Grande Orchestra Nazionale Di Jazz (A.M.J.)

Live is the recording of the Grande Orchestra Nazionale Di Jazz, the Italian national jazz orchestra directed by Giorgio Gaslini, in its 1992 concerts. Ten tracks come from a concert in Piazza Santo Stefano in Milan on 22 August 1992, organised by Associazione Musica Oggi, and the last from the Alpheus club in Rome on 4 December of the same year. Soul Note issued the album in 2000. The programme is a survey of Italian jazz writing, each piece by a different composer.

Gaslini's Cose Da Venire, Scritte Nel Vento opens the set, followed by Bruno Tommaso's Attese, Franco D'Andrea's A Little Walk, Marcello Rosa's Tempura, Enrico Pieranunzi's (In)Canto and Enrico Rava's Pour Jean Ives. Between them sit four short Free Bridges, each credited to one, two or three members of the band, and the Rome concert adds Riccardo Luppi's Heavy Dance. Seven arrangers shared the orchestrations, among them Tommaso, Gaslini, Rosa, Mario Raja and Luppi. The personnel includes Stefano Battaglia at the second piano, saxophonists Claudio Fasoli, Roberto Ottaviano and Daniele Cavallanti, bassist Paolino Dalla Porta and percussionist Tiziano Tononi, with Martin Mayes on horn and others. Gaslini wrote the liner notes, translated into English by Warren Blumberg.

This is the Soul Note CD 121349-2, first released in 2000, with more than seventy minutes of music.