Giorgio Gaslini
Giorgio Gaslini (1929-2014) was an Italian jazz pianist, composer and conductor, born in Milan. He recorded with his own trio at sixteen and led a quartet through the 1950s and 1960s, while also writing symphonic works, operas and ballets. He is remembered for opening Italian jazz to the free players of the 1960s and for scoring Michelangelo Antonioni's La notte (1961). Giorgio Gaslini made Nuovi Sentimenti (1966) with Don Cherry, Steve Lacy and Gato Barbieri, and Fabbrica occupata (1974) with Jean-Luc Ponty.
Plexiglas: Songs & Guitar Works
Songs and guitar works by Giorgio Gaslini: the Sei interludi for voice and guitar (1999), four instrumental pieces and fifteen songs from his Songbook, with guitarist Andrea Monarda, soprano Ludmila Ignatova and percussionist Marco Scazzetta.
Sprint (Balletto Sinfonico)
Giorgio Gaslini's symphonic ballet Sprint (1998), recorded live at the Teatro Sociale of Rovigo in October 1998 by the theatre's orchestra with the Conservatorio F. Venezze, conducted by Alberto Martelli.
Storie Di Sto
Four musical fables by Giorgio Gaslini on texts by Sergio Tofano, for narrators, soprano, small choir and chamber ensemble, performed by the Icarus Ensemble under Gaslini, recorded in Reggio Emilia in May 1997.
Piano Sonata Décollage / Interludio: Piano Improvisations / Ritual / Peintres Au Café-Sonnant
Live concert of Giorgio Gaslini's piano music at the Conservatorio Paganini, Genoa, 13 November 2008: the Décollage sonatas (Alfonso Alberti), Ritual and Peintres au Café-Sonnant (Duo Biondi-Brunialti, Maurizio Ben Omar, percussion), and improvisations by Gaslini.
Fonte Funda Suite - La Notte
Giorgio Gaslini Chamber Trio (Gaslini, piano; Roberto Bonati, bass; Roberto Dani, drums) live at Teatro Dal Verme, Milan, February 29, 2008: the Fonte Funda Suite for Antonioni and, with Riccardo Luppi (tenor sax), a new version of La Notte.
Urban Griot
Giorgio Gaslini and the Proxima Centauri Orchestra live: the Urban Griot suite, Guantanamera and Because The Night (Sassuolo, June 18, 2002) and Odissey (Lecco, September 21, 2001). Released by Soul Note in 2003.
Sacred Concert / Jazz Te Deum
Giorgio Gaslini's Sacred Concert and three-part Jazz Te Deum, recorded live on June 26-27, 2000 in Santa Maria di Betlem, Sassari, with the Orchestra Jazz della Sardegna, the Coro Polifonico Santa Cecilia and trumpet soloist Paolo Fresu.
Mister O - Jazz Opera
Giorgio Gaslini's jazz opera on the Othello story, text by Vittorio Franchini, with Arturo Testa, Bernardo Lanzetti and others, three rappers and the Grande Orchestra Jazz conducted by Gaslini. Recorded at Logic Studio, Milan, July 1-2, 1996.
Tiziana Ghiglioni Sings Gaslini
Tiziana Ghiglioni (voice) sings songs by Giorgio Gaslini, who arranges and conducts a string ensemble with harp, bass and drums. Recorded at Mu Rec Studio, Milan, January 9-12 and February 1-6, 1995.
Lampi = Lightnings
Giorgio Gaslini Globo Quartet (Gaslini piano, Daniele Di Gregorio vibraphone and marimba, Roberto Bonati bass, Giampiero Prina drums) with Moe-Moe Yee on Burmese harp, recorded at Mu Rec Studio, Milan, January 11-15, 1994.
Multipli
Giorgio Gaslini Quintet with Roberto Ottaviano and Claudio Fasoli (saxophones), Bruno Tommaso (bass) and Giampiero Prina (drums), recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on October 6-7, 1987. Seven Gaslini pieces and Jelly Roll Morton's Chicago Breakdown.
Schumann Reflections (LP)
Giorgio Gaslini's trio album alternating the thirteen pieces of Schumann's Kinderszenen with four movements of his own Schumann Reflections, with Piero Leveratto (bass) and Paolo Pellegatti (drums), recorded at Barigozzi Studio, Milan, on July 6 and 7, 1984.
