudio Lodati (guitar)
Enrico Fazio (string bass)
Fiorenzo Sordini (drums, vibes, percussion)

Special guest
Irene Robbins (vocals, piano)


Tracklisting:

Side 1

1) ACQUARIO – 15’15”
a) AB-ABC-AB-ABC-D

b) Due x Due
c) Gli Scarafaggi

2) ARIETE – 5’36”
a) La Sfinge
b) Gli Acari

Side 2

1) I MOSCERINI - 4'30"

2) B.C. – 8’04”
3) PRESAGIO – 4’19”

Mario Schiano - Concerto della Statale - 1975

This live concert, recorded 30 november 1975, documents the third evening of the exhibition NUOVE TENDENZE DEL JAZZ ITALIANO - news trends of italian jazz - promoted by the student movement of the Statale University of Milan, with the artistic production of Sergio Veschi, the “future” producer of Red Record.

In the other evenings have played on the stage Patrizia Scascitelli, Guido Mazzon, i Cadmo, Claudio Lo Cascio, O.M.C.I., Gaetano Liguori, Giorgio Gaslini and others.

Also the other two recordings will be published on this blog.

« Born in Naples, after beginning his career in his hometown’s dance halls, Mario Schiano pioneered free jazz in italy at the very beginning of the Sixties, and has been a leading figure on the italian music scene since the beginnings of the Gruppo Romano Free Jazz in 1966. His musical production covers an unusually broad range, from free improvisation to traditional Neapolitan songs, the unyfing factors being his energy, inquisitive spirit, humour and integrity. In addition he fulfilled the function of promoter for the “cutting edge” music when no-one else would try.

After countless concerts and festivals he founded Controindicazioni, since 1988 the most important forum for free jazz and european improvisation. Several generations of italian musicians have by now benefited by his actions and example. He’s a founder member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, arguably the most important aggregation in italian jazz today, now reaching worldwide recognition for the whole national scene. Many foreign visitors to Controindicazioni or members of the audiences of the Instabile concerts all over Europe were surprised when they spotted him acting in one of the internationally acclaimed movies by Nanni Moretti or enjoyed his after-hours keyboards playing.

Living Theatre performance, Urbino 1969.

The Mario Schiano Trio performed opposite.

Schiano with sunglasses sitting by the wall.

His career includes concerts and records with all the most important european improvisors: Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Paul Rutherford, Evan Parker, Peter Kowald, Barry Guy, Vyacheslav Ganelin, Maarten Altena; among his early collaborators there are Bruno Tommaso and Giancarlo Schiaffini, while later on he introduced such talents as Massimo Urbani, Eugenio Colombo and Sebi Tramontana, to name but a few ».

Extracted from the “Mario Schiano Discography”,

by Francesco Martinelli, Bandecchi & Vivaldi ed. 2000.

The first edition of this discography was published, in Italian only, in 1996. This expanded edition is in English, updates the recordings to 2000 and, in addition to a straight discographical listing, includes occasional comments from Martinelli and the full text of reviews, taken from publications such as Cadence, Coda, Improjazz, and The wire, even the very occasional one from Down Beat! Sprinkled throughout are a range of fascinating photographs which not only support the text but indicate - as always in these circumstances - the changing fashions, particularly through hair styles. In addition to official recordings there are appendices listing 'other' recordings (tapes, TV, radio broadcasts), a bibliography (largely of record reviews) and an overview essay by Martinelli. Indexes are provided. Altogether, this excellent publication should do much to increase awareness of Mario Schiano for those who have not yet heard him.

Credits:

Label: Edizioni di Cultura Popolare

Catalog#: VPA 103

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Released: 1976

Mario Schiano (as),
Roberto Bellatalla (bass), Lino Liguori (drums)


Tracklisting:


Side 1

1968: Concerto della Statale – 17’00”

Side 2

Really the Blues – 16’00”

Piero Umiliani - Jazz dall'Italia

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How and where does Maestro Piero Umiliani’s career begin?

My story began as the war was ending. It was 1944, I was senebteen years old and Italy was divided in half. The nazis were still in Bologna and the allies had just arrived in Florence. With the americans we played music at all hours. For us, it was freedom in every sense of the word. After having suffered so many years of oppression we could eat as much as we wanted. Compensation for my music consisted of suitcases filled with food for my entire family. We could play and sing to the new freedom.

My first piano lesson was with my aunt, who taught me to play classical pieces. I remember listening to Radio London and the first notes of Duke Ellington at fourteen, it was a dream.
When I was nineteen SIAE gave me the opportunity to write be-bop arrangements of classical jazz pieces. I published these scores on my own label, Omega.
At 24, the Director of the Conservatory in Florence, Cherubini, convinced me to study music saying that if not I would regret it later in life.
It was the end of me.I lost my head for several girls and in the ninth year of the Conservatory, I realized that I was wasting my time and would never become a professional musician. Furthermore, I understood that my passion was not for the classical stuff they had us play at the conservatory, it was for jazz.

