Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Giorgio Gaslini born October 22, 1929 in Milan, Italy. He began performing aged 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s, He performed with his own quartet. He was the first Italian musician mentioned as a “new talent” in the Down Beat poll and the first Italian officially invited to a jazz festival in the USA New Orleans 1976-77.
He collaborated with leading American soloists, such as Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry, Roswell Rudd, Max Roach, but also with the Argentinian Gato Barbieri and Frenchman Jean-Luc Ponty. He also adapted the compositions of Albert Ayler and Sun Ra for solo piano, which the Soul Note label issued. He also composed the soundtrack of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1961 La notte (The Night).
From 1991 to 1995, Gaslini composed works for Carlo Actis Dato’s Italian Instabile Orchestra, and was the first to teach jazz courses at the Santa Cecilia Academy of Music in Rome in 1972. In the Seventies he scored ten films between 1970 to 1977.
Pianist, composer and conductor Giorgio Gaslini, who composed symphonic works, operas, and ballets, passed away on July 29, 2014 at 84 in Borgo Val di Taro, Italy in the province of Parma.
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The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
For Musicians Only is an album by Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and Sonny Stitt incorporating bebop influences. Produced by Norman Granz, it was recorded on October 16, 1956 at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, California. It wasn’t released until 1958 on the Verve label. It has been described as the real thing, no pretense.
The story behind this session from Stan Levy’s point of view is that everything was done in one take, no 2nd takes, no overdubbing. It was virtually a live, real bebop session, nothing worked out, just play by the seat of your pants or get off the bandstand. Like it or not, that was the way it was with Bird and those cats, the real thing, no pretense.
The album is known for the front line’s winding, intricate solos. This has led to praise for the back line, particularly bassist Ray Brown, for keeping some semblance of the original tune going behind the solos.
Track List | 42:59- Bebop (Gillespie) ~ 12:48
- Dark Eyes (Traditional) ~ 12:10
- Wee (Allen’s Alley) (Denzil Best, Gillespie) – 8:28
- Lover Come Back to Me (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) ~ 9:33
- Dizzy Gillespie ~ trumpet
- Sonny Stitt ~ alto saxophone
- Stan Getz ~ tenor saxophone
- John Lewis ~ piano
- Herb Ellis ~ guitar
- Ray Brown ~ bass
- Stan Levey ~ drums
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Cosimo Di Ceglie was born October 21, 1913 in Andria, Italy and played with local bands in Andria before joining Herb Flemming’s group in the mid-1930s. He recorded with Piero Rizza and the Orchestra del Circolo Jazz Hot di Milano, as well as under his own name, in the period 1936-1938.
He went on to work with Enzo Ceragioli and Gorni Kramer around 1940. Active during World War II on radio, playing with a six-piece ensemble, he made further recordings under his own name in the late 1940s and into the 1950s. He also played with Adriano Celentano, Kai Hyttinen, and others later in his career.
Guitarist Cosimo Di Ceglie passed away in 1980 in Milan, Italy.
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Ray Linn, born in Chicago, Illinois on October 20, 1920 experienced his first major engagements in the late 1930s playing with Tommy Dorsey, from 1938 to 1941 and Woody Herman until the outbreak of World War II. He would return to play with Herman again several times after the war during the Forties and Fifties.
In the 1940s he spent time playing with several big bands led by Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Boyd Raeburn. Moving to Los Angeles, California in 1945, he worked extensively as a studio musician, in addition to playing with Bob Crosby in the early 1950s.
The Fifties decade would be his final extended tenure with Herman. He spent much of the 1960s playing music for television, including The Lawrence Welk Show.
He recorded eight tunes as a leader in 1946, and full-length albums in 1978 and 1980, the latter of which are Dixieland jazz. Trumpeter Ray Linn passed away in November 1996 in Columbus, Ohio.
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Three Wishes
What Major “Mule” Holley told Pannonica when she asked him what his three wishes were was:
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- “I’d like to have every person I come in contact with understand my true meaning.”
- “I would like to be always comfortable: enough money to allow myself to work if I felt like it, in health and strength..”
- “I would like to be able to repay, or reimburse in some measure, everyone who has helped me progress in my life.”
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