Gianni Oddi

Gianni Oddi is an Italian saxophonist and arranger, born in Genoa in 1946. After studying piano at the Genoa conservatory he moved to Rome in the early 1970s, where he worked for RCA Italiana as a session player and arranger. He recorded a series of instrumental albums under his own name for RCA from 1973, among them Style (1974). Oddi played on Ennio Morricone's recording sessions and joined the RAI orchestra in Rome in the late 1970s as a saxophonist. With Gianni Dell'Orso he composed and arranged the score for Gianni Proia's 1976 film Mondo di notte oggi.