Dino Betti Van Der Noot

CD version. Here Comes Springtime is the first of the two albums that the Milanese composer and bandleader Dino Betti van der Noot made for Soul Note, a set of five of his own pieces written for a jazz orchestra of more than twenty players. It was recorded in Milan in 1985 and released the following year, when USA Today placed it third among its records of the year, as the Jazzitalia biography of the composer records. Betti van der Noot composed, arranged and conducted everything, and produced the session himself.

The session was recorded and mixed by Paolo Lovat at Jingle Machine Studios in Milan, with vibraphonist Gianni Farè as co-producer and Giovanni Bonandrini as executive producer. The orchestra mixes Italian and foreign players. The soloists Jazzitalia names include trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti, alto and soprano saxophonist Donald Harrison, Gianluigi Trovesi on alto saxophone and clarinets, baritone saxophonist Hugo Heredia, pianist Mitchel Forman and bassist Bob Cunningham, with Daniel Humair on drums, Luis Agudo on percussion, a cellist and the voice of Linda Wesley among five trumpets, four trombones and six reeds. The title piece is the longest, at almost eleven minutes, and So Far Away From You runs past nine. October's Dream / Caro Arrigo (Dear Arrigo) / October's Dream frames a second theme inside the first, and the opener carries an Italian title, Eterni Sono Gli Atti D'amore, with its English version, Acts Of Love Are Forever. Nat Hentoff wrote the liner notes. The next album, They Cannot Know, recorded in 1986, won the Musica Jazz prize as Italian album of the year in 1987.

Soul Note CD 121149-2 of the album first issued in 1986 as SN 1149, with the five pieces of the original LP.