Rivelazioni Di Un Maniaco Sessuale Al Capo Della Squadra Mobile
** First ever vinyl reissue, Yellow vinyl. expanded Edition ** Revelations of a Sex Maniac to the Chief of the Mobile Team" is a 1972 crime film directed by RobertoBianchi Montero, director of many films belonging especially to the western and erotic genre. The soundtrack is here entrusted to the well-known pianist, arranger and composer Giorgio Gaslini (1929-2014) the Italian musician who's known to most for his avant jazz piano work, but who also gave the world some pretty great soundtracks to…
Bali
** First ever vinyl pressing, orange vinyl ** Bali is a 1970 movie directed by Ugo Liberatore with leading actors Laura Antonelli and John Steiner; the film belongs to those year's exotic/erotic popular genre, and benefits of a soundtrack composed and directed by pianist, composer and arranger Giorgio Gaslini, soon to be a collaborator of Dario Argento for the music of “Le Cinque Giornate” (1973) and “Profondo Rosso” (1975).The "Bali" soundtrack has two distinct souls. The first, corresponding t…
Un Amore
* Edition of 300 * Quartet Records releases CD premiere of Giorgio Gaslini masterpiece! Based on the novel by Dino Buzzati, Un amore (1965) focuses on architect Antonio Dorigo and his relationship to four women. Though he is already about fifty, his elderly mother still treats him like a child. Once he meets Laide, a Bohemian girl, Antonio’s life turns upside down and he is ready to break up his current relationship in favor of a fling with a strange, unreliable girl…
Un Amore was only Giorgio G…
Le Sorelle
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock * Expanded CD debut of passionate Giorgio Gaslini score written for Roberto Malenotti’s Le sorelle, a lesbian soft-core film starring Nathalie Delon and Susan Strasberg. Martha (Strasberg) and Diana (Delon) are two sisters who had a passionate affair in the past which lead to their break-up. Both of them had gotten married, but her recent divorce makes Diana reconsider her decision. After a nervous breakdown during an international conference, she travels home to vis…
La Pacifista
* Edition of 500. 2020 Stock. Last Copy * Expanded CD debut of Giorgio Gaslini jazz score written for Miklós Jancsó’s politically charged film La pacifista (1970), starring Monica Vitti. Barbara is a reporter who is collecting sound bites at a political rally, but gets attacked by right-wing activists who wreck her car and ruin her gear. The experience takes a toll on the woman, who gets nervous in open spaces and notices that one of the attackers is always following her. A confrontation at the …
Four Pieces
**Original 1982 vinyl edition of the album. Few copies available** Four Pieces (recorder in November 1981) documents a long lost studio collaboration between pianist Giorgio Gaslini and Anthony Braxton. Alto and Soprano Saxophone and Piano, beautifully together in a set of free improvisations – really letting us hear the imagination that drives the duo. Two real masters of free music - the two exchanging lines that race beyond personality on an extended version of Braxton’s “Composition 191” an…
Skies Of China
**Original 1985 vinyl edition of the album. Few copies available** What emerges from Giorgio Gaslini’s various suites is a happy explorer, recalling worldly journeys and launching musical adventures. He was the first Italian jazz musician to play in India and China and the result of each journey was an extended suite. Gaslini’s own language that emerges triumphant, a fondness for floating clusters and fractured boppish themes (his writing can hint at influences from Monk to Schoenberg, George R…
Murales - Giorgio Gaslini Quartetto Live
**Original 1976 vinyl edition of the album. Few copies available** Recorded live at Teatro Delle Arti in Roma, on January 5th, 1976, and released on his own Dischi Della Quercia (like many creative musicians in the ‘70s, Gaslini launched his own record label, both to document his own work and that of his associates) the same year, it is one of the Giorgio Gaslini's most representative works of his career in the 70's. An adventurous album, with bassist Bruno Tommaso and drummer Andrea Centazzo n…
La Notte
Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 masterpiece La Notte is an atmospheric and enthralling movie starring the great Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti and is the second entry in his famous "alienation trilogy" the central film of a trilogy beginning with L'Avventura (1960) and ending withL'Eclisse (1962). Antonioni's composer-of-choice for the first and the third movies was Giovanni Fusco, however, since La Notte was shot in Milan, Antonioni's initial idea was to hire a native compos…
Antonioni suoni del silenzio
Quartet Records, Gruppo Sugar and Cinevox are proud to present an exclusive four disc box set featuring music from the classics films of Michelangelo Antonioni - featuring music by Giovanni Fusco (L’avventura, L’eclisse, Il deserto rosso) and Giorgio Gaslini (La notte).
Antonioni: Suoni del Silenzio includes four CDs for four films from the director’s early Italian masterpieces commonly referred to as the “Lack of Communication Cinema.” The series begins with L’avventura, the harrowing t…
Giorgio Gaslini - Complete Black Saint & Soul Note collection
Cam Jazz, the company behind the great series of Black Saint/Soul Note reissues, presents the first release in a new line – the complete works by artists on the Italian label Dischi Della Quercia. The inaugural set presents the complete label output from famed Italian pianist Giorgio Gaslini and includes eleven albums that have been unavailable in the US until now. Each is presented in a slipcase with the original album artwork and housed in a sturdy box. Pianist, composer, conductor and …