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I'm leaving tomorrow and thanks to these holidays, I've uploaded the whole Italian Jazz Live series on my hard disk, with the intention to share with you, and also to launching a dedicated blog.

yet another jazz blog!

The first serie, recorded in 2006, is already online:

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The next series, will be online when I come back.

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Aldo Romano 4tet - Complete Communion - Tribute to Don Cherry - Live 2010

OK, this is not one of my "usual" vinyl, never re-issued and out of print, in fact this CD has just been published, but in any case, I wanted to share it with you for several reasons.

The first reason is that this CD is not for sale, but this has been distributed only in Italy, with the Musica Jazz magazine.

The second reason, probably more important than the first, is that this CD recording a tribute to one of the greatest poets of all music, Don Cherry.

The "Complete Communion - Desireless" project, has been strongly desired by Aldo Romano and Henri Texier, who have played with him, and offers a point of view of two young "attractive voices" as Géraldine Laurent and Fabrizio Bosso, on the timeless music of Don Cherry.

When Francis Dreyfus heard a recording of this concert, and the previous one at the "Crossroad Jazz Festival 2009" in Santarcangelo, he decided to produce a studio album with the same title, available at the Dreyfus, but that, in the fullest spirit of jazz, has major changes, starting with the length of the tracks, from this LIVE.

The third and last reason is that the brilliant and charming music of Don Cherry, is not remembered, and evaluated, never enough.

I dedicate this post to Pierre

Credits:

Aldo Romano Quartet

“Complete Communion – Desireless”

Label: Musica Jazz

Catalog# MJCD 1229

Format: CD

Country: Italy

Recorded Live at Teatro dell’Osservanza, Imola (BO),

Crossroads Jazz Festival, 2nd May 2010

Fabrizio Bosso (tp), Géraldine Laurent (contralto sax),

Henri Texier (bass), Aldo Romano (drums)

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Part One

Part Two

The Artistry of Nunzio Rotondo - 1959

This is one of the finest Italian jazz records, published for the first time in 1959 by Walter Gürtler for the label Music.

In July of that year, after the album sold out, was reprinted in the "The Modern Jazz" series by Stella label.

In this series were published seven volumes, with previously published recordings on Music, by Bob Cooper, Bud Shank, Basso & Valdambrini and Buddy Collette, all recorded in Italy.

Then, finally, fifty years after, this masterpiece has been reissued on CD for the Japanese label DIW Records. In Italy, no one talks even more than Nunzio Rotondo.

Credits:

first print:
«The Artistry of Nunzio Rotondo»

Label: Music
Catalog# LPM 2076
Format: LP
Country: Italy

second print:
«Nunzio Rotondo - The Modern Jazz vol.6»

Label: Stella Records
Catalog# LPS 6117
Format: LP
Country: Italy

Recorded in Rome, Fonolux Studio, between march and april 1959


Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) Whispering (J. Shonberger) 6'18"
A2) Bag's Groove (M. Jackson) 9'34"
A3) Scrapple from the Apple (C. Parker) 5'02"
Nunzio Rotondo (tp), Leo Cancellieri (p), 

Gino Marinacci (fl, bar sax), Berto Pisano (bass), Gil Cuppini (drums).

Side B

B1) De Concilio (N. Rotondo) 4'14"
B2) Noi e Loro (N. Rotondo) 4'43"
Nunzio Rotondo (tp), Enzo Scoppa (ten sax), 

Raymond Fol (p), Bibi Rovere (bass), Gil Cuppini (drums).

B3) Garineipaulus (N. Rotondo) 4'35"
Nunzio Rotondo (tp), Bibi Rovere (bass), Gil Cuppini (drums).

B4) Epiphone (N. Rotondo) 6'20"
Nunzio Rotondo (tp), Leo Cancellieri (p), Berto Pisano (bass), Gil Cuppini (drums).