Jazz (Now) In Italy

Sanremo Jazz Festival, March '66: Franco D'Andrea's piano trio with Giorgio Azzolini and Franco Tonani are playing. An excellent trio that in this record is joined by Eraldo Volontè and Dino Piana. One of the greatest examples of what we could call "Italian Jazz", if there's ever been such thing.

Volontè is a musician of merit, that deeply "feels" jazz and has a style of his own. His "suonar moderno" (modern play) has never been forced, and he is no longer the musician that must be à la page "at any cost", because sooner or later it would come out in the open.