Gianluigi Trovesi Trio_Cinque Piccole Storie_1980

I have spoken many times about Gianluigi Trovesi, but his unique sound, his sense of swing, purely European, his particular pleasure for the dynamics, would need more attention and detailed studies of his work.

This is his second album as a leader, always with the trio who recorded Baghèt.

For now, I let the music speak and, if you want, your comments.

Credits:

Gianluigi Trovesi Trio
- Cinque Piccole Storie -

Label: Dischi Della Quercia
Catalog# Q 28010
Format: LP
Country: Italy


Recorded in Milan 1980, July 9, at Studio Barigozzi

Gianluigi Trovesi (alto, soprano sax, small cl, fl, sopranino),
Paolo Damiani (bass, cello),
Gianni Cazzola (drums)

Tracklisting:

Side A

A1) C'era una volta un ballo 7:45
A2) C'era una volta una piccola processione 3:30
A3) C'era una volta un piccolo cammello 7:55

Side B

B1) C'era una strega, c'era una fata 10:55
B2) C'era una volta un circo 8:40

Giorgio Gaslini Quintet - Live at the Public Theater in New York - 1980

On April 1980, invited by the Public Theater of New York, with the collaboration of the italian institute of Culture, the italian pianist and composer Giorgio Gaslini, together with his Quintet, performed the concert which this double album is the live recording of.

Following the New York public's enthusiasm, many important articles were written on the New York Times (Robert Palmer), on the New York Post (Richard M. Sudhalter), on the Down Beat and on the canadian Coda. During the same period, the Giorgio Gaslini Quintet was to be heard at the Columbia University (italian house) too.

The long program of the concert, here four sides recorded, is like a journey through the complex and rich Giorgio Gaslini's musical and poetic world.

It is not only an explosion of creative and instrumental strenth from the five musicians of the
group, it is also the representation of a precious display of an individual originality within the unity of the whole group.

Credits:

Label: Dischi della Quercia

Catalog#: 2Q 28009

Format: LP

Country: Italy
Recorded April 28, 1980

at the Public Theater in New York City

Giorgio Gaslini (p),

Gianluigi Trovesi (alto sax, soprano, bass cl, piccolo),

Gianni Bedori (tenor sax, soprano, ottavino),

Marco Vaggi (bass), Gianni Cazzola (drums)

Tracklisting:

Side 1

Assalto al Castello - 18'12"

Side 2

A) New York Song - 5'36"

B) Swing Low, Sweet Charlie - 6'49"

C) Ballo Popolare sui Navigli - 4'44"

Side 3

Mediterranean Suite - 16'42"

Side 4

A) Ricerca su "Free Actions" - 9'32"

B) Ricerca su "Mexico City Free" - 7'24"

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.»