Gianluigi Trovesi

Nine albums with Gianluigi Trovesi on saxophones and clarinets, recorded between October 1978 and 2004. Only some are under his name. Beside his trio of the late 1970s and his octet of the 1990s, the box gathers his work with a chamber orchestra, in Enrico Rava's Electric Five and Guido Manusardi's sextet, in a mass by Alfredo Impullitti and in the group Asymmetrique. Most first appeared on Soul Note; the trio albums Baghèt and Cinque Piccole Storie, and Nivola, came out on Dischi della Quercia, and according to CAM Jazz the two trio records appear here on CD for the first time.

Baghèt, recorded at Cinemusic in Milan in October 1978 with Paolo Damiani on bass and Gianni Cazzola on drums, has Trovesi on saxophones, bass clarinet, recorder and launeddas, from an old saltarello to a free improvisation on a twelve-tone row. The same trio made Cinque Piccole Storie at Barigozzi Studio on July 9, 1980, five tales that each begin "once upon a time". From G. To G., cut at Barigozzi in May 1992, is the octet, with Pino Minafra on trumpet and didgeridoo, Rudy Migliardi on trombone and tuba, Marco Remondini on cello, two double basses, drums and percussion. The octet's Les Hommes Armés, recorded at Studio 7 in Milan in May 1996, places a piece by Guillaume Dufay and Ellington's Mood Indigo between five pieces titled Tango, Tengo, Tingo, Tongo and T'Ungo, and dedicates Dance For A King to Eric Dolphy. The Village Fair (October 1996) is Manusardi's sextet with Paolo Fresu, Furio Di Castri and Roberto Gatto. Around Small Fairy Tales was taped in Nembro, near Bergamo, in January 1998 with the Orchestra da Camera di Nembro, arranged and conducted by Bruno Tommaso. Electric Five, from September 1994, sets Trovesi beside Rava and two electric guitars on Milestones, Boplicity and La Strada. Impullitti's Missa, recorded in Faenza in May 2000, uses him as a soloist with Fresu, Tino Tracanna, Diana Torto and Pierre Favre.

The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note, CAM Jazz box BXS 1032 from 2014: nine remastered CDs reissuing albums first released between 1979 and 2004.