THE RISE OF DOLCEVITA

JAZZ IN ITALY IN THE 50s

The Rise of Dolce Vita - Roman New Orleans Jazz Band, Benny Goodman Sextet, Sistina Street Swingers, Bricktop,per l'inizio della Dolce Vita, nel CD appaiono due gruppi tra i più attivi a Roma in quegli anni: la prima New Orleans Jazz Band che nel 2009 festeggia il suo sessantesimo anniversario ed i Sistina Street Swingers, un trio con Carlo Loffredo, Gilberto Cuppini ed Ettore Crisostomi. Parte importante di questa compilation, sono due documenti sonori: cinque brani di un concerto - inedito - che Benny Goodman diede a Roma nel 1950 e sei brani di quell'eccezionale personaggio che è stata Bricktop della quale, prima d'ora, non si era mai ascoltata la voce. E' l'unica registrazione che fece Bricktop nel corso della sua lunga vita.

To the rise of Dolce Vita in Rome has contributed with no doubts the jazz music, particularly two groups very active in Rome on those years: the first New Orleans Jazz Band that has celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in 2009 and The Sistina Street Swungers, a Trio with Carlo Loffredo, Gilberto Cuppini and Ettore Crisostomi.
To complete thie compilation, are two important documents: part of an inedited concert of Benny Goodman in Rome in 1950 and six standards by that extraordinary peronality called Bricktop. It is the first time that we can listen to her voic. These songs are the only recording of Bricktop throughout the course of her long life.

 

The Rise of Dolce Vita - Roman New Orleans Jazz Band, Benny Goodman Sextet, Sistina Street Swingers, Bricktop
codice: RJR CD 016

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CD: ASCOLTA LA MUSICA!  LISTEN TO THE MUSIC!

 

Giovanni Borghi, tp; Luciano Fineschi, tbn; Marcello Riccio, cl; Ivan Vandor, ss; Giorgio Zinzi, p; Bruno Perris, bj; Pino Liberati, tu; Peppino D’Intino, dr.

Rome, March 9, 1950

155699 Canal Street Blues (Joe Oliver) 155700 Ja-Da (Bob Carleton)

155701 Baby Won’t You Please Come Home? (CharleWarfield-Clarence Williams)

155702 Royal Garden Blues (Spencer Williams)

155703 Sergio’s Blues (Luciano Fineschi)

Benny Goodman Sextet Roy Eldridge, tp; Zoot Sims, tens; Benny Goodman, cl; Dick Hyman, p; Jean “Toots” Thielemans, g, mouth arpa; Charlie Short, sb; Ed Shaughnessy, dr; Nancy Reed, voc

Rome, May 6, 1950

Air Mail Special (Good Enough to Keep) (Benny Goodman)

Body And Soul (Johnny Green- Ed Heyman-Robert Sauer-Frank Heyton)

After You’ve Gone (Turner Layton- Henry Creamer)

ROCKIN’ CHAIR (Hoagy Carmichael)

I Would Do Anything For You (Claude Hopkins-Alex Hill) NR, voc

Sistina Street Swingers Ettore Crisostomi, p-arr; Carlo Loffredo, sb; Gilberto Cuppini, dr.

Milan, July 8, 1952

CB 13186 Blue Moon (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)

CB 13187 Don’t Blame Me (Jimmy McHugh-Dorothy Fields)

CB 13188 Out of Nowhere (Johnny Green- Ed Heyman)

CB 13189 Ballin’ the Jack (Chris Smith – Jim Burris)

CB 13190 I Can’t Get Started (Vernon Duke – Ira Gershwin)

CB 13191 The Blacksmith Blues (Jimmy Holmes)


Bricktop, voc with piano acc.

Rome, 1955

I’M A LITTLE BLACKBIRD LOOKING FOR A BLUE BIRD (George Meyer - Arthur Johnston)

September Song (Kurt Weill – Maxwell Anderson)

Just One of those Things (Cole Porter)

All Right BABY WITH ME (Traditional)

Where or When (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)

MISS OTIS REGRETS (Cole Porter)

 

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