The Complex Simplicity of the Blues

[winston pro]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYRnOGyDIvU

Just love it, and i don't even now the name of the sax player...

[Slab Hardcheese]

Sweet! I love how they lay back.

[evan1]

I think Gato Barbieri recorded with this guy.

[winston pro]

Yeah, read something about Gato sitting in with him, but i can't say if it's Gato. Still, not my favorite from the album (La Notte OST), the top for me is Voci Dal Fiume. Not on youtube, though... and still seraching for the name of the sax player... (i don't own the original album... )

[evan1]

Yeah, read something about Gato sitting in with him, but i can't say if it's Gato. Still, not my favorite from the album (La Notte OST), the top for me is Voci Dal Fiume. Not on youtube, though... and still seraching for the name of the sax player... (i don't own the original album... )

The problem is a lot of horn players played with this guy . . . Let me know when you find him !

[winston pro]

Found the guy! His name is Mr. Eraldo Volonté. Here's some info:

Should be unnecessary to mention Eraldo Volonté, given its continued and constant presence on the development of Italian jazz, but unfortunately it's not so, since he is still "unknown" to most of you.

Eraldo Volonté is a veteran of italian jazz: he is one of those characters that are always seen wherever there is good jazz to play or listen to.
With a difference from many pioneers, however, Volonté has never lost even a shred of his enthusiasm, even if he has been playing professionally for more than a quarter of a century and like almost all of is colleagues, in Italy, has had to adapt and be part of an infinite number of bands playing all types of music.
His enthusiasm has kept him young, alive, very alert towards all that happens around him, and it has allowed him to continuously perfect himself, and to refresh his own stile : so much so that today this Milanese saxophone player can easily boast to still be one of the top musicians - that is one of the most modern, and most up to date - of italian jazz.

Among his important records, milestones in the maturity of the Italian jazz, I like to remember, in addition to this "My Point of View" (1963) with Renato Sellani, Giorgio Azzolini e Lionello Bionda, "Jazz [now] in Italy" (1966) with Dino Piana, Franco D'Andrea, Giovanni Tommaso and Franco Tonani and the best "Free and Loose" (1968) with Oscar Valdambrini, still Piana and Azzolini, and Franco Manzecchi.

Sadly, i can't find his albums anywhere...