Giorgio Gaslini

On February 29, 2008, at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, Giorgio Gaslini gave a concert in two halves devoted to Michelangelo Antonioni. With his Giorgio Gaslini Chamber Trio, bassist Roberto Bonati and drummer Roberto Dani, he played the Fonte Funda Suite, dedicated to the director. Joined by tenor saxophonist Riccardo Luppi, the quartet then played a contemporary version of Gaslini's own music for Antonioni's La Notte, the film set in early 1960s Milan. Soul Note released the concert that year.

The suite takes up the first seven tracks: Sfere Rotanti, Angoli, Glis-Gam and Interactions, separated by three sections titled Fonte Funda. The ten parts of La Notte follow, from Quartetto Sotto Le Stelle and Voci Dal Fiume through Notturno Blues, Valzer Lento, Country Club and Blues All'Alba to Lettura Della Lettera and a Finale. Rockit's 2009 review recalls that Gaslini wrote the film's music and appears on screen. It hears the suite as the half closer to the film's texture, a dry, at times hermetic jazz of small clusters of notes. La Notte it finds warmer and more popular, moving between blues and a light funk groove. The reviewer notes that Gaslini takes up the pieces heard within the film's action, here and there altering their structure from the screen version. Luigi Onori wrote the Italian liner notes, translated into English by Warren Blumberg, and the recording was mastered at Wizard Studio in Merlino.

Soul Note CD 121520-2, first released in 2008.