In 1952 I moved to Rome to work with Armando Trovajoli, who needed someone to do his arrangements, with whom I began a real friendship.
In 1954 I cut my first record for RCA, called “Dixieland in Naples”.

It’s a record I’m still proud of.
Radio RAI liked it as well, and after a year hired me to work with a Benny Goodman Style quintet.

It continues...

Credits:

JAZZ DALL’ITALIA n.2 : Big Band Blues

Label: OMICRON

Catalog#: LPM 007

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Released: 1967

Big Band with: Piero Umiliani (p, dir, arr),
Oscar Valdambrini (tp), Gianni Basso (ten sax),

Glauco Masetti (alto sax),

Lorenzo Nardini (bar sax), Dino Piana (valves trne),
Franco D’Andrea (p, replace Umiliani in A2, A3, A4, A5),
Giorgio Azzolini (bass), Lionello Bionda (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Big Band Blues – 2’35”
A2) Una Tromba e un Blues – 4’55”
A3) Fast and Blues – 4’05”
A4) Veemente – 3’48”
A5) Dolce ed Ostinato – 4’12

Side B

B1) Spiritual – 2’40”
B2) Big Band Crescendo – 4’15”
B3) Breve Incontro – 3’20”
B4) Blues Waltz – 3’55”
B5) Conversation – 4’50”

Gianluigi Trovesi - Baghèt - The First Album

Gianluigi Trovesi born in Nembro (Bergamo), on January 1st, 1944.
His father, a drum amateur and a metallurgical worker, teaches him to play drums – when he is 15 years old he starts studying and playing clarinetto, so to enter the Nembro Band.
When he is 16, he enters the Musical School of Bergamo to better and more seriously study of clarinetto.

He graduated at Piacenza in 1966 and then he started playing alto sax and clarinet in the “dancing”.
In ’67 he becomes teacher of Music in the secondary schools – he enters the “compositions, armonia, contrappunto and fuga school” with Vittorio Fellegara.
He partecipates, in ‘70/71/72, in Bergamo Jazz Festival playing with the local groups.
In ’73 he enters the Cichellero Big Band and gets in touch with the sax player Giulio Donadio.
From ’74 to ’76 he is a member of the Franco Cerri Quintett, playing tenor sax and clarinet.
In 1976 Giorgio Gaslini “discovers” him and invites him to take part to his Quintett as soprano, alto sax and bass clarinet player.

The 1978 is a great year for him.
In Milano he is winner of the Rai Big Band Competiotion, where he enters – in Imola, at the “1° Europa Jazz”, where he plays with the Gaslini Sextett and as a soloist, in very successfull way – he plays with the International Orchestra conducted by Gaslini – he makes two records with Gaslini sextett, for the label Dischi della Quercia, “Graffiti” and “Free Actions” - with Gaslini, he takes part in the most important national and international Jazz Festival.
The critics consider him as the “1978 revelation”.
He makes and prints him first album “Baghèt” solicited by Giorgio Gaslini.

Credits:

Label: Dischi della Quercia

Catalog#: Q 28008

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Released: 1978
Recorded at “Cinemusic”, Milan on 1978, October 4/5

Gianluigi Trovesi (soprano sax, alto sax, ten sax, bass cl, fl dolce sopranino, launeddas)
Paolo Damiani (bass), Gianni Cazzola (drums)


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Saltarello
A2) Variazioni e Improvvisazioni su un antico saltarello

Side B

B1) Baghèt
B2) Launeddas
B3) Libera improvvisazione su una serie dodecafonica
B4) Studio contrappuntistico

(All composition by Trovesi except Saltarello)


«I played this solo (three variations on a saltarello of 3rd century), on July 1978 in Imola, durino the “1° Europa Jazz Festival”, where I was, at Giorgio Gaslini’s invitation.
And it was some-time later, hearing my performance recording and because of the favourable judgment of critics and public, that I had the idea to make a record. In this record it will take place both my whole Imola performance (in spite of some technical deficiencies) and some trio situations with solo overlaps, these recorded in studio, which I wrote after analyzing my performance, so to reach a better style from the formal, technical and expressive point of view.»

MARIO SCHIANO & GIORGIO GASLINI - HORO Jazz A Confronto 8

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”

GAETANO LIGUORI IDEA TRIO

Credits:

Gaetano Liguori (p), Roberto Del Piano (bass), Filippo Monico (drums)

Label: PDU

Catalog#: Pld. A 6033

Format: LP

Country: Italy

Released: 1975

Cover by Studio Tallarini
Back Cover Photo by Roberto Masotti

Tracklisting:

Side A

1) I Signori della Guerra (G. Liguori)
2) Garabongo (G. Liguori)
3) Don Mario Blues (G. Liguori)


Side B

1) Tarantella del Vibrione (G. Liguori)
2) Inco (G. Liguori)
3) Viva la Cassa del Mezzogiorno (G. Liguori)