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Armando Trovaioli E La Sua Orchestra
"The Beat Generation"
Armando Trovajoli's long-playing record, "The Beat Generation," recorded in 1960 for RCA, can be considered a manifesto of cool jazz in Italy and a testament to the extraordinary level of musicians and composer/arrangers who created it. It traces the history of the formation of the orchestra that Trovajoli had envisioned and directed from 1956 to 1959. It also highlights the role played by the arrangers Trovajoli employed, particularly well-known American composers who spent varying periods in Italy on scholarships dedicated to writing contemporary music, but who enjoyed immersing themselves in the Italian jazz scene, contributing significantly to its musical growth. On the record, alongside Trovajoli, we find Bill Holman, Bill Russo, and Bill Smith, representatives of a jazz that was sometimes difficult to grasp because it often bordered on classical and modern music, experimental and avant-garde. It was a type of jazz where refined orchestral writing utilized the fundamental techniques of written traditional music: counterpoint, canon, fugue, but which, at the same time, in the arrangements for this orchestra, maintained the strength, energy, and impact characteristic of a true big band. The recording fulfills Trovajoli's aspirations to be not only a spectator but a full-fledged author and actor in this jazz. ... -- Amazon
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Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013) was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects, including one segment of Boccaccio '70. Trovajoli was also the author of several Italian musicals: among them, Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola. ...
After graduating from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1948), Trovajoli was entrusted by RAI with the direction of a pop music orchestra, set with 12 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 horn, harp, vibraphone, electric guitar, bass, drums and the piano (played by Trovajoli himself). In 1952–53 he collaborated with Piero Piccioni in Eclipse, a weekly musical broadcast in which the orchestra is directed alternately by the two composers, in a style extremely refined and sophisticated, very different from the music of radio orchestras at that time.
Together with Goffredo Petrassi, Trovajoli composed the score of Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1949). In 1951, Trovajoli was invited by Dino De Laurentiis to write music for Anna, a film directed by Alberto Lattuada, particularly the song El Negro Zumbón, which became an international success. Inspired by tropical rhythms, in the film it was lip synced and danced by Silvana Mangano, with the actual vocal performance by Flo Sandon's.
After that, Trovajoli wrote soundtracks for directors such as Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola. He composed a total of over 300 scores, with his most popular song being "L'amore Dice Ciao" from the 1968 film The Libertine. ... -- Wikipedia
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