TROVESI - MANGELSDORFF DUO "GENOVA 1982"

Gianluigi Trovesi, clarinets
Albert Mangelsdorff, trombone

Concerto tenuto da "Albert Mangelsdorff e Gianluigi Trovesi" (solos and duos)
at the occaison of the 5° "Estate Jazz" a Villa Imperiale on July 9, 1982.

SCHIANO - KOWALD - TROVESI - LOVENS - MALFATTI - MINAFRA "BENEFIT CONCERT" (SPLASCH, 1989)

Mario Schiano, alto saxophone
Gianluigi Trovesi, bass clarinet, alto clarinet, piccolo flute
Pino Minafra, trumpet, fluegelhorn, vocals
Radu Malfatti, trombone
Peter Kowald, double bass
Paul Lovens, drums


1. A     05:12
2. B     04:12
3. C     03:03
4. D     07:13
5. E     10:22
6. F     06:14
7. G (Lover Man) 02:56

Recorded on March 10, 1989 at the Colosseo Theatre, Roma, Italy during the International "Controindicazioni 3" Festival.

SPLASC(H) HP 20
SPLASC(H) CDHP 20.2

Note: Benefit concert for the repurchase of the pendulum of Mr. Foucault.

PETER KOWALD / GIANLUIGI TROVESI / A.R. PENCK ‎– FREE JAZZ - KONZERT IN DER KUNSTHALLE, BERN (MUSIC CORPORATION, 1981)

A. Kowald Trio I
B. Kowald Trio I

Peter Kowald, bass
Gianluigi Trovesi, alto saxophone, clarinet
A.R. Penck, piano, drums


Recorded: Friday August 14, 1981

Music Corporation ‎– LP 30-771

Vinyl Rip

Dean - Trovesi Double Quartet - Freedom in Jazz

Following up the numerous Elton Dean postings, here is a set with a mixed British-Italian combo recorded in Rome in late 2000. Three long pieces with some very lively and dynamic playing from this group. Fairly late in Elton Dean's career, but full energy is still in abundance. A very nice set.

Dean - Trovesi Double Quartet - Freedom in Jazz

1. In Time ... No Time ... Ad lib
2. Boundaries/Basho
3. Baghet/Itzaroma

Elton Dean - alto sax and saxello
Gianluigi Trovesi - alto sax and clarinet
Jim Dvorak - pocket trumpet
Massimo Greco - trombone
Paul Rogers - bass
Marco Micheli - bass
Mark Sanders - drums
Fulvio Maras - percussion

Recorded in hall B at the Centre for Radio Productions, Rome, 21-22 December 2000

Thanks again to James Manion for files and scans.

Damiani Opus Music Ensemble-Flashback 1983 (izmez-polis,lp 26002)'

Here's a lovely little known album , by Paolo Damiani's Flashback ensemble,the stated intentions of which being to investigate the similarities/differences between Mediterranean folk music and Jazz.

A nexus of free Improv/Jazz and Italian folk idioms is' now common place .. mostly through the work of Gianluigi Trovesi, who's album 'Dances' on red records in 1985 proved to be a breakthrough  album in the vein, Paolo Damiani was also the bassist in that trio, and has played with Trovesi periodically since...both have played regularly with the Italian Instabile Orchestra.

although perhaps only intermittently successful in its stated aims,as attempts at genuine syntheses of this nature... often are the disjunctions and failure are as interesting if not more so than the syntheses.

Being a - Don Cherry-Albert Ayler,and so called world music Fanatic i fully appreciate the attempt and have always been drawn to such endeavors..

A beautiful , vibrant spirited performance which manages to come across , despite the harsh slightly glassy quality of the sound on this recording.

Other than Fresu and Schiaffini, the other performers here are unknown quantities to me,and the only other record i know well on this label is Tony Oxley's 1986 album Live at Rocella Jonica .which has been reissued on CD.
Damiani ..appears to have been prolific in the intervening years ,making records for Egea, and Splasch among others.

BTW, another Stunning example of tenuous syntheses of Free Jazz and in this case Sicilian polyphonic traditional vocal music is "New Village on the left" by Marcello Melis,an even earlier example.

for full details including personnel  click on the cover scans
Enjoy!!!

Gruppo Immediato - Live in Lovere '79

Some of the best Italian musicians gathered in an extemporaneous
group (immediato) that hasn't left any official recording.

Rec. live in Lovere, Italy, on June 17, 1979 (mix recording)

Gianluigi Trovesi,alto sax & bass clarinet
Eugenio Colombo,alto sax & flute
Giancarlo Schiaffini,trombone
Martin Joseph,piano
Paolo Damiani,bass
Michele Iannacone/Gianni Cazzola,drums

1. Collective Improvisation + Intro (05:49)
2. P.Damiani Composition (15:03)
3. E.Colombo Composition (10:01)
4. G.Schiaffini Composition (15:35)
5. G.Trovesi Composition (11:58)

Total Time 58:29

excerpt from track #2

Giorgio Gaslini Quintet + RAI Orchestra - Live in Milan '80

One of the best line-up ever led by Giorgio Gaslini, officially
documented in the OOP Live at the Public Theater in New York
(Dischi della Quercia - 2Q 28009).

Rec. live at "Conservatorio G.Verdi", Milan, Italy, on February 13,
1980 (radio broadcast)

Giorgio Gaslini,piano,composer,conductor
Gianluigi Trovesi,alto & soprano sax,bass clarinet
Gianni Bedori,tenor & soprano sax
Marco Vaggi,bass
Gianni Cazzola,drums
+
(1-5) RAI Orchestra

1. Afro (06:10)
2. Ellingtoniana [Day Dream/Don't Get Around Much Anymore] (12:54)
3. Parkeriana [Lover Man] (07:13)
4. Jopliniana [Stoptime Rag] (02:22)
5. Monkiana [Ruby, My Dear/'Round Midnight/Let's Call This/
Straight No Chaser] (08:45)
6. Assalto Al Castello (19:55)
7. Swing Low, Sweet Charlie (07:35)
8. Mexico City Free (08:06)

Total Time 1:13:04

Dean-Trovesi Double Quartet - Freedom in Jazz (MJCD 1142)

To celebrate the historical recording "Free Jazz" by Ornette Coleman's
Double Quartet the Italian magazine Musica Jazz co-produced with
National Radio III Channel a special project: a double quartet, jointly
led by G.Trovesi and E.Dean, was recorded live in Rome (exactly forty
years after the historical recording) in a tribute to the Free Jazz manifesto.
The CD was covermounted with the magazine July 2001 issue.

Recorded live & mixed at "Sala B del Centro di Produzione Radiofonia
di via Asiago", Rome, Italy, on December 21-22, 2000

Elton Dean,alto sax & saxello
Gianluigi Trovesi,alto sax & clarinet
Jim Dvorak,pocket trumpet
Massimo Greco,trumpet
Paul Rogers,bass
Marco Micheli,bass
Mark Sanders,drums
Fulvio Maras,percussion

1. In Time...No Time...Ad Lib [G.Trovesi] (26:28)
2. Boundaries / Basho (32:04)
2a Boundaries [E.Dean] (20:00)
2b Basho [E.Dean] (12:04)
3. Baghèt / Itzaroma (08:35)
3a Baghèt [G.Trovesi] (04:00)
3b Itzaroma [E.Dean] (04:35)

Total Time 1:07:08